Chap. 383.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3250 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, in relation to licenses for selling or removing seed oysters from
certain grounds. [H B 275]

Approved March 24, 1926.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
thirty-two hundred and fifty of the Code of Virginia, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 3250. License to buy or carry seed ovsters from certain
grounds; penalty. Tt shall be unlawful for any person, without first
having obtained a license therefor, as hereinafter provided, to buy or
carry oysters to be planted in this State whose shells measure less
than three inches in length from hinge to mouth, from the eastern
side of Accomac and Northampton counties, or from James river
above the seed line as established in section thirty-two hundred and
forty-four. Any person desiring to buy or carry such oysters from
said localities to be planted in this State, shall first obtain for each
cargo a permit therefor from the oyster inspector for the district
wherein such person resides, or from an officer of a police boat for
each boat or vessel to be used, which permit shall state the name and
tonnage (if registered in the custom house) of the boat or vessel, the
name of the owner and master thereof, and to what waters in this
State it is intended to use such boat or vessel in carrying such oysters.
Before such permit shall be granted, the owner or master of such
boat or vessel shall make oath before the inspector or officer of a
police boat that said boat or vessel will not be used for the purpose
of carrying seed oysters measuring less than the size aforesaid out
of this State, and that he will not sell such oysters to any other person
for the purpose of carrying the same out of the State. The oaths
so taken and subscribed, together with a memorandum of the permit
issued, shall be returned by the inspector or officer of a police boat
to the secretary of the commission of fisheries, to be filed by him
in his office. The owner or master of any boat or vessel found buying
or carrying seed oysters from the places aforesaid to any point in this
State, without a permit therefor, shall be fined not less than fifty nor
more than two hundred dollars. .

2. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its
passage.