Chap. 119.—An ACT to provide a lawful fence for the county of Essex.
Approved January 26, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That chapter
one hnndre and fifty-two of the acts of the general assembly for eigh-
teen hundred and ninety-two be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

That a lawful fence for the county of Essex shall consist of three
barbed wires, three rails, planks or poles, the top of the first or bottom
wire, rail, plank or pole to be twenty inches high, the top of the second
one to be thirty-two inches high, the top of the third one to be forty-
four inches high; all to be securely fastened to strong posts securcly set
in the ground: provided, however, this act shall not be construed to in
any wise prevent or interfere with the action of the board of supervisors
of said county whenever said board may desire to take action under sec-
tions twenty-hundred and forty-two, twenty hundred and forty-eight, or
any other section bearing upon this subject of the code for eighteen hun-
dred and eighty-seven.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.