CHAP. 57.--An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of chapter 100, Code 1873, as amended by an act approved February 20, 1878, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 31, 1879, in relation to unlawful fishing.
Approved February 3, 1888.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section six of chapter one hundred, Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, as amended by the act approved March twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, as amended and re-enacted by the act approved March thirty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
ยง6. It shall be unlawful for any person to fish with a purse net or pound net in any of the rivers of this state, or within one mile of the mouth of any river, except that the pound net may be used in Piankitank river, and purse nets and pound nets in Rappahannock river, and within two miles of the mouths of said rivers, or to fish with purse nets in creeks, or within half a mile of the shore of Chesapeake bay, within the limits of Elizabeth City, Accomac or Northampton counties, or to set any pound net, or take fish by means thereof in any creek within the counties of Accomac and Northampton or in the Chesapeake bay within one mile and a half of the mouth of any such creek, or between the first day of April and the twenty-fifth day of June of any year, on the eastern side of the said bay within five miles of either of said counties, or to fish in any of the waters of this state, within tide-water, with a purse net, pound net, or other fixed device of any kind, between sunset on Saturday of any week and sunrise on Monday of the ensuing week, but during such time the bag, purse, or head of any pound net or other fixed device shall be taken up so that the fish may freely pass without obstruction. Unlawful to fish with certain nets
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Unlawful to fish on Sundays
2. This act shall be in force from its passage. Commencem't