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legislative agenda asking for a bill t< allow landowners to shoot bears kill ing livestock and damaging crops.
Mr. Miller suggested it shouk also apply to other predators such at coyotes and wolves.
Mr. Bankston noted that th< Game Commission is charged witl preserving wildlife and said the tra pping program is working. “Rappa hannock County is in a minority Hunters are a minority,” he added.
The supervisors agreed to both request a law that would allow land owners to shoot bears killing livestock and to write the Game Commission requesting the bear season be moved up to start with the deer season.
“We keep chewing this bear meat and it’s getting tougher all the time,” Mr. Estes concluded.
When the supervisors again considered space needs in the courthouse, they learned that Circuit Court Judge Shore Robertson had joined the other judges in asking for more space for witnesses.
Mr. Massie asked if it would be possible to have witnesses wait in the room in the back of the Commissioner of Revenue’s building.
Sheriff John Henry Woodward said, “It wouldn’t work.” He said with witnesses in separate rooms in the courthouse he could better keep track of them.
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