Chap. 235.—An ACT to authorize and require the auditor of public accounts
to pay to the commission of fisheries the fines of $100.00 each imposed
by the circuit court for the county of Accomac uron Edward A. George
and John R. Middleton, which were improperly paid over to the said
auditor and by him carried into the literary fund, (S. B. 168.)

Approved March 24, 1914.

Whereas, in the circuit court for the county of Accomac, on the
thirteenth day of April, nineteen hundred and eleven, in re the
Commonwealth versus Edward A. George, and in the said court on
the fourteenth day of April, nineteen hundred and eleven, in re the
Commonwealth versus John R. Middleton, the said Edward A.
George and John R. Middleton were found guilty of unlawful
dredging, and were fined each the sum of one hundred dollars,
which fines should have been paid to the commission of fisheries,
to be placed to the credit of the oyster fund; and,

Whereas, the said fines were by the clerk of said court improperly
paid to the auditor of public accounts of Virginia, and by him
placed to the credit of the literary fund of the State; now, therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the auditor of public accounts be, and he is hereby, authorized and
directed to draw his warrant on the treasurer of Virginia, in favor
of the commission of fisheries, for the sum of two hundred dollars;
and that the treasurer of Virginia is hereby ordered and directed
to honor said warrant for said amount.

The commission of fisheries is hereby directed to apply and
dispose of the said sum of two hundred dollars according to the

- statutes in such cases made and provided.