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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>74951</law_id><section_number>28.2-648</section_number><catch_line>Declaring certain ground in Mobjack Bay, in Gloucester and Mathews Counties, to be public oyster rocks, beds, and shoals</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="28.2">Fisheries and Habitat of the Tidal Waters</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="II">Tidal Fisheries</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="6">Planting Grounds</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="4">Restrictions</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The following grounds in Mobjack Bay, Gloucester-Mathews Counties, contained within the following boundaries are declared to be public oyster rocks, beds, and <span class="dictionary">shoals</span> and unassignable to any person for private use, in the same manner and to the same extent as if the rocks, beds, and <span class="dictionary">shoals</span> had been within the original Baylor survey:
		Beginning at the westmost corner of W. E. Belvin&#x2019;s 79.25 acre oyster ground lease, designated as corner No. 2 of said lease, said point of beginning also being the northmost corner of additional Public Ground area of 1928, Gloucester County (Deep Rock); thence in a northerly direction along the west side of the said Belvin lease to corner No. 1 of said lease, corner No. 1 also being the southmost corner of John Carr&#x2019;s 84.85 acre oyster ground lease; thence in a northwesterly direction along the southwest side of John R. Carr&#x2019;s 84.85 acre oyster ground lease to corner No. 1 of said oyster ground lease; thence in a general northeasterly direction along the northwest side of John R. Carr&#x2019;s oyster lease to corner No. 2 of said lease, said corner also being the westmost corner of W. E. Belvin&#x2019;s 27.71 acre oyster ground lease; thence in a northeasterly direction along the northwest side of W. E. Belvin&#x2019;s oyster ground lease to corner No. 10 of said lease; thence in a southeasterly direction along the northeast side of W. E. Belvin&#x2019;s oyster ground lease to corner No. 6 of said lease; thence in a northeasterly direction to the southwest side of Public Ground No. 2, Mathews County; thence in a northwesterly direction along the southwest side of Public Ground No. 2, Mathews County, to a point, said point being the intersection of an additional area of Public Clamming Grounds, Gloucester County, with Public Oyster Ground No. 2, Mathews County; thence in a southwest course along additional area of Public Clamming Grounds, Gloucester County; thence in a southwesterly direction along the edge of additional area of Public Clamming Grounds in Gloucester County to a point; thence in a southeasterly direction along the additional area of Public Clamming Grounds, Gloucester County, to the point of beginning.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 28-204.6; 1958, c. 475; 1962, c. 406, &#xA7; 28.1-158; 1992, c. 836.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
