CHAP. 80.--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, approved March 5, 1894.
Approved January 13, 1896,
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
three of an act entitled an act to protect wild water-fowl and other game in the counties of Accomac and Northampton be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
§3. It shall not be lawful for any person to shoot or kill rabbit, sometimes known as 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 to take or destroy the eggs of partridges or quail at any time; or to shoot 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 in the season than the first of June; or to shoot or in any manner kill or destroy the bird known as the willet before the fifteenth day of August in any season, or take its eggs at any time; or to shoot or in any manner kill or destroy the bird known as the gull or striker at any time, or to take its eggs later in the season than the fourth day of July; or to kill or capture woodcock, between the first day of November, and the first day of April, or to kill or destroy the turkey-buzzard, or black-buzzard; or to capture for sale or transportation, or to kill the mocking-bird; or to kill or capture the brown thrush, or cardinal or red-bird or 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 any section of this act, may be seized without warrant by any sheriff or constable or any citizen of this 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 prima facie of his guilt.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.