CHaP. 302.—An ACT to amend and re-enact subsection 7 of section 2086
of the Code of Virginia, ds amended and re-enacted by an act approved
February 18, 1890, by an act approved March 3, 1898, by an act ap-
proved March 1, 1900, by an act approved March 14, 1902, by an act
approved May 5, 1903, and by an act approved March 14, 1908; and to
repeal the following sections of the Code of Virginia, and the follow-
ing acts of the general assembly of Virginia, and all acts or parts of
acts in conflict with this act; sections 2083, 2084, 2085, 2087, 2096, 2100,
2102; an act entitled an act to prohibit the catching of blue fish in the
waters of this commonwealth by non-residents of this State; to pro-
hibit the employment of vessels owned by non-residents for such fish-
ing; to require a license tax on residents for such blue fishing, and to
impose a penalty for the violation of this act, approved May 5, 1903;
an act entitled an act to prohibit the use of pound nets and purse nets
in the waters of James and Chickahominy rivers below tide water, ap-
proved May 16, 1887, as amended by act approved March 1, 1888; an
act entitled an act to provide for setting apart and designating crab-
bing grounds in the waters of the commonwealth, approved February 3,
1900; an act entitled an act to provide clamming grounds in the waters
of this State, approved March 8, 1694; by an act approved March 14,
1910.

Approved March 14, 1912.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
subsection seven of section two thousand and eighty-six of the
Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act ap-
proved February eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, by
act approved March third, eightcen hundred and ninety-eight,
by act approved March first, nineteen hundred, by act approved
March fourteenth, nineteen hundred and two, by act approved
May fifth, nineteen hundred and three, and by act approved
March fourteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, and by act ap-
proved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred and ten, be further
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Subsection 7. It shall be unlawful to set or fish any pound
net within York river, Poquosin river, Pack river, James river,
Chickahominy river, Elizabeth river or Nansemond river, or any
of the tributaries thereof, or to set pound nets within one mile
from either side of the mouth of the Lynnhaven river, or between
the hours of sunset and sunrise, during any night to set or fish
any gill net, or crab line in any waters of Lynnhaven river above
bottoms leased or rented to another person or persons for the
purpose of planting oysters; and any and all pound net stakvs
driven in the rivers or their tributaries allowed by law shall be
withdrawn by the owner when no longer in actual use for fishing
purposes.

No person shall plant oysters, or place stakes or other ob-
structions in Chesapeake bay within half mile of the shore, be-
tween Cape Henry and the Norfolk county line, where a seine is
licensed to be laid out, set or hauled, without the consent of the
riparian owner. Nor shall any person operate any device for
taking clams within three quarters (31) of a mile of the shore
lying between Lynnhaven inlet and Willougby Spit pier in Nor-
folk county.