Chap. 379.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend
and re-enact section 2048 of the code of Virginia, as amended by an act ap-
proved January 16, 1890, in relation to what constitutes a lawful fence, ap-
proved March 4, 1890.

Approved February 18, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act
entitled an act to amend and re-enact section two thousand and
forty-eight of the code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by
an act approved sixteenth January, eighteen hundred and ninety, in
relation to what constitutes a lawful fence, approved March fourth,
eighteen hundred and ninety, be amended and re-enacted so as to
read as follows:

§ 2048. How boundary lines of lots and tracts of land make a law-
ful fence.—The board of supervisors of any county, after posting a
notice of the time and place of meeting for thirty days at the front
door of the court-house, at each voting place in the county, and by
publishing the same once a week for four successive weeks in some
newspaper of such county, if any such be printed therein, a majority
of the board being present and concurring, may declare the boun-
dary line of each lot or tract of land, or any other natural or desig-
nated line in such county, or in any magisterial district thereof, or
in any selected portion of such county, to be a lawful fence as to
any or all the animals mentioned in section two thousand and forty-
two; and to the extent that said board shall so declare the bounda-
ries of each lot and tract of land, or any other natural or designated
line, shall constitute a lawful fence as to the said animals, or such
of them as may be named, after six months from the time of such
action by the board; and to such extent section two thousand and
thirty-eight shal] be inoperative from and after said six months:
provided that in any county for which a special fence law has heretofore
been enacted, and whose board of supervisors have, prior to this amend-
ment, adopted such a lawful fence as is provided for by this section, the
action of said board 18s hereby confirmed and made valid. And in any
county where the supervisors or other local authorities have hereto-
fore, in pursuance of law, declared, or shall hereafter, in pursuance
of law, declare the boundary line of each lot or tract of land, or any
other natural or designated line in such county, or in any magiste-
rial district thereof, or in any selected portion of such county, to be
a lawful fence, then the board of supervisors, after the same notice
and publication as above provided, by a unanimous vote of all the
members of the board, may declare that the boundary line of lots
and tracts of land and other natural or designated lines in such
county, or in any magisterial district thereof, or in any selected
portion of such county, shall, after the expiration of a period to be
designated by the board, if not less than one year, cease to be lawful
fences as aforesaid; and upon the expiration of the period as desig-
nated, and to the extent declared by said board, such boundary lines
of lots and tracts of land, or other natural or designated lines, shal]
cease to be a lawful fence, and to such extent section two thousand
and thirty-eight shall again have operation.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.