Chap. 299.—An ACT to provide for the protection of game in the counties of
Amelia and Nottoway. {H B 240)

Approved March 16, 1918.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That in
the counties of Amelia and Nottoway it shall be unlawful for any
person to hunt, kill or capture in any manner, or have in posses-
sion, any wild turkey, pheasant, grouse, quail, partridges, wood
cock, squirrels, hares, or rabbits between the first day of February
and the first day of November, or to track or hunt any of them
in the snow, or to trap or net them at any time, or buy or offer
for sale or sell at any time any wild turkey, grouse, pheasants, quail
or partridges, or wood cocks, or destroy their nests, eggs or young
at any time, or to kill. chase or capture, or to buy, offer for sale
or have in possession any wild deer between the first day of January
and the first day of November, or to track or hunt them in the
snow; provided, this act shall not be construed to restrict the killing
of hares or squirrels by residents of the said counties upon their own
land at any time, nor to amend laws now governing the boards of
supervisors in the several counties of this State.