Chap. 475.—An ACT providing for the collection of specimens of birds and
their nests and eggs for scientific and educational purposes only. [S B 409]

Approved March 27, 1922.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
commissioner of the department of game and inland fisheries shall
be empowered to grant certificates at his discretion which shall be
good for the current year, revocable at any time by him, and said
certificate shall not be transferable. These certificates may be issued
to any person of known scientific attainment in ornithology or to the
agent of any public museum or to a teacher of ornithology in any
school within this Commonwealth, authorizing the holder thereof to
take birds, their nests and eggs, for strictly scientific study and not
for sale or exchange. No such certificate shall be issued to taxi-
dermists.

The number of birds that may be taken under a certificate of
this character shall be limited to eight of each species with nests to
the number of two and the eggs found therein.

The holder of a certificate under this chapter shall render an
accurate account annually to the said commissioner of every specimen
taken by him or her and disposition of same, and no renewal of any
certificate shall be had unless such an accounting is duly filed.

Persons taking a greater number of birds, their nests or eggs
than is permitted in this act, or the shipping of the same out of the
State except for educational purposes, or the sale of skins of such
birds or parts thereof either mounted or otherwise or their eggs
or in any manner violating any provision of this act shall be deemed
to have committed a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be
pumished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than
one hundred dollars, or confined in jail for not more than six months,
or both, in the discretion of the justice or the jury trying the case.