Chap. 378.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act approved February
5, 1900, entitled an act to authorize and empower the State Board of Fisheries
to employ a surveyor or surveyors, and making an appropriation for compensa-
tion of the same.

Approved March 28, 1902.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section one
of an act approved February fifth, nineteen hundred, entitled an act to
authorize and empower the State Board of Fisheries to employ a surveyor
or surveyors, and making an appropriation for compensation of the same,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the board
of fisheries be, and they are hereby, authorized and empowered to
select and appoint, on such terms as may be agreed upon, any surveyor
or surveyors to survey or resurvey any oyster-planting grounds, either in
his own or any other county, and to re-establish any line or lines of the
Baylor survey which, in the judgment of the board of fisheries, it may
be necessary to define. Said surveyor shall likewise copy plats in any
clerk’s office in this State, at the discretion of the board, and perform
such other services as the said board may direct, and furnish the board of
fisheries, whenever requested to do so, with a complete list, setting forth
the names of those occupying planting ground in each of the inspection
districts of the State, and the number of acres assigned to and occupied
by each; and in the event no suitable and proper county surveyor can be
employed for the purposes hereinbefore mentioned, said board are hereby
empowered to employ, at their discretion, any suitable and competent
surveyor to perform this work, and said survey so made, together with
plats, shall, if the board so direct, be returned to and made a part of the
records of the said board of fisheries.

2. The sum of twenty-five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may
be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of the oyster fund annually, for
a period of two years, to carry out the provisions of this act.

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