Chap. 228.—An ACT to amend and re-enact the act entitled an act to
prevent the catching or taking of oysters from the oyster-bed known
as Russ’ Rock in the Rappuhannock river, approved March 17, 1876.

Approved March 3, 1884.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
sections one and two of an act entitled an act to prevent the
catching or taking of oysters from the oyster-bed known as
Russ’ rock in the Rappabannock river, approved March
seventeenth, eightcen hundred and seventy-six, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That it shall be unlawful for any person, within five years
from the passage of this act, to catch or take oysters from an
oyster-bed known as Russ’ rock, situated in the waters of the
Rappahannock river, a few miles below the town of Tappa-
hannock, in the county of Essex, for the purpose of carrying
them out of the state, or for the purpose of bedding or plant
ing them with a view of eventually carrying them out of the
state, or selling them to be carried out of the state. Nor
shall it be lawful for any person, within said period, to take
or catch oysters from said Russ’ rock, for the purpose of
carrying them, or selling them to be carried beyond the
mouth of the said Rappahannock river, or to be used by any
canning establishment in or out of the state.

2. Any person violating the provisions of this act, shall be
liable to a penalty of fifty dollars for each offence, to be re-
covered before any justice of the peace of this common-
wealth; and it shall be the duty of the oyster inspector for
the counties of Richmond and Essex to see that this act is
enforced.

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