CHAP. 531.--An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 "of an act to protect wild water-fowl and other game in the counties of Accomac and Northampton, approved March 5, 1894," as amended by, &c.
Approved February 26, 1900.
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," approved March fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, as amended and re-enacted by chapter eighty of the acts of eighteen hundred and ninety-five and ninety-six, approved January eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, as amended and re-enacted by chapter six hundred and eighty-six of the acts of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven and ninety-eight, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, be further amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
§3. It shall not be lawful for any person to hunt for, shoot, or kill partridges (sometimes known as quail), or rabbits (or hares), in the counties of Accomac and Northampton between the fifteenth day of January and the fifteenth day of November in any year, or to hunt for, trap, or shoot them at a time when snow is on the ground, 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 to take its eggs later than the first day of June in any year; or to shoot or in any manner kill or destroy the bird known as the willet before the fifteenth day of August in any year, 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 striker) at any time, or to take its eggs later than the fourth day of July, in any year; or to kill or capture woodcock between the first day of January and the first day of July in any year; or to capture for sale or transportation or kill the mocking-bird, brown thrush, cardinal (or red bird), red-breasted robin, 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 offense, 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, constable, or game warden, or by any citizen of the commonwealth, and carried before a justice of the county in which the offense 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.