CHAP. 686.--An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled "An act to protect wild water-fowl and other game in the counties of Accomac and Northampton," as approved March 5, 1894, and amended by an act approved January 18, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section three of an act entitled "An act to protect wild water-fowls and other game in the counties of Accomac and Northampton," approved March fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section three of an act
entitled an act to protect wild water-fowl and other game in the counties
of Accomac and Northampton, approved January, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, be further amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§3. It shall not be lawful for any person to shoot or kill rabbits (or hares) or partridges (sometimes known as quail) in said counties of Accomac and Northampton between the fifteenth day of January and the fifteenth day of November of each year, or take or destroy the eggs of partridges or quail at any time; or to shoot at or in any manner kill or destroy the bird known as the marsh-hen before the fifteenth day of September in any season, or take its eggs later than the first day of June; or to shoot or in any manner kill or destroy the bird known as the willet before the fifteenth of August in any season, or to take its eggs at any time; or to shoot or in any manner kill or destroy the bird known as the gull or strider at any time, or take its eggs later in the season than the fourth day of July; or to kill or capture woodcock between the first day of April and the first day of November in any season; or to capture for sale or transportation, or kill the mocking-bird, brown thrush, cardinal or red bird, robin or red-breast, house martin or starling, or to destroy their nests. If any person violate any of the provisions of this section he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined ten dollars for each offence, and imprisoned in jail until the fine is paid, but not exceeding ten days.

Any person found violating this act may be seized without warrant by any sheriff or constable, or any citizen of the commonwealth, and carried before a justice of the county in which the offence was committed, and be by him disposed of in any case. And in the prosecution of any person for the violation of any section of this act the proof of any such wild fowl, game or bird in his possession shall be deemed prima facie evidence of his guilt.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.