Chap. 204.—An ACT to require Sheep Drovers to Brand or Mark with
Paint, their Sheep.

Approved March 15, 1876.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That.
if any drover shall drive, or cause to be driven, sheep along
@ public road for a greater distance than ten miles without
having the same branded or marked with paint, he shall be
fined by a justice of the peace five dollars for each offence,
and every ten miles any such sheep may be so driven, shall
constitute a separate offence under this statute. Said fine to
go to the county school fund of the county in which said
offence is committed.

2. This act shall be in force on and after tho first day of
May, eighteen hundred and seventy-five.