CHAP. 85.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-section 7 of section 2086
of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended. (S. B. 68.)

Approved February 29, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
sub-section seven of section twenty cighty-six, of the Code of
Virginia, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sub-section 7. It shall be unlawful to set or fish any pound
net within the York river, above a line drawn from Yorktown
in the county of York to Gloucester Point in the county of
Gloucester, Poquosin river, Back river, Chickahominy river,
Elizaketh river or Nansemond river, or any of the tributaries
thereof, or in the James river above a straight line drawn from
Blunt Point in Warwick county, to the mouth of Smithfield
creek, in Isle of Wight county, 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 per-
sons for the purpose of planting oysters; and any and all pound
net stakes driven in the rivers or their tributaries allowed by
lew shall be withdrawn by the owner when no longer in actual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,
betwcen 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 (34.) of a mile of the
shore lving between Lynnhaven inlet and Willoughby spit pier
in Norfolk county.

2. An emergency existing because of the approach of the
fishing season, this act shall take effect from its passage.