Chap. 61.-An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “An act to
regulate the taking of fish from the streams in Scott county, and pro-
viding penalties for the violation of same and repealing all acts or
parts of acts in conflict therewith,” approved March 16, 1918, as
amended by an act approved March 15, 1922. [H B 65]

Approved March 21, 1923.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
an act entitled “An act to regulate the taking of fish from the
streams in Scott county, and providing penalties for the viola-
tion of same and repealing all acts or parts of acts in conflict
therewith,” approved March sixteen, nineteen hundred and
eighteen, as amended by an act approved March fifteenth, nine-
~ teen hundred and twenty-two, be amended and re-enacted so as
to read as follows: |

2. It shall be unlawful for any person to catch, destroy, or
take fish of any kind or description from any stream in Scott
county by any method or means other than with hook and line,
trot line, gun or gigs, except as hereinafter provided.

Any person violating any of the provisions of this section
shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than ten nor more than
fifty dollars.

9 It shall be unlawful to use fish berries, lime, giant
powder, dynamite or other explosive or chemical substance of
any kind for the destruction, taking or catching of fish, in any
ereek, pond or river in Scott county, at any time.

Any person violating any of the provisions of this section
upon conviction, be fined not less than one hundred nor more
than three hundred dollars, or be confined in jail for a period of
not less than thirty nor more than ninety days, or both.

4. It shall be unlawful for any person to catch or take any
fish in any of the waters of Scott county by means of seines or
dip nets of any kind, except minnow sSeines not over four feet in
length, between the first day of April and the first day of July,
and it shall be unlawful to fish with seines or dip nets of any
kind at any time exceeding twenty-five feet in length.

Any person violating any of the provisions of this section
shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than fifty nor more than
one hundred dollars, or imprisoned in jail for a term of not less
than ten nor more than thirty days, or both, in the discretion of
the court or magistrate trying the same.
5. It shall be unlawful for any person to take any species of
black bass or Southern chub from any of the waters of Scott
county by any method or means in any way other than with
hook and line. It shall be unlawful to catch the above-mentioned
fish in the waters of Scott county by means of hook and line,
except from the fifteenth day of June of each year to the first
day of April of the following year.

Any person violating any provision of this section, shall,
upon conviction, be fined not less than fifty nor more than one
hundred dollars, or imprisoned in jail not less than ten nor more
than thirty days, or both.

6. Be it further enacted, that one-half of any fine imposed
and collected for the violation of any section of this act shall
be paid to any person who gives information to any proper
officer or instigates a prosecution for the violation of any of the
above sections, in which there may be a conviction.

7. All acts or parts of acts relating to the taking, catching
or destruction of fish, in Scott county, in conflict with any of
the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed.

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