Chap. 241.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 and to repeal section 2 of
an act entitled an act to provide for the registration of any person, being a
resident of this Stete, who desires to take or catch oysters, for sale or planting,
from the natural rocks or shoals on the eastern or ocean side of Accomac and
Northampton counties, and prescribing a fine for so taking oysters without
being registered, and for the registration of any skiff, scow, bateau, or other
amal] craft used in so taking and catching oysters, providing for a fine for a
failure to register the same if the owner be known, and for the sale thereof if
the owner be unknown, and to provide for the policing of the waters of the said
eastern or ocean side of Accomac and Northampton counties, so as to require a
license tax from such persons, approved March 4, 1898.

Approved March 17, 1902.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section one
of an act approved March fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight,
entitled an act to provide for the registration of any person, being a resi-
dent of this State, who desires to take or catch oysters, for sale or plant-
ing, from the natural rocks or shoals on the eastern or ocean side of Acco-
mac or Northampton counties, and prescribing a fine for so taking oysters
without being registered; and for the registration of any skiff, scow,
bateau, or other small craft used in so taking and catching oysters, pro-
viding for a fine for a failure to register the same if the owner be known,
and for the sale thereof if the owner be unknown, and to provide for the
policing of the waters of the said eastern or ocean side of Accomac and
Northampton counties, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as fol-
lows:

§ 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That any per-
son, being a resident of this State, who shall be desirous of catching or
taking oysters, for sale or planting, from the natural rocks, beds, or
shoals on the eastern or ocean side of Accomac and Northampton counties
shall apply to the inspector of the district in which he resides for regis-
tration and license. He shall furnish the inspector, on oath, with his
name, place of residence, district and county, the water courses in which
he designs to take or catch oysters,-and the kind of boat or craft to be
used or employed by him. Thereupon the inspector shall register him
and issue to him a license which shall entitle him to take or catch oysters
in said waters during the oyster season for which such license is issued
as prescribed by law. But before such license shall be issued such
person shall pay to the inspector the sum of one dollar and twenty-five
cents, twenty-five cents of which shall go to the inspector, and one dollar
shall be returned by said inspector with his monthly report to the ovster
fund of the State; and if any person shall be found catching or taking
oysters for sale or planting in the foregoing waters without being regis-
tered and licensed in accordance with the provisions of this section, he
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof
shall be fined not less than ten nor more than twenty-five dollars.

2. And be it further enacted, that section two of the same act be, and
the same is hereby, repealed.

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