CHAP. 12.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3181 of the Code of
Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 28, 1922. [H B 55]

Approved March 16, 1923.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section thirty-one hundred and eighty-one of the Code of Vir-
ginia, as amended by an act approved March twenty-eighth,
nineteen hundred and twenty-two, be amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:

Section 3181. Hauling seines and setting traps in the
waters of Accomac and Northampton.—No person shall haul
Seines or set weirs or traps of any kind for the purpose of taking
or catching fish in the waters of Accomac or Northampton
counties at or within the mouth or inlet, or in any creek, stream
or body of water, or in thoroughfares in said counties, between
the fifteenth day of August and the fifteenth day of September
in any year; but it shall be lawful during said prohibited period
to catch fish with draw seines on the eastern or ocean side of said
counties; provided the catch of fish shall be for home consump-
tion and not for sale outside of said counties; and, provided the
seines, weirs and traps shall not be of a smaller mesh than two
inches, stretched measure. This section shall not apply to tak-
ing fish known as “Fatback,” nor be construed to prohibit the
hauling of seines for family use in the waters of the north fork
of Old Plantation creek in the jurisdiction of Northampton
county, within the limits prescribed in chapter two hundred and
eleven of the acts of eighteen hundred and seventy-six and
seventy-seven, during the months of June, July and August,
nor to interfere with the privilege of taking fish in Chesapeake
bay. Any person violating the provisions of this section shall,
for each offense, be fined not less than fifty dollars, nor more
than one hundred dollars, and upon conviction all seines, weirs
and traps, boats and other appliances used in such violation
shall be forfeited to the Commonwealth.

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