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ral assembly, shall be held to apply to the said Independent Bank hereby See ate, c. 58.
incorporated, substituting the name of the latter for the formeri and ex-
cepting such provisions as aro locally inapplicable or inconsistent with
this act.
5. This act shall be in force from its passage. Commencement.
CHAP. 04.-An ACT to prevent the planting of oysters within the limits of
the state by non-residents, and for other purposes.
[Passed March 29, 1851.]
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the twelfth section of Non.realdentsnot
chapter one hundred and one of the Code of Virginia, shall be so amended to plant oyaters
, In the waters of
as to insert the words or plant oystcrs, after the word terrapins, in the the state.
second line, so as to make it read take oysters or terrapins, or plant Forrelture
oysters in the waters thereof, and so as to strike out the words two merer.
hundred, in the third line, and substitute the words five hundred
after the word forfeit therein.
2. That if any citizen of this state shall be concerned or interested citizens pro.
with any person not resident within this state, in the taking, catching or htibtted rem
planting oysters within this state, or shall knowingly permit any person withnonVr'.'rII
not resident within this state, to take, catch or plant oysters in his name, dcnts in catching
file or planung
he shall forfeit three hundred dollars, one moiety whereof shall go to the oysters.
informer. t orfelture.
3. That no person shall be considered a resident of this state within Who to be
the meaning of this aict, or the chapter aforesaid of the Code of Virginia, deemed real.
who shall not have actually resided within the limits of the state cig tc ents.
months next preceding the time when the supposed offence may have
been committed; atnd in nIl questions that may ariso tis to residence
tinder this act, the onls probandi shall rest oil the defendant.
4. That section twenty-three of chapter one hundred and one of the Repealing clause.
Code of Virginia be and the same is hereby repealed.
5. That this act shall be in force front and after its passage. Commencement.
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CHAP. 65.-An ACT to regulate the sale of sweet potatoes in the county of
Northampton, and for other purposes.
[Passed Mlarch 31, 1851.]
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That in the county ofSwecet potatoes
Northampton sweet potatoes shall be sold and purchased by weight, and to e old by
weight In North-
the standard weight of a bushel shall be sixty-five pounds, and of a bar- ampton.
rel one hundred and fifty pounds; and any person or persons in said
county who may sell and deliver, or purchase sweet potatoes in ally
other way than by weight, shall forfeit and pay for each offence a Penlty for viola-
penalty of twenty dollars, recoverable by motion in any court of record tion of law.
having jurisdiction, after ten days' notice of such motion: Provided, Proviso.
That nothing in this act is intended or shall be construed to prohibit the
farmers in said county from selling their crops of sweet potatoes by the
gross, patch or hill.
2. That the citizens in the county of Northampton be and they are Citizens of
hereby authorized to haul a seine or seines in the waters of said county, Northampton
allowed to catchl
during the months of June, July and August, for the purpose of catching tewivea in cor-
a fish known by the name of alewives; and if perchance any other fish tain monthu.
should be caught they shall be thrown overboard.
3. This act shall be in force from its passage. Commencement.
CHAP. 6.-An ACT imposing a tax on dogs in the coi~nty of Middlesex.
[Passed March 29, 1851.]
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That it shall not be lawful Number of dogs
for any person in the county of Middlesex to keep. or allow to be kept, dlnowed on farmn
on the same farm, more than two dogs, except the same be hounds, and .... .
in that case five may remain on the promises: Provided, That where
more tItan one family resides on the same farm, each family may keep
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