Chap. 277.-An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 3 of the act
entitled an act for the protection of fish in Washington county, Vir-
ginia, approved March 8th, 1894, as amended and re-enacted by an act
approved March 14th, 1910.

Approved March 14, 1912.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
sections two and three of an act entitled an act for the protection
of fish in Washington county, approved March eighth, eighteen
hundred and ninety-four, as amended and re-enacted by an act
approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred and ten, be amend-
ed and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§2. It shall be unlawful for any person to take or catch fish
by means of a trap, dip net, seine, harpoon, grab hook, or any
device except a hook and line, in any of said rivers, streams or
water, and it shall be lawful to catch minnows for bait by means
of a hand net. )

§3. It shall be unlawful for any person, within four years
after the United States fish commission shall have placed Cali-
fornia trout or other fish in the south or middle fork of Holston
river, in Washington county, for the purpose of stocking same,
to take or catch from such stream, or destroy in any way any of
said fish therein.