Chap. 297.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved
March 2, 1888, entitled an act to grant the right and privilege
for a period of twenty years of occupancy of certain flats and
water-fronts on James river upon certain conditions and to more
definitely define said flats and water-fronts.

In force February 16, 1892.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That an act approved March second, eighteen hundred and
eighty-eight, entitled an “act to grant the right and privi-
lege for a period of twenty years of occupancy of certain
flats and water-fronts on James river upon certain condi-
tions,” be amended and re-enacted so as to read as fol-
lows:

2. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That H. R. Parker, of the county of Isle of Wight, be
granted the exclusive right and privilege for a period of
twenty years, from March second, eighteen hundred and
eighty-eight, of occupying flats and water-fronts in James
river, described as follows: commencing at ordinary low-
water mark at the mouth of a small creek or gut on
Green’s island, being the nearest creek or gut to Cooper’s
creek ; thence north seventy-four degress ten minutes east,
four thousand seven hundred and eighty feet in James
river; thence north seventy-nine degrees twenty minutes
west, three thousand six hundred and fifty feet up James
river; thence south ten degrees ten minutes west, three
hundred feet; thence north seventy-six degrees fifty min-
utes west, five thousand seven hundred and fifteen feet up
James river; thence south twenty-one degrees forty-five
minutes west, fifteen hundred feet to ordinary low-water
mark at the mouth of a ditch or canal (the line between
the lands of the said H. R. Parker and Patrick Davis) ;
thence down James river along the line of ordinary low-
water to the said creek or gut, the point of beginning;
for the purpose of sowing, planting, and propagating oys-
ters, the said H. R. Parker, paying annually to the inspector
of oysters for the county of Isle of Wight the sum of
twenty-five cents per acre for the occupancy of said flats
and water front as aforesaid: provided, however, that all
oysters or shells planted or sowed on the flats aforesaid
shall be subject to tax and restrictions imposed by law
‘upon planted oysters and shells and the planting thereof,
prescribed by sections five, sixteen, twenty-one, twenty-two,
twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty-six, and twenty-seven of
an act entitled an “act for the preservation of oysters and
to obtain revenue for the privilege of taking them within
the waters of the commonwealth,” approved March fourth,
eighteen hundred and eighty-four, as amended by the act
approved August the twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred
and eighty-four: and provided further, that after January
first, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, the said H. R. Par-
ker shall list each year for taxation not less than one hun-
dred bushels of oysters for each acre of water-front inclu-
ded in this grant during the time which he holds the
same.

3. Be it further enacted, That the said H. R. Parker
shall, within six months from the passage of this act,
mark and designate the aforesaid water-front by good and
sufficient buoys, firmly anchored, to be placed as follows:
commencing at starting point and following boundary line
as hereinbefore described ; one buoy midway from starting
point to first angle; one at first angle; one at second angle;
one at third angle; one midway from third angle to fourth
angle; one at fourth angle.

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