CHAP. 12.--An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3181 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 28, 1922.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section thirty-one hundred and eighty-one of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 3181. Hauling seines and setting traps in the waters of Accomac and Northampton. No person shall haul seines or set weirs or traps of any kind for the purpose of taking or catching fish in the waters of Accomac or Northampton counties at or within the mouth or inlet, or in any creek, stream or body of water, or in thoroughfares in said counties, between the fifteenth day of August and the fifteenth day of September in any year; but it shall be lawful during said prohibited period to catch fish with draw seines on the eastern or ocean side of said counties; provided the catch of fish shall be for home consumption and not for sale outside of said counties; and, provided the seines, weirs and traps shall not be of a smaller mesh than two inches, stretched measure. This section shall not apply to taking fish known as "Fatback," nor be construed to prohibit the hauling of seines for family use in the waters of the north fork of Old Plantation Creek in the jurisdiction of Northampton county, within the limits prescribed in chapter two hundred and eleven of the acts of eighteen hundred and seventy-six and seventy-seven, during the months of June, July and August, nor to interfere with the privilege of taking fish in Chesapeake bay. Any person violating the provisions of this section shall, for each offense, be fined not less than fifty dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars, and upon conviction all seines, weirs and traps, boats and other appliances used in such violation shall be forfeited to the Commonwealth.

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