CHAP. 161--An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved December 19, 1891, entitled an act to amend and re-enact chapter 129, extra session of 1887, for the protection of terrapins.
Approved February 4,1892.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act approved December nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled an act to amend and re-enact chapter one hundred and twenty-nine, extra session eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, for the protection of terrapins, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
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;
but this act shall not be construed as preventing any person who has taken or purchased terrapins at any time, other than between, the first day of May and the fifteenth day of August in any year, from keeping the same in terrapin pounds or ponds during
said period.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.