CHAP. 348.—An ACT to prevent the destruction of wild game within cer-
tain territory lying within the boundaries of the Massanutten pur-
chase area, in the State of Virginia, within the county of Shenandoah,
and to provide a penalty therefor. (H. B. 562.)

Approved March 20, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to hunt, pursue,
kill, or destroy in any way, any wild game or to enter with dog
or gun or both with the intent to hunt, kill, pursue, destroy
any wild game upon any of those tracts of land in Shenandoah
county in what is known as the Massanutten purchase area to
which the government of the United States of America has
acquired the legal title under the Week’s law for the acquisition
of lands upon the head waters of navigable streams, pa
March the first, nineteen hundred and eleven, and the amend-
ments thereto, from the Warren county line at the north end of
the Massanutten mountain range, extending in a general south-
ernly direction to the boundary line between the counties of
Rockingham and Shenandoah and limited to mountain lands
and wood lands lying between the north fork of the Shenandoah
river on the west and the boundary line between the counties
of Page and Shenandoah on the east, until the first day of
August, nineteen hundred and twenty-one.

2. And it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to
hunt, pursue, kill, or destroy, or to enter with dog or gun or
both with the intent to hunt, pursue, kill or destroy any wild
game upon any other tract of land in Shenandoah county, in
what is known as the Massanutten purchase area, after the said
government of the United States of America shall have acquired
the legal title thereto under the Week’s law for the acquisition
of lands on the head waters of navigable streams, passed March
the first, nineteen hundred and eleven, and the amendments
thereto, from the Warren county line at the north end of the
Massanutten mountain range, extending in a general southernly
direction to the boundary line between the counties of Rocking-
ham and Shenandoah and limited to mountain lands and wood
lands lying between the north fork of the Shenandoah river on
the west and the boundary line between Page and Shenandoah
counties on the east, until the first day of August, nineteen hun-
dred and twenty-one.

3. Any person violating any of the provisions of this act
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and punished by a fine
of not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars,
or by imprisonment in the county jail for not exceeding sixty
days, or by both fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the
justice or jury trying the case.

4. Provided, that the provisions of this act shall not be con-
strued as prohibiting the trapping of fur-bearing animals not
protected by the laws of this State, on the above described Mas-
sanutten purchase area in Shenandoah county.
1916.] ACTS OF ASSEMBLY. 569