Chap. 236.—AN ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of an act entitled an act
for the protection of sheepin the county of Albemarle, approved March 25,
1875.

Approved February 12, 1894.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
six of an act entitled an act for the protection of sheep in the
county of Albemarle, approved March twenty-fifth, eighteen hun-
dred and seventy-five, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

§ 6. That when any inhabitant of the aforesaid county shall have
any sheep killed or injured by a dog he may apply to the appraisers
provided for by this act, and they, or any two of them, are hereby
authorized and required to view and ascertain the damages sustained
by the owners of such sheep killed or injured as aforesaid; and
when they shall have ascertained the legality of the claim and the
damages so sustained, they or any two of them shall certify the
same under their hands and seals to said commissioners, who shall
receive the said certificate and give a receipt for the same, and shall
have it filed in his office; and on the first day of August in each
year, or as soon thereafter as possible, he shall make an estimate of
such certificates as may have been presented to him, and also the
amount of all such tax of the same year; and if upon such esti-
mate it shall appear that the amount of said tax will be insufficient
to discharge the whole amount of damages, he shall apportion the
amount and pay to each sufferer in proportion to the loss sustained.
He shall also pay all the rewards herein provided for, for the de-
struction of foxes and wildcats when properly certified to him, and
ifat any time after settling the yearly account before the board of
supervisors of said county there shall be an overplus, such overplus
shall be applied to payiug to such sufferers any deficiency remain-
ing unpaid from any previous years, except that at the end of every
five years, counting from the first day of August, eighteen hundred
and ninety-five, any surplus remaining on hand shall be paid in the
county public free echool fund of said county; but no deficiency
due to any such sufferer shall be paid after the expiration of five
years from the time his claim was first filed, and said board of su-
pervisors shall control and direct the payment and disbursement of
any such surplus, except so far as herein expressly provided for.

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