Chap. 362.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 12 of an act entitled “an act
requiring all oysters from the public rocks of the Commonwealth to be in-
spected when loading on vessels; measurements, tax; penalties,” approved
March 24, 1926, as heretofore amended. [S B 291]

Approved March 26, 1932
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
twelve of an act entitled “an act requiring all oysters from the public
rocks of the Commonwealth to be inspected when loading on vessels ;
measurements, tax; penalties,’ approved March twenty-fourth, nine-
teen hundred and twenty-six, as heretofore amended, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 12. The commissioner of fisheries shall have the power,
and it shall be his duty, to cause to be clearly marked the depleted
natural oyster rocks, shoals and beds, of this State, the repletion of
which is undertaken; and to cause a plat thereof to be made, and filed
or recorded in his office; to properly police the same; and to prevent
any oysters from being taken therefrom until such time as he shall
determine that such depleted area has grown a crop of marketable oys-
ters sufficient to open the same to the public. Notice of the time when
the public shall be permitted to work such area shall be, by printed
hand bills, posted in the community surrounding the same, and in
such other manner as the commissioner shall direct, for at least thirty

ays.