The Countryside Transformed:

Whereas, the attorney general of Virginia rendered an opinion dated January twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and thirty, to the effect that the law under which the money collected for hunting licenses by the clerks of the circuit courts of Accomac and Northampton counties, and paid by said clerks to the Eastern Shore Game Protection Association

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That it shall be lawful to shoot geese, ducks, brant, and other wild fowl on the east side of the county of Northampton within the time prescribed by law-from battery or sink-boat, but this privilege shall only extend to citizens of said county and persons who have bought property for gunning purposes in said county.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That authority is hereby given to the commission of fisheries, to determine all applications made to it by any oyster planter for relief on account of the green gills or oysters too poor for market, and the commission of fisheries is vested with full power and directions, to give relief, if in its discretion such should be done by suspending the collection of rent to a given date.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act entitled "an act to amend and re-enact section two thousand and eighty-eight of the code of Virginia, in relation to hauling seines or setting traps in the waters of Accomac and Northampton," approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, be amended and reenacted so as to read as follows:

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section four of an act entitled an act to authorize Northampton county to borrow money and issue bonds for a sum not exceeding one hundred and fifty thousand dollars for the purpose of building public roads in said county, approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred and twelve, as amended by an act approved March twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Whereas there exist within the lines of the Baylor survey, defining the areas of public oyster rocks, beds, and shoals on the eastern or ocean side of Accomac county, certain limited aggregations of natural growth oysters and of oyster shells known as "rocks"; and

Whereas, the government of the United States, by deed of George W. P. Custis, dated the ninth day of June, anno domini, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, acquired title to a certain tract of land on the easterly side of Smith Island, in the county of Northampton as a site for the Cape Charles lighthouse
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