Chap. 381.—An ACT to provide for the processioning of lands in the
counties of New Kent, Charles City, James City, York, Warwick,
and Elizabeth City.

Approved May 23, 1887.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the boards of supervisors of the counties of New Kent,
Charles City, James City, York, Warwick, and Elizabeth
City, respectively, shall be authorized, whenever they deem
it necessary, after July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-
seven, to divide their counties into so many precincts as to
them shall seem most convenient for processioning the lands
of all persons in such counties, or in such portions of
said counties as to such supervisors may seem proper, and
shall appoint the particular times when such processioning
shall be made in every precinct, and shall also appoint three
or more intelligent, honest freeholders of every precinct, to
see such processioning performed, and to take and return to
the said supervisors an account of every person’s land they
shall procession, and of the persons present at the same,
which returm shall be in the following form:

Date of procession-; Oy rersof land, |Peseriptions, marks

ing. | of corners, &e. Persons present.

A copy of which order shall be delivered by the clerk of the
board of supervisors of each county, respectively, to the
sheriff, to be served on the freeholders so appointed, within
fifteen days after the making thereof, and the said freeholder
shall cause the same to be obeyed in every particular, and
shall cause to be given in the most public manner and in the
most public places in their county, by publication in the news-
papers or otherwise, at least three weeks before the same is
performed, of the time appointed by them for processioning
in each precinct, and shall also cause to be served, in the
manner prescribed by law, a like notice upon any person
whose lands may be affected by such processioning. Each
processioner shall be allowed by the supervisors of his county
two dollars for every day he shall be employed, and in the
case of the death, resignation, or removal from office, or
failure to act of any such processioners, the supervisors of
the county where such vacancy shall happen, shall appoint
a@ successor, and every board of supervisors shall make a rea-
sonable allowance to its clerk for the services to be performed
by him by virtue of this act; which allowance, together with
all other necessary expenses incurred in the execution of this
act not otherwise provided for, shall be levied in the next
county levy.
2. The supervisors of each county shall direct in its order
what precinct or precincts each processioner shall attend and
perform the processioning as aforesaid; and the sheriff is re-
quired, when requested by said processioners, to attend them
and remove force, if any should be offered, and for this pur-
pose the sheriff is authorized to summon the posse comitatus
of his county.

3. The processioners, in all their proceedings, and all per-
sons or property affected thereby, shall be governed by the
provisions of chapter one hundred and eleven of the Code of
eighteen hundred and seventy-three, so far as the same are
not modified or repealed by the provisions of this act.

4. Sections one and five of chapter one hundred and eleven
of the Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, to pro-
vide for the processioning and settling boundaries of land, so
far as they app y to the counties of New Kent, Charles City,
James City, Warwick, York, and Elizabeth City, be and the
same are hereby repealed.

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