Chap. 280.—An ACT to authorize and empower the state board of fisheries to
employ a surveyor or surveyors, and making an appropriation for com-
pensation of the same.

Approved February 6, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the board
of fisheries be, and they are hereby, authorized and empowered to select
and appoint, on such terms as may be agreed upon, any county surveyor
or surveyors to resurvey any oyster planting grounds heretofore assigned
or occupied, either in his own or any other county, and to re-establish
any line or lines of the Baylor survey which, in the judgment of the
board of fisheries, it may be necessary to define. Said surveyor shall
likewise copy plats in any clerk’s office in this state, at the discretion of
the board, and perform such other services as the said board may direct,
and furnish the board of fisheries, whenever requested to do so, with a
complete list setting forth the names of those occupying planting ground
in each of the inspection districts of the state and the number of acres
assigned to and occupied by each, and in the event, no suitable and
proper county surveyor can be employed for the purposes hereinbefore
mentioned; said board are hereby empowered to employ, at their dis-
cretion, any suitable and competent surveyor to perform this work, and
said survey so made, together with plats, shall, if the board so direct,
be returned to and made a part of the records of the said board of
fisheries.

2. The sum of twenty-five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as
may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of the oyster fund annually,
for a period of two years, to carry out the provisions of this act.

3. All acts or parts of acts, in so far as they are in conflict with this
act, are hereby repealed.

4, This act shall be in force from its passage.