Chap. 268.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-section 2 of an act entitled
an act to amend and re-enact sub-sections 2, 6, 9, 10, and 13, of section
2086 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, approved March 22,
1916. [H B 119]

Approved March 16, 1918.

1. Be is enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sub-
section two of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sub-
gctions two, six, nine, ten and thirteen of section two thousand
and eighty-six of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended,
approved March twenty-second, nineteen hundred and sixteen, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows: |

Sub-section (2). Every such resident who shall apply for license
to catch or take fish from the waters of the Commonwealth, or the
waters within the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth, in addition to
the fee aforesaid shall pay to the oyster inspector of such district
a specific license tax, which shall be in lieu of all taxes levied upon
such persons for taking and catching fish, or for selling the product
thereof, as follows: On each sail vessel fishing with purse net of
not more than four hundred meshes deep, five dollars; on each sail
vessel fishing with purse net of more than four hundred meshes
deep, twenty-five dollars; on each steam vessel fishing with purse
net, one hundred dollars; on each power boat of over twenty horse
power fishing with purse net, ten dollars; on each purse net, three
dollars; on each float or stake gill net of six hundred feet in length
and under, one dollar; and for every additional one hundred feet
or fraction thereof, twenty-five cents; on each thresh net, or skirt
net or similar device, one dollar; on each fyke net head, weir, or
similarly fixed device, one dollar; on each haul seine, operated by
motor boat power not exceeding five-horse, or by hand, for market
or profit, one dollar; on each drift haul net attended by motor boat
exceeding five horse power, twenty dollars; but no steamboat shall
be allowed to fish such net; on each haul seine hauled by wind-
lass, with horse or mule power, or other power than hand or steam,
twenty dollars; on each haul seine operated by steam power, fifty
dollars; on each sturgeon gill net or trammel net, three dollars; on
each sturgeon sweep net or haul seine, twenty-five dollars; for
every person not a resident of the State of Virginia, catching blue
fish by hand line, two dollars and an inspector’s fee of fifty cents:
provided no net of any kind shall be used for catching blue fish:
and inspectors issuing said licenses shall furnish to the persons to
whom said licenses are issued a number or register mark to be
placed by the fishermen on their boats or fixed fishing devices. The
register mark or number shall be F. L. and the number of the license
issued and the number of the district. For example “F. TL. 1-1”
showing that the holder thereof has fishing license number one is-
sued by the inspector of district number one. The numbers and
etters shall be not less than four inches high, and shall be stamped
n black upon white board or canvas, and shall be furnished by
he inspector to the party to whom the license is granted; and if
he license be for a fixed fishing device the holder of said licence
shall fasten the said register mark or number securely to one of
the off shore stakes of the said fishing device; and if the license b
for a haul seine, drift net, purse net or similar fishing device, the
holder of said license shall fasten said register mark or number
securely on the starboard prow of the boat used in fishing said
device. This act shall not. apply to fishing on streams above tide-
water.