Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-05-11

evIdenceof the sale of such spirits, and
a United States internal tax receipt
for the sale of malt liquors shall be
prlma facie evidence of the sale of
sucE malt liquors. And whenever
the holder of such receipt shall
not be licensed to sell wine, ardent
spirits, malt liquors, or any mixture
of any of them, under aud in sccor-
dance with the laws of Virginia, and
shall oe prosecuted or otherwise pro-
ceeded against for the illegal sale of
such wine. ardent spirits, malt
liquors, or any mixture OF any of
them, the burden of showing that
ne has not violated the law shall be
De upon him, and the absence of sat-
lsfactory proof that he has not vio-
lated the law he shall be convicted
OF selling wine, ardent spirits, malt
liquors, or any mixture of any of
them, as the case may be, and fined
as provided by law for the sale of
such liquors without license.
When and How Unlawful to Hunt
First. 1t shall be unlawful,for any
person to shoot at, kill, or capture
any wild water fowl or wild turkev
at any time during the nightin this
State, or at any time to capture
them in traps or nets or other con
tilvances, or to use rehectors or other
lights, or sneak boats or artificial
islands in detecting or capturing or
shooting of wild fowl or game of
any kind, or to hunt or shoot musk
rats at night with light in the tide
water sections of the State, or to
shoot at any game on land or water
IN this State with a gun larger than
an eight bore. All sneak boats, meta.
traps, or rehectors or other unlawful
appliances so used or found iu the
possession of any person shall be
seized 10y any game warden or other
officer and held by him as evidence,
but the same shall not be DESTROYED
except by the order of the court or
justice haviog Jurisdiction, upon
warrant duly issued, which said court
or justice shall, upon satisfactory evil
dence of the guilt of the party or of
the unlawful nature of the article
seized. order the same to be destroyed.
The possession of any of said guns,
sneak boats, nets, traps, reflectors, or
other unlawful appliances shall be
prima facie evidence of the guilt of
the person in whose possession they
are found.
Second. 1t shall be unlawful for
any person to hunt, kill, or capture
IN any manner, or buy, offer for sale,
or have in possession any wild tur-
keys, pheasants, or grouse, quail, or
partridges, or woodcock east of the
Blue Ridge mountains between Feb
ruary the first and November the
first, or to track or hunt any of them
in snow, except wild turkeys, or to
trap or net them any time, or to de-
stroy their nests. eggs, or young at
any time, or to kill, chase, or capture,
or buy, offer for sale, or have in pos.
session, any wild deer between JAN
uary the first and October the first,
or to track or hunt them in snow. or
to kill or capture, or buy, offer for
sale, or have in possession, any winter
wild water fowl between April the
first and October the fifteenth, or
summer or wood ducks between Jam
uary the first and August the first, or
any rails, mud hens, gallinules,
plovers, excrpt black breast plover,
green head piover, aud white ployer,
snipe. except Wilson or English snipe
or robin snipe, sand pipers, willets,
or tattlers. between January the first
and July the twentieth, or robins
between March the first and Decem.
Der fifteenth.
The possession of any Of said game
birds or game animals, or parts
thereof, protected by the laws of
this state, during the season in which
it is unlawful to hunt, kill, chase,
or capture the same, shall be prima
facie evidence of the guilt of the
party in whose possession they are
found.
Third. 1t shall be unlawful to
to shoot or otherwise hunt any wild
fowl or any game birds, or game ami.
mails, protected by the laws of this
State, later than an half an hou.
after sunset or earlier than an halt
an hour before sunrise, or to shoe,
or hunt any game in this State on
Sunday.
Fourth. Any person violating any
of the provisions of this section shall