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ACTS.

CHAP. 1.--An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 3 and 4 of Chapter 102 of the Code of Virginia, second edition.

Passed January 25, 1866.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia :

Section third and fourth of chapter one hundred and two of the code of Virginia, second edition, are amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Restraint of dis

"3. Every person shall restrain his distempered cattle or sheep, or such as are under his care, that they may not go at large off the land to which they belong, and no person shall drive any distempered tempered cattle. cattle or sheep into or through the state, or from one part thereof to another, or over or across any public road in the state; and when any such cattle or sheep shall die, the owner thereof or person having them in charge shall cause them to be buried, with their hides on, four feet deep. If any person shall offend against this section in any respect, he shall forfeit four dollars for every head of such cattle or sheep."

Penalty.

Justices.

“4. Any justice, upon proof before him, that any cattle or sheep are going at large, or are driven in or through his county or township, in violation of the preceding section, may direct the owner to im- Enforcement by pound them; and if he fail to do so, or suffer them to escape from the pound before obtaining from a justice a certificate that they may be removed with safety, the justice giving such direction, or some other justice shall order them to be killed and buried four feet deep with their hides on, but so cut that none may be tempted to take them up."

CHAP. 2.-An ACT legalizing the payment of money by Superintendents of Schools to Treasurers of Counties for the use of Free Schools.

Passed January 29th, 1866.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia :

Payment legaliz

1. That the payment of money belonging to the indigent fund in the hands of the late superintendents of schools to the county treas- ed urers for the use of free schools be and the same is hereby legalized.

2. That the county superintendents of free schools are hereby required to ascertain, so soon as possible after the passage of this act, the amount of indigent fund remaining in the hands of the late county gent fund.

Drafts on indi

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