Chap. 274.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to prohibit
the taking of fish from the streams of Franklin county, except with hook
and line, approved September 4, 1919. {H B 83]

Approved March 19, 1920.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an
act entitled an act to prohibit the taking of fish from the streams of
Franklin county, except with hook and line, approved September
fourth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, be amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:

Sec. 1. It shall be unlawful for any person, at any time, to take
fish from the streams of Franklin county in any manner, except with
hook and line in the usual and accepted sense of angling; provided,
however, that a net not exceeding six square feet in area may be used
in said county for the purpose of catching fish in Roanoke and Staun-
ton rivers. Any person violating this act shall be guilty of a mis-
demeanor and punishable by a fine of not less than five nor more
than fifty dollars. This act shall not apply to the catching of minnows.

2. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its
passage.