Chap. 452.—An ACT to declare certain specified grounds in Mobjack bay in
Gloucester county a part of the natural oyster rocks, beds and shoals, sub-
ject to any existing rights of any lessees of said ground. [H B 24%]

Approved March 26, 1928

Whereas certain natural oyster rocks, beds and shoals in Mobjack
bav were, by oversight, omitted from the Baylor survey; now, there-
fore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
following grounds in Mobjack bay, in the county of Gloucester, to-wit:
First, a lot of oyster planting ground containing two hundred and
eighteen and seventy-five-one-hundredths acres, surveyed by Fred E.
Reudiger, civil engineer, and assigned to F. W. Darling by Geo. B.
Taliaferro, oyster inspector, by an assignment recorded in oyster plat
book number four, page thirty-one, in the clerk’s office of Gloucester
county, Virginia; second, those portions of a lot of oyster ground sur-
veyed by Fred E. Reudiger, civil engineer, and assigned to J. Wev-
mouth by Geo. B. Taliaferro, oyster inspector, by his assignment
recorded in oyster plat book number four, page thirty-five, in the
clerk’s office of Gloucester county, Virginia, and of a lot of oyster
ground surveyed by Fred E. Reudiger, civil engineer, and assigned to
S. J. Watson by Geo. B. Taliaferro, oyster inspector, by an assignment
recorded in oyster plat book number four, page thirty-one, in the
clerk’s office of Gloucester county, Virginia, which two said portions
of the two said lots adjoin the two hundred and eighteen and seventv-
five-one-hundredths acre lot of oyster ground, above described, which
was assigned to F. W. Darling and which two said portions are cut
off from the residue of the said Weymouth’s and Watson’s lots of
oyster ground, above described, by a line beginning where the boundary
of J. Weymouth’s ground, which runs north forty-seven degrees thirtv-
two minutes east, seventy-eight and sixty-one-hundredths chains, inter-
sects the boundary of F. W. Darling’s ground, which runs south forty-
two degrees east, thirty chains, and from this point of intersection
running south forty-two degrees east, until it intersects with the line
of S. J. Watson’s ground, which runs south fifty-one degrees twenty-
six minutes west, one hundred and thirteen and seventy-nine-one-hun-
dredths chains; these portions of the said Weymouth’s and Watson's
lots of oyster ground are cut off by the boundary line hereinhefore
described without regard to acreage thereof, the acreage is estimated
not to exceed fifty acres; shall be regarded, deemed and taken to he
natural oyster rocks, beds and shoals as fully and effectually to all
intents and purposes as if the same had originally been included
within the limits and houndaries of the Baylor survey of the natural
ovster rocks, beds and shoals in the waters of the Commonwealth and
sulject in all respects to the laws of the State in relation to natural
ovster rocks, beds and shoals and the taking of oysters therefrom, but
subject also to the existing rights of any lessees of said ground, if
there still be any such right.
ade to the commissioner of
fisheries by shuckers and packers of oysters, clams and scallops, buyers of
oysters in barrels, planters of oysters, buyers and shippers of clams and
scallops, crab picking and crating houses, crab canning and packing houses,
and buyers and shippers of fish. [H B 248]

Approved March 26, 1928

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That each
shucker or packer of ovsters, clams and scallops. buyer of oysters in
barrels, planter of oysters, buyer and shipper of clams and scallops,
crab picking and crating house, crab canning and packing house, buyers
and shippers of fish, shall, between the first and fifteenth dav of July
of each year, make a report to the office of the commissioner of fisheries
on blanks provided by the commissioner, the amounts of sea foods pur-
chased, planted, shucked. packed, put in freezing plants, sold in or
out of State, or otherwise handled, coming from the tide waters of the
Commonwealth, giving the number of men employed and any other
information that may be required by the commissioner of fisheries, in
order to enable the commissioner to keep a record of the output of the
tidal waters of the Commonwealth, and the valuation of same.

2. Any persons violating anv provisions of this act shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, be fined not
less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars.