Chap. 575.—An ACT to prevent hogs from running at large in the county of
Grayson.

Approved March 6, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virgimia, That it shall
be unlawful for any person owning or having custody of the same to
permit any hogs to run at large beyond the limits of his own lands
within the boundaries of Grayson county, and east of a line beginning
at the line between the states of North Carolina and Virginia, and with
the Greenwood church road by way of Rugby, thence to R. W. Young’s,
thence by the residence of E. McCarroll, thence with and along the
base of the mountain by way of A. J. Grubbs’, R. J. Walton’s, and
IXmory Vaught’s, to Spencer Anderson’s, thence to Trout Dale, thence
with the public road to the Smyth county line.

2. If any person violate the preceding section, he shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall upon conviction thereof before any
justice or the county court of said county, be fined not less than five nor
more than ten dollars for each hog so permitted to run at large, and
shall be imprisoned in the county jail until such fine and costs are paid.
In any prosecution of a person for violation of the preceding section,
proof of the possession by such person of any such hog shall be prima
facie evidence of his guilt. }

3. This act shall be in force from and after the first day of March,
nineteen hundred.