Chap. 263.—An ACT to declare a certain portion of ground in York river to be a
natural oyster rock.

Approved February 9. 1898.

Whereas when the geodetic survey of natural oyster rock in York
river was made under the act of general assembly, approved February
twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, through inadvertence or
mistake a natural oyster rock was omitted from the plot of said survey,
which natural oyster rock is between public ground number thirty and
the oyster planting grounds of J. M. Carmines, Westley Yates, W. W.
Allmond and W.C. ‘Lewis, running from figure seven to figure eight on
the in-shore line, as designated on the plot ‘of the said survey of the said
publie ground number thirty on file in the clerk’s offices of Gloucester
and York counties, and from said figure cight to the out-shore point on
the boundary line between the oyster planting grounds of the said West-
ley Yates and W. W. Allmond, and thence in a straight line to the said
figure seven;

And whereas the commissioners appointed by the county court of
Gloucester county, in pursuance of section fourof the said act, did de-
termine the said omitted oyster rock to be natural oyster rock;

And whereas the above described natural oyster rock should be em-
braced in the geodetic survey: now, therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the natural
oyster rock in York river between the public ground number thirt y and
the oyster planting grounds of J. M. Carmines, Westley Yates, W. W.
Allmond, and W. C. Lewis, running from firure seven to ficure eight on
the in-shore line, designated on the plot of the said survey of the said
public ground number thirty in the clerk’s offices of Gloucester and
York counties, and from said figure eight to the out-shore point on the
boundary line between the oyster planting grounds of Westley Yates and
W. W. Allmond, and thence in a straight line to the said figure seven
be, and the same is hereby, declared to be a natural oyster rock, and to
be held and regulated as all other natural oyster rocks which are em-
braced in the geodetic survey. All laws pertaining to natural oyster
rocks in the geodetic survey shall be applicable to this natural oyster
rock, which is made go by this act; any and all expense created by this
act in making asurvey or otherwise shall be borne by Gloucester county,
and the board of supervisors shall make provision to pay the same:
provided that nothing in this act shall affect any pending proceedings in
any court of this commonwealth by any person claiming to he entitled to
the said ground as lessee of the same from the state of Virginia.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.