Chap. 69.—-An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “An act to lay off,
designate, and survey the natural oyster rocks, beds, and shoals in Nomini
and Currioman bays, in the county of Westmoreland, and to include the
same in the original geodetic survey of the natural oyster rocks, beds and
shoals of the Commonwealth”, approved April 2, 1902, as heretofore Tea

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Approved March 4, 1938

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That an
act entitled “an act to lay off, designate, and survey the natural oyster
rocks, beds and shoals in Nomini and Currioman bays, in the County
of Westmoreland, and to include the same in the original geodetic
survey of the natural oyster rocks, beds and shoals of the Common-
wealth”, approved April second, nineteen hundred and two, as here-
tofore amended, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 1. The circuit court of Westmoreland county shall forth-
with appoint three commissioners, who shall be persons engaged in
the oyster industry, whose duty it shall be to go out upon the waters
of Nomini and Currioman bays, in the said county of Westmoreland,
and take with them the engineer of the Commission of Fisheries and
the oyster inspector of said county, and there proceed to lay off
and designate, by metes and bounds, all of the natural oyster rocks,
beds, and shoals within said waters of Nomini and Currioman bays
in the said county of Westmoreland, and cause the said surveyor to
make a true and accurate survey and plat of the same, showing by
permanent objects on the shore, if possible, the limits and boundaries
of the said natural oyster rocks, beds and shoals so laid off and sur-
veyed. |
Section 2. When the said survey has been made, a report of the
same, together with a plat of the said survey, shall be made and filed
in the clerk’s office of the circuit court of the said county of West-
moreland, and the said survey and plat shall have the same force and
effect as if the same were a part of, and has been included in, the
original geodetic survey aforesaid made under the said Act of As-
sembly, a plat of which is now on file in the said office. The bottoms
surveyed and set apart as aforesaid under the provisions of this act
shall be, and the same are hereby, declared to be natural oyster rocks,
beds, and shoals, to be held and regulated as all other natural oyster
rocks, beds, or shoals which are embraced in the said geodetic survey ;
and all laws pertaining to natural oyster rocks, beds, and shoals in
the said geodetic survey shall be applicable to the natural oyster
rocks, beds, and shoals created and provided for by this act.

Nothing in this act shall be construed to affect the present riparian
rights of landowners in Westmoreland county, or affect completed
assignments of oyster grounds in said area.

2. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby
repealed to the extent of such inconsistency.

3. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its
passage.