CHAPTER 228

An Act to amend and reenact § 28-148 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to area excepted from authorization to take oysters by dredging.
[H 471]

Approved March 9, 1960

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 28-148 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
follows:
§ 28-148. The privilege stated in the preceding section shall not
extend to Pocomoke Sound, Hampton Roads, Mobjack Bay, or Tangier
Sound, or west of a line drawn from the lighthouse on Rappahannock Spit
to the lighthouse on Wolf Trap Spit, or west of a line drawn from the
lower end of Guinea Marshes to York Spit Lighthouse, and thence to Back
River Lighthouse, or west of a line drawn through the Great Wicomico
River Lighthouse, thence to the east end of the East Island of the Dameron
Marshes, nor to any inlet, creek, or river, nor to the mouth thereof, except
the Potomac river and the following rocks in Tangier Sound, to-wit:
Johnson’s Rock, Thoroughfare Rock, Fox’s Island Rock, John’s Rock,
Klondike Rock, and the California Rock; provided that for the purpose
of this section the southern boundary of Pocomoke Sound shall be a
straight line running from Rouge’s Island Beach Buoy Number Two to
the southeast buoy on Watt’s Island Bar.