Chap. 277.—An ACT to amend section 2 of an act approved April 2, 1902, entitled
an act to lay off, designate, and survey the natural rocks, beds, and shoals in
Nomini and Currioman bays, in the county of Westmoreland, and to include the
same in the original geodetic survey of the natural oyster rocks, beds, and shoals
of the Commonwealth.

Became a law, without the governor’s signature, May 19, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, that section two
of an act approved April second, nineteen hundred and two, entitled an
act to lay off, designate, and survey the natural rocks, beds, and shoals
in Nomini and Currioman bays, in the county of Westmoreland, and to
include the same in the original geodetic survey of the natural ovster
rocks, beds, and shoals of the Commonwealth, be amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:

$2. When the said survey has been made, a report of the same. to-
gether with a plat of the said survey, shall be made and filed in the
clerk’s office of the county court of the said county of Westmoreland. and
the said survev and plat shall have the same force and effect as if the
same were a part of. and has been included in, the original geodetic sur-
vey aforesaid made under the said act of assembly, a plat of which is now
on file in the said office. The bottoms surveved and set apart as aforesaid
under the provisions of this act shall be, and the same are hereby. de-
clared to be natural oyster rocks, beds, and shoals, to be held and regu-
lated as all other natural oyster rocks, beds, or shoals which are em-
braced in the said geodetic survey; and all laws pertaining to natural
ovster rocks, beds, and shoals in the said geodetic survey shall be appli-
cable to the natural oyster rocks, beds, and shoals created and provided
for by this act: provided, that none of the provisions of this act shall be
construed to interfere with or prevent the completion of any assignments
of oyster bottoms in these waters where applications for the same have
been made and approved by the State board of fisheries prior to the
second day of April, nineteen hundred and two, or to interfere with any
vested rights which any citizen of the Commonwealth may have acquired
therein under the laws now in force.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.