Chap. 128.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to define
a lawful fence for Washington county, approved February 14, 1901.
(H. B. 449.)
Approved March 17, 1914.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
an act approved February fourteenth, nineteen hundred and one,
entitled an act to define a lawful fence for Washington county, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

2. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
for and within the county of “Washington, a fence made of three
planks, poles, wires or rails, the bottom one of which is not more
than two feet, nor less than fifteen inches from the ground, the
second one not to be more than twenty inches nor less than six-
teen inches from the first one, and the third or last one not more
than twenty nor less than sixteen inches from the second or center
one, shall be deemed a lawful fence; provided that any other fence
at least four and a half feet high shall also be a lawful fence, and
provided further, that division fences between coterminous land
owners shall be at least fifty inches high, the first twenty-six inches
of which shall be of some standard woven wire fence, the bottom
part of which shall be not more than three inches from the ground,
and the remainder or upper part. of said fence may be of barbed
wire or other wire, plank or poles placed not more than eight
inches apart; or said division fence mav be made entirely of plank,
poles or rails with spaces between said planks, rails or poles not
greater than the wire fence hereinbefore prescribed.

8. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby
repealed.