Chap. 155.—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the 5th Section of an Act,
in force March 20, 1872, entitled an Act to Amend and Re«2nact Sec-
tions 4 and 5 of the Act-relatmg to Fences and for the Protection of
Crops, passed January 26th, 1866,

In force March 11, 1873.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the fifth
section of an act in force March twenty, eighteen hundred and
seventy-two, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections
four and five of the act entitled an act relating to fences and
for the protection of crops, passed January twenty-sixth,
eighteen hundred and sixty-six, be amended and re-enacted so
as to read as follows :

§ 5. The board of supervisors of any county in this com-
,monwealth, after posting a notice of the time and place of
meeting for thirty days at the court-house door, at each voting
place in the county, and by publishing the same for four weeks
in some newspaper of such county, if any such be printed
therein, a majority of the board being present and concurring,
may declare the provisions of this act, or any one or more of
them, to be in force in their county, or in any township, or any
selected portion thereof, as to any or all of the animals enu-
merated in this act, in which case the first section of chapter
ninety-nine of the Code of eighteen hundred and sixty shall be
inoperative in said county or township, or any such selected
portion thereof, otherwise shall remain in full force. Nothing
in this act shall deprive the injured party of his action of tres-
pass when the damages are laid in a sum exceeding the juris-
diction of a justice of the peace. But this act shall not apply
to the counties of Accomack or Northampton.

2. This act shall be in force from and after six months after
its adoption by any county.