Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1892-03-18
THE STOCK Law.
TO BE VOTED ON IN AUGUSTA COUNTY
NEXT MONTH.

TO BE VOTED ON IN AUGUSTA COUNTY
NEXT MONTH.
There is very general discussion going
on in the county over the stock law to be
voted Oh in Augusta during the month OF
April-the day of voting to be appointed by
Judge Stout Of the county court at his
March term Oh in vacation. We give be-
low copy of the law as passed by the leg
islature. 1t was introduced in the House
as, House bill No. All by its patrons, Del
egates Williams and Koiner of Augusta,
and was amended in the Senate by Senator
Echols-the amendments are in italics:
BE it enacted by the General Assembly of
Virginia, That it shall be lawful for the
county court Of Augusta county. or the judge
thereof in vacation upon the petition of at
least one hundred resident freeholders of said
county, who reside within that portion of Au-
gusta county lying between the Shenandoah
Valley branch OF the Norfolk & Western
railroad ON the East, extending from the
county line of Rockingham to the county line
OF Rockbridge, and line on the West be-
ginning at the Rockbridge county line on the
Middlebrook and Brownsburg pike and run
ming with said road to George Roses shop,
thence with that road to Saint Marks church;
thence with the Walkers Creek road by
Snemariah church down the Summerdean road
to the road forking towards Middlebrook.
thence along a road parallel with Middle
river to Joseph B. Trimble's mill; thence
along road known as the Mountain road to
the Parkersburg pike; thence with the Buffa-
10 Gap and Churchville road to the line be-
tween Baxter Crawford and G. A. Bear;
thence with a straight line by Baxter Craw-
ford to the Shirley house; thence with the
road to Farrer's house; thence along the Lone
Fountain road to Lone Fountain post-ofl ce;
thence West with the ChurchyiIle and Jen-
nings Gap road to S. B. Aliens house; thence
with the Parnassus road to the Warm Springs
and Harrisonburg road to Jacob Swartz's
house; thence with the said road to Stribling
Springs; thence with the Mount Scion road to
Walton's shop; thence along a county road
North of North River Gap road; thence fol-
lowing North river to the house of G. Ander-
son; thence North via Emanuel church and
Mountain View school house on a road known
as the Mountain road; thence to the Rocking
ham county line; TO subna6t to tie qualified
voters in the aforesaid described portion OF
said county the question as to whether there
shall or shall not be a stock law within the
aforesaid boundary. Said election shall be
held at some time during the month of April
eighteen hundred and ninety-two. No incor-
porated town shall be allowed to vote in this
election The said court, or the judge thereof
6n cac0t5on, shall prescribe the day and man
ner in which said election shall be held. Ii
it shall appear from the return thereof that
majority of the votes cast in such election are
in favor OF a stock law. then it shall be un-
lawful for the owner or manager of any horse,
mule, COW, sheep, swine, cattle, or any other
domestic animal, to permit said animal to go
at large upon any highway OF uninclosed
land in said boundary as before described, and
On the ecent that q mYoraty Of the gotes cast at
sad election are IN t0u0r of stock l0ao this act
shall not be operGt5De fora period cartier than
three months from the date Of said election, said
time to be fred By the coat1ty court or the Judge
thereof IN gaC0tion. Any violation Of this act
shall subject the owner or manager of such
animal to the provisions of sections two thou
sand and forty-tWo, two thousand and forty
nine. and two thousand and fifty of the Code
of Virginia. Nothing in this act shall be
construed as eXemptlng any railroad corpora
ton from the present laws as to killing or
injury to any live stock within the aforesaid
boundry. This act shall apply only to the
territory herein described.
2. This act shall take effect from ats passage"
Section 2042, above referred to, which
formerly provided for the forfeiture of the
animal and fning Of the owner was amend
ed by the legislature of 1Ss7-s, and now
provides that for all damage by cattle, &C..
trespassing on land within what has been
constituted lawful fence, the owner of the
cattle, &C., shall be liable to the owner Oh
tenant of the land for any damage sustain
ed, and for every succeeding trespass shall
be liable for double damages.
Section 2049 makes it unlawful for cattle
to trespass within the boundaries of land
which have been constituted a lawful
fence.
Section 2O50 provides that the owner of
the animal if it escape from another coun-
ty and comes into one where there are
boundaries constituting a lawful fence,
shall not be liable for damages by the animal
except the land be enclosed by fence 5
feet high.
The bill, 10y the territory described there
in, exempts from its operation the noun
tain land in the county.