Chap. 156.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to prohibit
the raking and scraping of natural oyster rocks on the eastern or ocean
side of Accomac and Northampton counties.

Approved February 14, 1901.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act
entitled “an act to prohibit the raking, scraping and roughing of natural
oyster rocks on the eastern or ocean side of Accomac county,” approved
March fifth, nineteen hundred, be amended and re-enacted so as to read
as follows:

Whereas there exists within the lines of the Baylor survey defining the
areas of public oyster rocks, beds, and shoals on the eastern or ocean side
of Accomac and Northampton counties, certain limited aggregations of
natural growth oysters, and of oyster shells, known as “rocks”; and

Whereas these said “rocks” are not protected on the said eastern or
ocean side of the aforesaid counties by the cull law of the state, and are
in danger of being depleted and destroyed by the raking, scraping and
roughing of said rocks for the purpose of taking or catching oysters,
clams and shells from the same; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That it shall be
unlawful for any person to use or employ rakes or scrapes or other Vike
devices for the purpose of taking or catching oysters, clams or sheils from
the said rocks on the eastern or ocean side of said Accomac and North-
ampton counties at any time.

2. Any person violating the provisions of this act shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, shall be fined not
less than ten nor more than thirty dollars for each offense, and be con-
fined in jail until such fine is paid, hut not to exceed thirty days.

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