Chap. 675.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of an act entitled an act
sor ee protection of sheep in the county of Albemarle, approved March

Approved March 8, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion seven 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:

§ 7. That it shall be the duty of the justices of the peace in said
county, upon application of the owners or their agents of such sheep
as have been killed or injured by dogs since the passage and adop-
tion of this act, to issue a summons to three discreet freeholders in
the neighborhood, who shall not be of kin or related to such owners,
to appear forthwith on the premises where such sheep may be, and
being duly ‘sworn, they, or any two of them, shall proceed to ascer-
tain and appraise the true value of said sheep, which shall not, how-
ever, exceed the amount for which such sheep may have been assessed
for taxation upon the books of the commissioners of the revenue of
the said county, together with fifty per centum of such amount added
thereto, and return a statement of the same under their hands to the
owner, and where such sheep have not been so listed for taxation by
reason of their not having been in the county, then the amount so
allowed therefor shall not exceed the amount per capita of the ave-
rage assessed value of the sheep in the commissioner’s district in
which such sheep shall have been killed, together with fifty per contum
of such average assessed value added thereto; and in case any such
appraisement shall be shown by the books of said commissioners 0!
the revenue to be in excess of the maximum herein fixed, then the
commissioner provided for in section eight of this act shall reduce
such appraisement and allow only the maximum herein fixed a
aforesaid.

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