CHAP. 119.--An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act licensing the taking or catching of scallops with scrapes from the public grounds of the Commonwealth and providing for the design...

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section one of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act licensing the taking or catching of scallops with scrapes from the public grounds of the Commonwealth and providing for the designation of public scallop grounds, approved March twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, as amended by an act approved March twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and twenty-three, approved March twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twenty-six be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 1. It shall be lawful for any person to take or catch scallops with scrapes from the public grounds of the Commonwealth between the first day of February and the first day of May of each year, upon payment to the inspector of the district in which he resides of a license tax of two dollars ($2.00) per year, and an inspector's fee of fifty cents (50c) which shall include the privileges of marketing and shipping scallops so taken or caught. The inspector shall furnish each such licensee with a metal ring, having an inside measurement of one and three-quarters inches, and it shall be unlawful for any person to take, catch, or have in his possession scallops of a size smaller than one and three-quarters inches, which will pass through said metal ring; provided, it shall be unlawful for any person to take or catch scallops with scrapes, or otherwise, from the public grounds of the Commonwealth between the first day of May and the first day of February.