Chap. 229.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2115 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, as heretofore amended in relation to fishing by non-residents.
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Approved March 15, 1918.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion twenty-one hundred and fifteen of the Code of Virginia as
heretofore amended in relation to fishing by non-residents, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 2115. What fishing by non-residents is unlawful.—If
any person, not a resident of this State, take or catch fish in any
of the waters thereof in any other way than by line, rod, or pole
held in the hand, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and
fined not less than two hundred nor more than three hundred dol-
lars, and the vessel and fishing apparatus of whatever kind used
in the commission of the offense, shall be forfeited to the Com-
monwealth; and on the failure to pay such fine, he shall be im-
risoned in jail not less than two months. Any resident of this
State who enters into a co-partnership or other agreement with in-
tent to defeat the object of this section shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor, and punished as other violations of this section.