Chap. 250.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3170 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, relating to license for buying herring or packing fish roe. [S B 127]

Approved March 24, 1930

I. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
thirty-one hundred and seventy of the Code of Virginia, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 3170. Every person, firm or corporation salting or buying
and packing herring or packing fish roe for market or profit shall pay
license tax of seven dollars and fifty cents to the inspector. For issuing
such license in each case herein specified, there shall be a fee of fifty
cents paid by the licensee, in addition to the said license tax, which fee
shall be turned over the commissioner, and covered into the public
treasury. to be appropriated, as provided by law, for the benefit of the
seafood industry; provided no tax shall be required of any fisherman
for the privilege of packing or shipping roe from sturgeon caught by
such fisherman.