Chap. 88.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3250 of the Code of Virginia
relating to oysters. [S B 125)

Approved March 4, 1930

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sectior
thirty-two hundred and fifty of the Code of Virginia, be amended anc
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 3250. It shall be unlawful for any person, without first
having obtained a license therefor, as hereinafter provided, to buy or
carry oysters to be planted in this State, whose shells measure less than
three inches in length from hinge to mouth, from the eastern side of
Accomac and Northampton counties or from James river above the
seed line, as established in section thirty-two hundred and forty-four.
Any person desiring to buy or carry such oysters from said localities to
be planted in this State, shall first obtain for each cargo a permit therefor
from the oyster inspector for the district wherein such person resides
or from an officer of a police boat for each boat or vessel to be used,
which permit shall state the name and tonnage (if registered in the
custom house) of the boat or vessel, the name of the owner and master
thereof, and to what waters in this State it is intended to use such boat
or vessel in carrying such oysters. Such boat or vessel shall take station
as directed by the inspector and shall be loaded, under the supervision
of the inspector, and in the order of the presentation of the permit to
the oyster inspector in the seed oyster district in which such vessel is to
obtain its cargo. Said permit shall further certify to the identity and
residence of the person making application to buy or carry said oysters.
Before such permit shall be granted, the owner or master of such boat
or vessel shall make oath before the inspector or officer of a police boat
that said boat or vessel will not be used for the purpose of carrying
seed oysters measuring less than the size aforesaid out of this State, and
hat he will not sell such oysters to any other person for the purpose of
-arrying the same out of the State. The oaths so taken and subscribed.
ogether with a memorandum of the permit issued shall be returned
vy the inspector or officer of a police boat to the commissioner, to be
iled in his office. The oyster inspector in the seed oyster district shall
nail to the oyster inspector of the district for which seed oysters are
lestined, a copy of the waybill covering the amount of the cargo. He
hall also deliver a copy of the same to the captain or other person in
charge of the seed buy boat. The inspector of the district for which
seed oysters are destined, on arrival of the same in his district, shall
report such fact to the inspector in the district from which said seed
oysters were taken and shall also make report thereof to the com-
missioner under stich regulations as shall be prescribed by him. Any
captain or other person in charge of a buy boat who shall take seed
oysters out of the State after certifying his intention to deliver them
within the State, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction
thereof, be fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five
hundred dollars and confined in jail not more than six months, either or
both, in the discretion of the court or jury trying the case. The owner
or master of any boat or vessel found buying or carrying seed oysters
from the places aforesaid to any point in this State, without a permit
therefor, shall be fined not less than fifty nor more than two hundred
ollars.