Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-06-05

hereinafter provided, to ship or trans.
port, or to cause to be shipped or
transported, from this State, whether
alive or dead, wild water fowl, wild
turkeys, pheasants or grouse, wood
cock, psrtridges, quail or other game
birds, or any deer or vension, Killed
or captured within this State.
.. Any person authorized to hunt
under the laws of this State NAV,
during the open season, take with
him out OF the State, either i'm his
personal possession or as his baggage.
on the sane conveyance with him,
not in closed package, but exposed
to view not exceeding thirty Wild
water fowl, fifty quail or partridges,
ten pheasants or grouse, three wild
turkeys, one deer or plovers, snipe.
sandpipers, willets, tattlers or curlew,
not exceeding twenty-five of each or
not exceeding one hundred in the ag-
gregate, lawfully killed or captured
by himself: provided the same shall
be plainly labelled or tagged with the
name and address of such person:
aud any citizen of this State NAV.
during the open season, ship or have
transported from this State, as a gift
and not for market or sale, 80 stating
on the shipping tag, one deer during
the season, and not exceeding three
wild turkeys, six pheasants, twelve
wild water fowls, eighteen partridges
or quail; provided, that such game
shall be shipped exposed to public
view and uncopcealed, and each
parcel or package shall be plainly
labelled or tagged with the name
and address of the donor and of the
donee, and that number of each of
such game so shipped. This section
shall not apply to sora or rabbits or
hares.
5. Itshall be deemed a violation
OF this section for any person to
deliver any of the game herein men,
toned to any common carrier or per-
son for shipment or transportation
out of the State.
6. Nothing in this section shall
be construed to prevent common car
riers from carrying or transporting
any OF the game herein men toned in
unbroken packages from beyond the
confines of this State through the
same to some point in another state.
2. Any person or corporation
violating any provision of this section
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and
be liable to fine of fifty dollars for
each offense, or imprisoned in iail
for not exceeding sixty days.
8. No person charged with an
offence under this section shall with
in the meaning thereof be deemed a
resident Of this State who shall not
have resided within the limits of the
State twelve months next preceding
the time when the alleged offense
was committed, unless he shall have,
bona fide taken up his residence in
this Commonwealth.
Section 2071. Ifany person with
out the consent Of the owner or ten
ant, shoot, hunt, range, fish, trap or
fowl on or in the lands, waters, mill
ponds or private ponds of another,
which are enclosed, or the boundaries
of which or the streams adjacent to
which constitute q lawful fence, or
on any lands, waters, mill ponds or
private ponds Of another, east of the
Blue Ridge mountains, or in the
waters on said land, he shall be
deemed guilty of q tresspass.
Section 2072. Ifany person shoot,
hunt, range or fowl on the lands or
in the water courses comprehended
within the survey of any proprietor
of lands in the counties of Alexan-
dria, Fairfax, Prince William, Stat
ford and King George. and within
five miles Of navigable tidewater.
without license in writing from the
owner or tenant of said lands, he
shall, besides being liable to such
owner or tenant in an action for
damages, forfeit to the informer
three dollars for the first offense, six
dollars for the second offeuse, and
nine dollars for each succeeding Of
fense, the forfeiture in each case to
be double if the offense be committed
in the night or OF Sunday; and he
shall likewise forfeit to the informer
in each instance his boat or other
means Of conveyance, his guns, dogs |
and all his shooting and hunting
apparatus used in the commission of |
the offense, and be liable for all costs |
and expenses incurred in apprehend.
ing and prosecuting him for the re-
covery of said forfeiture.
Section 2073. ANY person violat-
ing either of the two preceding sec-
lions may be arrested, and the prop
erty forfeited under the last section
may be seized with or without war
rant BY any sheriff or constable or
any game warden of the Common
wealth within their respective juris-
dictions, and held TO await Judgment.
Ii the offender be acquitted, any
property seized shall be released.
Section 2074. If person be con- |
Victed third time OF any Of the
offenses mentioned in this chapter,
the justice rendering Judgment there
FOR shall require him to give a recog-
nizance. with sufficient surety, for
his good behavior for year; and if
ne fail to give such surety commit
him to Jail for one north, unless he
sooner give 1T.
Section 207S. If any person shoot
Or kill tame deer having a bell or
collar on its neck he shall pay to the
owner the value of such deer.
Section 2079. 1t shall be unlaw-
ful at any time to kill or capture
the turkey buzzard, or black buzzard,
Or to kill or ship alive out Of the
State the mocking bird, or kill or
capture the thrush, gold finch, oriole,
wren, ram crow, cardinal or red bird,
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