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

the laws or this State later tha,
half an hour after sunset or earlier
than an half an hour before sunrise
or to shoot or hunt any game in this
State on Sunday.
B. All acts or parts of acts in
conflict with this section are hereby
repealed, but the board of supervls.
ors OF any county shall have the
power to shorten the open season il
their said county and may pei NIT tn,
: shipment of wild water fowl from
said county or out of the State, and
by regulations, not inconsistent with
the provisions of this section, NAV
further protect the game within their
said county.
6. Nothing in this section shall
be construed TO refer to the bird
known as sora.
| Sec. 2070 (b). 1t shall be the
duty of the city or corporation courts
of the cities, or the judges thereof in
vacation on the application of five
resident freehoiders of any city to
appoint two suitable persons in such
lcity as game wsrdens, whose juris-
diction shall be confined to their re-
spective cities and where the Board
of Supervisors of any county shall
request the judge of the Circuit Court
of said county so todo, the said Judge
shall, upon the application of five
resident freeholders of any magiste-
rial district in said county appoint
one suitable person in such magiste-
rial district as game warden, whose
Jurisdiction shall be confined to said
magisterial district.
2. The said wardens shall hold
Office for the term of four years from
the date of their appointment AID
shall qualify according to law.
| B. 1t shall be the duty of said
wardens to enforce all statutes of
this State, and Of the United States,
for the protection aud propagation
Of wild water fowl, game birds and
game animals or song or insectivo-
rous birds. The said wardens shall
have the power and it shall be their
duty, to arrest any person detected
by them In the act OF violating any
of the aforesaid laws, OF any person
against whom warrant shall have
been duly issued upon the informa-
ton of any other person for such
violation.
4. The several commanders of
the oyster police boats of this Com
monwealth are hereby constituted
game wardens of this State, whose
jurisdiction as such wardens shall
extend over the lands and waters of
this Commonwealth within their
several jurisdictions as commanders.
| s. Any court judge or justice
having jurisdiction over the offense,
if satis6ed upon affidavit that there
is reasonable cause to believe that
any wild water fowl, game birds,
game animals or song or insectivo-
rous birds or parts there caught,
taken, killed, shipped, or about to
be shipped, or in transit, contrary to
the laws of this State, or of the Uni
ted States, are being concealed or
stored in any place, shall issue q
search warrant and cause search
therefor TO be made in any such
place.
6. All game animals, wild water
fowls and birds, protected by law, or
parts thereof, found under such war
rant, shall be, seized by the warden
or other officer making the search,
and shall be disposed Of as the court,
judge or justice having Jurisdiction
may direct. All guns, cunning or
hunting appliances found in such
search shall be seized by said warden
or other officer, and held subject to
the payment of the fine prescribed
by law for the offense charged and
the cost of prosecution.
2. Any person or persons inter-
fering with any of the said wardens
In the discharge of their duty, or re,
ssting lawful arrest, shall be deemed
guilty of misdemeanor, and on con-
viction thereof shall be fined not
less than five dollars nor more than
fifty dollars.
g., All fines and penalties i'm
posed and collected under the pro-
visions Of this chapter shall be paid
to the Commonwealth, and in ad-
dition to said fines and penalties
there shall be assessed against the
offender in every case of conviction
two dollars and fifty cents, and be
paid to the warden who shall prose-
cute the conviction.
9. If any warden appointed un.
der this section shall refuse or will
fully neglect to prosecute any person
for violating any of its provisions, his
appointment shall be revoked, and
upon conviction shall be fined not
exceeding twenty dollars.
10. All money paid to or collec-
ted by clerks of courts as hunting
licenses shall constitute q fund for
the payment Of the said regularly
appointed game wardens of this
State, as herein provided, and the
clerk shall, after deducting a fee of
hfty cents for issuing such q license,
on first of April of each year, pay in
equal amounts to the said warden or
wardens OF his county such sum as
may be In his hands arising from
the issuancs of such licenses pro-
vided no one warden shall receive
more from this source than three
hundred dollars IN any one year.
Section 2070 (c}. 1. 1t shall be
unlawful for any person not q resi-
dent OF this State, to hunt or kill wild
water fowl, wild turkeys, pheasants
or grouse, woodcock. partridges.
quail or other game birds, or deer,
within this State until he shall have
first secured hunting license, pro-
vided, however, that the nonresident
children of resident owners of land
IN this State, shall be allowed To hunt |