Chap. 304.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section one of an act
approved January 20, 1877, relative to the ferce law.

Approved March 14, 1878.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
sectiom one of an act approved January twenty, eighteen
hundred ahnd'seventy-seven, be amended and re-enacted so as
to read as follows:

§ 1:-That in any case when one only of two adjoining
counties may have adopted, or may hereafter adopt, the pro-
visions of the act of the twenty-sixth of January, eighteen
hundred and sixty-six, entitled an act relating to fences and
the protection of crops, and any animal named in said act
shall escape across the line or boundary of the two counties,
the owner thereof shall not be liable to fine as now provided
by law, nor for any trespass committed by such animal upon
the lands lying next such line or boundary, nor to a forfeit-
ure of the animal, unless the lands upon which the trespass
is alleged to have been committed shall have been enclosed,
as provided in the first section of chapter ninety-seven, Code
of eighteen hundred and seventy-three: provided, however,
that this act shall not take effect till the expiration of two
years from the first day of January, eighteen hundred and
seventy-eight.

2. All acts and parts of act inconsistent with this act are
hereby repealed.

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