Chap. 47.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5 and 6 of an act entitled
an act to amend and re-enact chapter 422 of the Acts of Assembly of 1926,
concerning elk in the counties of Giles, Bland, Pulaski, Montgomery, and
Craig, as amended by chapter 202 of the Acts of Assembly of 1928, approved
March 24, 1930, in relation to the fee for a license to hunt elk and money
derived therefrom. [S B 30]

Approved February 23, 1934

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That sections
five and six of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact chapter four
hundred and twenty-two of the Acts of Assembly of nineteen hundred
and twenty-six, concerning elk in the counties of Giles, Bland, Pulaski,
Montgomery and Craig, as amended by chapter two hundred and two
of the Acts of Assembly of nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, ap-
proved March twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and thirty, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 5. Any person desiring to hunt elk in either of said counties
during any open season as defined in section three of this act, shall first
obtain from the clerk of the circuit court of the county, a special license
to hunt elk in that county, the fee for which shall be one dollar, and
the clerk’s compensation shall be ten per centum of all such license fees
collected by him. There shall be issued along with the license, a button
with a number corresponding with the number of the license, the form
and type of both license and button to be designed by the Department
of Game and Inland Fisheries, and changed each year, which license
and button, together with a regular hunting license and button shall
be carried on the person while hunting elk.

Section 6. The money arising from the sale of such special licenses
shall be paid by the clerk, less his commissions for issuing the same,
into the county treasury and what may remain after paying for the
license forms and buttons, shall be applied first to the payment of claims
for damages done by elk to crops or other property in such county, ap-
proved as hereinafter provided, and the residue, if any shall be used in
stocking such county with game and fish.

Any person whose crops or other property has been damaged by elk,
shall promptly notify the regular game warden of the county, who shall
make an investigation and if possible, come to an agreement as to the
amount of damage, and in the event of failure to agree, the same shall
be settled by arbitration according to the usual custom of the country,
and the award of the arbitrators shall be final and binding.

The warden shall report all such agreements and awards to the board
of supervisors for payment as provided for in the preceding section ;
provided, however, that said board shall have the right to inquire into,
and investigate any and all such claims for damages, and to disallow
any claim for fraud or deception in the adjustment thereof, with the
right of appeal by the claimant to the circuit court of the county.