CHAP. 21.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2048 of the code
of Virginia of 1887, relative to what constitutes a lawful fence.

Approved January 16, 1890.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That section two thousand and forty-eight of the code of
Virginia of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§2048. The board of supervisors of any county after
posting a notice of the time and place of meeting for thirty
days at the front door of the courthouse, at each voting
place in the county, and by publishing the same once a
week for four successive weeks in some newspaper of such
county, if any such be printed therein, a majority of the
board being present and concurring, may declare the boun-
dary line of each lot or tract of land, or any other natural
or designated line or what shall constitute a lawful fence,
in such county, or in any magisterial district thereof, or in
any selected portion of such county, to be a lawful fence
as to any or all of the animals mentioned in section two
thousand and forty-two; and to the extent the said board
shall so declare, the boundaries of each lot and tract of
land or any other natural or designated line, shall consti-
tate a lawful fence as to the said animals, or such of them
as may be named, after six months from the time of such
action by the board, and to such extent section two thou-
sand and thirty-eight shall be inoperative from and after
the said six months. And in any county where the super-
visors or other local authorities have heretofore in pursu-
ance of law declared, or shall hereafter in pursuance of
law declare, the boundary line of each lot or tract of land
or any other natural or designated line in such county or
in any magisterial district thereof, or in any selected por-
tion of such county, to be a lawful fence as aforesaid, then
the board of supervisors after the same notice and publi-
cation as above provided, a majority of the board being
present and concurring, may declare that the boundary
lines of lots and tracts of land and other natural or desig-
nated lines in such county or any magisterial district
thereof, or in any selected portions of such county, shall
after the expiration of a period to be designated by the
board, not exceeding one year, cease to be lawful fences as
aforesaid ; and upon the expiration of the period so desig-
nated, and to the extent declared by said board, such
boundaries or other natural or designated lines shall cease
to be lawful fences, and to such extent section two thou-
sand and thirty-eight shall again become operative.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.