Chap. 945.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to define a law-
ful fence for the county of Warwick, approved March 3, 1802.

Approved March 4, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the act
approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, entitled an act
to define a lawful fence for the county or Warwick, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That in New-
port magisterial district, of the county of Warwick, the boundary lines
of each lot or tract of land shall be, and are hereby, declared to be a
lawful fence, and all animals going at large in said magisterial district
shall be subject to the provisions of sections two thousand and forty-
two, two thousand and forty-nine, and two thousand and fifty of the
code of Virginia.

§ 2. That in Denheigh magisterial district and in Stanley magisterial
district, of the said county of Warwick, every fence four and a half feet
high (which, if the fence be on a mound, shall include the mound to
the bottom of the ditch) made of four rails, three planks or three
strands of wire to the panel, each panel of which shall not exceed ten
feet in length, shall be deemed a lawful fence as to all animals named
in section two thousand and forty of the code of Virginia of eighteen
hundred and eighty-seven, whether such animals could creep through
the same or not.

§ 3. This act shall be in force in Newport mapietarial district from
its passage, and shall be in force in Denbeigh magisterial district and
Stanley magisterial district from and after the first day of January,
Anno Domini eighteen hundred and ninety-nine.