Chap. 187.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act for the protec-
tion of foxes or other fur-bearing or hair-bearing animals in Amelia, Notto-
way, Brunswick, Charlotte, Tazewell, Washington and Chesterfield counties,
and to provide punishment for the violation thereof, approved March 24, 1926,
as heretofore amended. [H B 192]

Approved March 27, 1934

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That an act
entitled an act for the protection of foxes or other fur-bearing or hair-
bearing animals in Amelia, Nottoway, Brunswick, Charlotte, Tazewell,
Washington and Chesterfield counties, and to provide punishment for
the violation thereof, approved March twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred
and twenty-six, as heretofore amended, be amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows: :

Section 1. It shall be unlawful to hunt, chase, molest, injure, kill
or capture by any means whatsoever, any fox or other fur-bearing, or
hair-bearing animals, in the counties of Amelia, Nottoway and Lunen-
burg between the fifteenth day of March and the fifteenth day of
September of each ‘year, including the fifteenth day of each of said
months, and it shall be unlawful to trap, poison or shoot by any means
whatsoever any fox in said counties at any time; provided, however,
it shall not be unlawful for the stockholders of any private game pre-
serve owning land in either or any of said counties, or for their per-
mittees or invited guests, to trap, poison, shoot, or otherwise kill or
capture any fox on the lands of such preserve at any time.

Section 2. Any person violating any of the provisions of the two
preceding sections shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon
conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than five
dollars nor more than fifty dollars, or imprisoned in jail for not more
than thirty days, or both, in the discretion of the justice or the jury
trying the case.

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