Chap. 97.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3233 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, in relation to resurveys of oyster-planting grounds. [H B 63]

Approved March 4, 1926.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion thirty-two hundred and thirty-three of the Code of Virginia, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 3233. Resurveys of planting grounds.—When, by any
resurvey of oyster-planting grounds or survey made to re-establish
the lines of the State survey of natural oyster beds, rocks or shoals
vhich shall hereafter be made under the direction of the commission
of fisheries, it shall appear that any holder, without his own default,
and by mistake of any officer of the State, has had assigned to
him and included in the plat of his assignment any portion of the
natural oyster beds, rocks or shoals as defined by law, and it shall
further appear that such holder has oysters or shells planted on the
said ground, then, before the stakes shall be removed from said ground
or the same opened to the public, the said holder shall be allowed two
years, which may be increased by the commission of fisheries, in their
discretion (and duly advertised), within which to remove his planted
oysters or shells from the said ground, and any person other than the
said holder, his agents or employees, going upon the said ground and
taking oysters or shells therefrom before the expiration of the time
allowed said holder, shall be deemed guilty of larceny thereof, and
shall be punished as provided by this act for the larceny of oysters. .