Chap. 470.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3251 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, requiring permits to carry oysters from certain grounds, and pro-
hibiting the taking of certain oysters and other shell-fish on Sunday or in
the nighttime. [H B 210]

Approved March 24, 1926.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
-hirty-two hundred and fifty-one of the Code of Virginia, be amended
ind re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 3251. Permit to carry oysters from certain grounds;
»enalty.—No person, without having a written permit from an oyster
nspector, an oyster police officer, or from a member of the commission
of fisheries, shall at any time during the closed season, carry oysters
out of James river above a line drawn from Pig Point, in the county of
Nansemond, to Newport News Point, in the county of Warwick,
whether said oysters be taken from natural rocks or planting grounds,
nor shall any person take clams, or crabs in the waters of this State or
oysters from either public or private grounds on Sunday or in the
night time, between the hour of sunset and sunrise, nor shall any per-
son load on any. vessel any oysters from the public waters of the
Commonwealth on Sunday or in the night time between the hours of
thirty minutes after sunset and thirty minutes before sunrise. Any
person violating the provisions of this section shall be fined not less
than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars.

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