CHAP. 17.--An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 129, Extra Session 1887, for the protection of terrapins.
Approved December 19, 1891.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section sixty of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section sixty of chapter one hundred and one of the code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, approved March ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty, as amended by an act approved May second, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
§60. If any person after the first day of May and before the fifteenth day of August of any year, shall take terrapins, or take or disturb terrapin eggs in the waters of the counties of Accomac, Northampton, Northumberland, Westmoreland, Lancaster, Richmond, Essex, and Isle of Wight, or shall have terrapins in his possession, or shall buy, or offer them for sale in said counties, he shall forfeit two hundred dollars and be confined in the county jail not exceeding thirty days. And if any person, after the first day of May and before the fifteenth day of August of any year, shall take terrapins with a seine, net or weir, in the counties aforesaid, he shall forfeit his boats, seines, and nets, and pay a fine of two hundred and fifty dollars and be confined in the county jail not less than thirty days.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage. Commencem't.