Chap. 31.—An ACT to empower the Boards of Supervisors of certain counties and
the Council of certain towns to make gifts and donations of property, real or
personal, and of money, to certain charitable institutions and associations.

[H B 44]
Approved February 21, 1946

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia :

1. That the boards of supervisors of the counties of Giles, Bland,
ecklenburg, Brunswick, Page, Warren, Washington, Campbell, Am-
tst, Bedford and Orange, and the councils of the towns of Front
oval, Luray, Abingdon, Glade Spring, Damascus and Orange be and
ey are hereby authorized to make gifts and donations of property, real
’ personal, and of money to be appropriated from their respective treas-
ies, to charitable institutions and associations conducting hospitals or
luntary fire fighting services within the boundaries of their respective
unties. Said donations of money or property to said charitable hospi-
l institutions or associations may be made either for the purpose of aid-
ig in the construction of said hospitals or the operation of same, or both.

An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.

CHAP. 32—-An ACT to amend and re-enact Chapter 472, as amended, of the Acts
of Assembly of 1942, approved April 6, 1942, relating to special license to hunt
ar and deer in Bath County, and punishment for violation, so as to include
Highland and Rockbridge Counties in the provisions of the act. [H B 47]

Approved February 21, 1946

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
, That chapter four hundred seventy-two, as amended, of the
Acts. of Assembly of nineteen hundred forty-two, approved April six,
ineteen hundred forty-two, be amended and re-enacted, as follows:
Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to hunt bear or
deer in Bath County or Highland and Rockbridge Counties without first
aving obtained a special stamp the fee for which shall be one dollar an-
nually. The stamp shall be adhesively afixed to the back of the season’s
hunting license issued such person who shall cancel the same with his
initials in ink.

Section 2. The money received from the sale of such special stamp
shall be paid into the State treasury to the credit of the game protection
fund of the Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries and the net
amount thereof, or so much as is necessary, shall be used for the pay-
ment of damages to crops by deer and to livestock by bear in the Coun-
ties of Bath and Highland and Rockbridge whenever such damage
amounts to ten dollars or more. Such payments shall be limited to the
net amount accruing to the Commission from the sales of such special
stamps in such counties, respectively, during the license year in which
the damage occurred. Any person whose crops are damaged by deer,
or whose livestock 1s damaged by bear, shall report the same promptly
to the game warden of the county, whose duty it shall be to investigate
the same at once. The claim for damages shall be filed in duplicate
under oath on forms furnished by the commission. If the claimant
and game warden agree as to the amount of damage the game warden
shall approve the claim and forward it to the commission. If no such
agreement is reached between them the claim shall be submitted to the
arbitration of three persons in the customary manner and the award of
the arbitrators shall be final and binding.

Section 3. The special stamps herein provided for shall be ob-
tained from the clerks of the circuit courts of Bath and Highland and
Rockbridge counties and the commission shall pay such clerks the sum
of ten cents for each such stamp issued by them, respectively. Any viola-
tion of the provisions of this act shall be deemed a misdemeanor.