CHAP. 201.—An ACT to prohibit the taking or removing of fish, except
such as are excepted, from the water courses of the county of
Augusta.

Approved March 18, 1912.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
it shall be unlawful for any person to take or remove any fish
from the water courses of Augusta county, by means of any trap,
wire net, hoop net, seine, dull, spear, trot line, or by means of
dynamite or lime, or by any other means, except by hook and
line, in the fully accepted sense of angling.

2. Minnows, mud-toms, chubs and other non-game species,
which are commonly used for bait, shall be excepted from the
provisions of this act.

3. That any person so violating this statute shall be subject
to a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars, or more than fifty
dollars, or to be imprisoned not less than ten or more than thirty
days, or both.

4, That it shall be the duty of any citizen who may see, or
have personal knowledge of any violation of this act, to report
the same immediately to the proper authorities.

5. That any person who shall fail to report a known violation
of this statute shall be deemed an accessory, and may be sub-
jected to the same fine, or imprisonment, or both.

6. That any person reporting a violation of this act, and by
his testimony securing the arrest and conviction of the accused,
shall receive one-half of the fine collected as a result of the
arrest and conviction.

7. That section twenty-one hundred and five of the Code of
Virginia, providing for suitable fish-ladders in the streams o1
Virginia, be incorporated in this act.

8. That all previous acts affecting the protection of fish in
the county of Augusta be, and the same are hereby, repealed,
with the exception of section twenty-one hundred and five of the
Code of Virginia.

9. This act shall be in force from its passage.