Chap. 437.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2048 of the code of Vir-
inia in relation to how boundary lines of lots and tracts of lands made a
awful fence, and excluding the county of Alleghany from the operation
thereof.

Approved February 26, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
twenty hundred and forty-eight of the code of Virginia be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 2048. How boundary lines of lots and tracts of land made a law-
ful fence.—The board of supervisors of any county, except the county
of Alleghany, after posting a notice of the time and place of meet-
ing 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 boundary lines of each lot or tract of
land in such county, or in any magisterial district thereof, or any
selected portion of such county, to be a lawful fence as to any or all
of the animals mentioned in section twenty hundred and forty-two;
and to the extent the said board shall so declare the boundaries of
each lot and tract of land 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
twenty hundred and thirty-eight shall be inoperative from and after
the said six months.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.