Chap. 256.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 2 of an act entitled an
act to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act approved February 5, 1900, en-
titled an act to authorize and empower the State board of fisheries to employ a
surveyor or surveyors, and making an appropriation for compensation of the
same, approved March 28, 1902.

Approved March 15, 1904.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sections
one and two of an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section one
of an act approved February fifth, nineteen hundred, entitled an act to
authorize and empower the State board of fisheries to employ a surveyor
or surveyors and making an appropriation for compensation of the same,
approved March twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and two, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the board
of fisheries, be, and they are hereby, authorized and empowered to select
and appoint on such terms as may be agreed upon, any surveyor or sur-
veyors to survey or resurvey any oyster planting grounds either in his own
or any other county, and to re-establish and permanently mark any line or
lines of the Baylor survey which, in the judgment of the board of fisheries,
it may be necessary to define, “or if an application be made to the board
of fisheries, by ten citizens of a county, to have any line or lines of the
Baylor survey, re-established the board of fisheries shall have the line. or
lines of the Baylor survey re-established and permanently marked as
soon as possible, provided a bond and security be given to the board of
fisheries, that they will pay all costs for survey, and so forth, if it should
turn out that it was not necessary, in the opinion of the board, to have
said line or lines re-established; if the ten citizens succeed in showing
that the proper line or lines had not been observed and the right line
or lines of the Baylor survey should be re-established, then the cost to be
borne by the State, and the bond given to be void. Said surveyer shall
likewise copy plats in any clerk’s office in this State at the discretion of
the board, and perform such other services as the said board may direct,
and furnish the board of fisheries, whenever requested to do so, with a
complete list setting forth the names of those occupying planting ground in
each of the inspection districts of the State, and the number of acres as-
signed to and occupied by each, and in event no suitable and proper
county surveyor can be employed for the purposes hereinbefore mentioned,
said board are hereby empowered to employ, at their discretion, any suit-
able and competent surveyor to perform this work and said survey so made,
together with plats, shall, if the board so direct, be returned to and made
a part of the records of the said board of fisheries.
2. The sum of twenty-five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as
may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of the oyster fund annually
for a period of two years from March twenty-eight, nineteen hundred
and four, to carry out the provisions of this act.