Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1889-11-08
West Virginia Game Laws.

III any person eHdIi sHoo', NUM-,
range, fish or fowl, within the EN-
closed lands.of another person with
out permission from the owner, occu-
pier or agent thereof, he shall forfeit
three dollars for each offense 10 the
owner When any person is con
victed the third time of said offence,
the justice rendering judgment there
for shall require him 10 give recog-
nizance, with good security, in sum
of not less that one hundred dollars,
for his good beaviour for a year;
or if he fails TO give such security,
commit him TO Jail for one month un-
less it be sooner given. As TO unen-
closed lands. petition has 10 be made
to the county court, and notice given
by publication in a newspaper.
1t shall not be lawful for any per
son to catch or destroy any OF the
fish in the creeks or rivers of this
State by means Of a drag or other
nets, fish pots, weirs, traps, by sledg-
ing, shooting. or other devices (ex-
cept by hook and line and gig and
spear nor shall it be lawful 10 put in
the rivers, creeks or streams, OF this
State, at any time, amy fish pots,
weirs. or traps; nor shall it be lawful
for any person 10 catch or destroy
any of the fish in the rivers of this
State. by means Of drag or other nets,
sledging, shooting, seins, or other
device Except by hook and line and
spear from the first day of April to
the first day of December OF each
wear. 1t shall not be lawful to catch
or destroy any jack salmon, in any
manner, between the first day oil
April and the fifteenth day of June OF
each year, nor TO catch or destroy
any brook trout or land-locked sal
mon in any way between the hrst
day of September and the first day oil
January of each year; nor shall II be
lawful for any person 10 Kill hsh at
any time with Coculus lndicus or
other poison, or by the use Of eAplo-
/ sives
1t shall not be lawful for any per
son, engaged at any time in catching
fish, to trespass upon or go into any
enclosed field, adjoining or near the
stream in which said person is fish
ing; nor TO pass through any enclosed
field for the purpose of fishing with
out permission from the owner or
occupier OF such field, nor shall it be
lawful for any person, at any season,
to catch or destroy fish in any dam or
pond, the property Of any person, ex-
cept with the consent of the owner of
such dam or pond be in some OF the
rivers of this State. But nothing in
this act shall be construed TO pre-
vent the catching ofminnows or small
fish Except salmon, shad or trout by
means of hand or cast nets TO be used
in angling or scientific purposes; nor
TO prevent the fish commissioners Of
this State, at any time with nets or
seines, for the purpose Of propagation
or stocking other waters, nor TO pre-
vent any person from taking in any
way fish from his private dam, pond or
spring at any time. Any person, who
shall buy or receive brook trout, land
locked salmon, California salmon, Ger
man carp or any other iish caught or
taken contrary to the prov isions Of
this act knowing the same to be caught
or taken, shall be guilty Of mis-
demeanor, and shall be punished
therefor as herein before provided.
1t shall not be lawful for any person
in any place TO catch, Kill or inJure,
or pursue with such intent any quail
or Virginia partridge between the first
day OF December and the last day Of
October; or any wild turkey between
the first day Of January and the first
day Of October, or blue-winged
teal, mallard or wood duck, or any
wild duck, wild goose or brant at any
time between the first day Of April
and the first day Of October. And
it shall be unlawful for any person at
any time to catch by seine, net or trap
any quail or Virginia partridge. And
it shall be unlawfulfor any person by
the use Of any swive orpivot gun or any
other than the common shoulder gun
or by the aid Of any push boat or
sneak boat for the use OF carrying such
gun to catch kill or wound or destroy
or TO pursue after with such intent,
upon any of the waters, bogs, rivers,
marshes, mud flats, or any cover to
which wild fowls resort within this
State, any wild goose, wild duck or
brant