28.2-640 - Declaring certain grounds in Mobjack Bay public oyster rocks.
§ 28.2-640. Declaring certain grounds in Mobjack Bay public oyster rocks.
The following grounds in Mobjack Bay, in the County of Gloucester, to wit:First, a lot of oyster-planting ground containing 218.75 acres surveyed byFred E. Reudiger, civil engineer, and assigned to F. W. Darling by George B.Taliaferro, oyster inspector, by an assignment recorded in oyster plat booknumber 4, page 31, in the clerk's office of Gloucester County, Virginia;second, those portions of a lot of oyster ground surveyed by Fred E.Reudiger, civil engineer, and assigned to J. Weymouth by George B.Taliaferro, oyster inspector, by his assignment recorded in oyster plat booknumber 4, page 35, in the clerk's office of Gloucester County, Virginia, anda lot of oyster ground surveyed by Fred E. Reudiger, civil engineer, andassigned to S. J. Watson by George B. Taliaferro, oyster inspector, by anassignment recorded in oyster plat book number 4, page 31, in the clerk'soffice of Gloucester County, Virginia, which 2 portions of the 2 plats adjointhe 218.75-acre lot of oyster ground above described, which was assigned toF. W. Darling and which portions are cut off from the residue of the Weymouthand Watson lots of oyster ground above described, by a line beginning wherethe boundary of J. Weymouth's ground, which runs north 47°, 32' east,78.61 chains, intersects the boundary of F. W. Darling's ground, which runssouth 42° east, 30 chains, and from this point of intersection runningsouth 42° east, until it intersects with the line of S. J. Watson'sground, which runs south 51°, 26' west, 113.79 chains (these portions ofthe Weymouth and Watson lots of oyster ground are cut off by the boundaryline previously described without regard to acreage; the acreage is estimatednot to exceed 50 acres), are declared public oyster rocks, beds, and shoalsas if the same had originally been included within the limits and boundariesof the Baylor survey of the public rocks, beds, and shoals in the waters ofthe Commonwealth, and subject in all respects to the laws of the Commonwealthin relation to public oyster rocks, beds, and shoals, and the taking ofoysters. Such grounds shall be subject, also, to the existing rights of anylessees.
(Code 1950, § 28-204; 1962, c. 406, § 28.1-150; 1992, c. 836.)