Chap. 216.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 11 of an act entitled an
act to create the board of fisheries, define its duties and fix the salaries of
its members, approved February 7, 1898, as amendea by an act entitled an
act to amend and re-enact section 11 of an act entitled an act to create the
board of fisheries define its duties and fix the salaries of its members, ap-
proved February ‘4, 1898, approved February 21, 1900.

Approved February 15, 1901.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
cleven of an act entitled an act to create the board of fisheries, define its
duties and fix the salaries of its members, approved February seventh.
eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, as amended by an act entitled an act
to amend and re-enact section eleven of an act entitled an act to create
the board of fisheries, define its duties and fix the salaries of its members,
approved February seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-cight, approved
February twenty-first, nineteen hundred, be amended and re-enacted so as
to read as follows:

§ 11. The board shall have authority to supply ammunition, provisions,
and fuel necessary for the use of the steamers, vessels, and their crews,
either by direct purchase or by letting the same, when practicable, to the
lowest bidder after due advertisement, and shall also have authority to
dismiss captains or other employees on said steamers or vessels, and ap-
point others in their stead; and shall license such armament and ordinary
repairs to be made to vessels, machinery and furniture as may be neces-
sary to keep them in serviceable condition, and see that the steamers and
vessels, in their appointments, are at all times kept clean, and otherwise
in good serviceable condition; and said board shall have authority to sell
or exchange any steamer or vessel belonging to said police fleet, and if
sold to reinvest the proceeds of such sale or make further exchanges, as
may appear to them necessary and best for the interests of the state:
provided, that the proceeds of any such sale may be used in additior. to
the appropriations now authorized by law for protection of oysters, main-
tenance of steamers and vessels; for the purchase of any vessel or vessels:
but no expense in addition to the proceeds of such sale and the amounts
now appropriated by law shall be incurred on account of such re-invest-
ment without authority of the general assembly.

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