Chap. 113.—An ACT to amend an act approved January 30, 1900, to prohibit
the killing of fish in Clinch river, in the county of Russell. with cyna-
mite or other explosives, and to prescribe a punishment therefor.

Approved March 10, 1910.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act
approved January thirty, nineteen hundred, to prohibit the killing of
fish in Clinch river, in the county of Russell, with dynamite or other ex-
plosives, and to prescribe a punishment therefor, be amended and_re-
enacted so as to read as follows:

$1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That it shall
be unlawful for any person to kill fish in Clineh river, in the county of
Russell, by throwing dynamite or other explosives or poisons in said
Tiver, and, upon conviction thereof, such person shall be fined one hun-
dred dollars and shall be confined in the jail of said county not exceeding
twelve months, and may be required to work in the chain gang until said
fine and costs of prosecution are paid. One-half of said fine, when col-
lected, shall go to the informer. |

82. All acts and parts of acts relating to the killingof fish in Clinch
river, in said county, in conflict with this act, are hereby repealed.
§3. Owing to the fact that people are continuously dynamiting the
fish in said river, which is very destructive to the fish by destroying the
minnows and small fish as well] as the large ones, and emergency existing,
this act shall take effect from its passage.