Chap. 158.—An ACT to provide for the payment of bounties for the Killing of

certain predatory birds and animals. [S B 114]
Approved March 10, 1920.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
bounties hereinafter specified shall be paid for the killing of the pre-
datory birds and animals hereinafter named, that is to say: Sharp-
skinned hawk, fifty cents; Cooper’s hawk, fifty cents; crow, fifteen
cents; great-horned owl, fifty cents; minks, one dollar; and weasels,
one dollar. No bounty for the killing of crows. however, shall be
paid except on those killed in the months, of April, May, June, July,
August, or September. ,

2. The said bounties shall be paid in the following manner: One-
half by the department of game and inland fisheries, and the other
half by the board of supervisors of the county in which the preda-
tory bird or animal is killed, and if the board of supervisors of any
county fails or refuses to pay one-half of the bounties aforesaid, the de-
partment of game and inland fisheries shall not pay the other half. All
payments made by the department of game and inland fisheries for the
bounties named in this act shall be made through the board of super-
visors of the county in which the predatory bird or animal is killed.
3. In order to entitle any one to the bounties allowed by this act,
the applicant shall produce before the county clerk the head of the
bird or animal herein above mentioned and make affidavit before the
clerk that the same was killed within said county during time above
specified ; no fee shall be charged by the clerk for taking affidavit.