Chap. 118.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act to
provide for the working and keeping in repair the public roads in
the counties of Alleghany, Bath and Highland.

Approved February 12, 1886.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section five of an act to provide for the working and keeping
in repair the public roads in the counties'of Alleghany, Bath
and Highland, approved February twelfth, eighteen hundred
and eighty-four, be amended and re-enacted, as follows:

§ 5. It shall be the duty of the commissioners of roads to
give personal supervision to all the roads and bridges within
their respective districts; to see that the contractor is faithfully
performing his contract; and for any failure in carrying it out
the commissioner of roads of the district shall at once institute,
through the prosecuting attorney, proceedings for the recovery
of damages for the breach of said contract. And it shall be
the duty of every such commissioner of roads to cause the
roads in his district to be kept cleared, smoothed of rocks and
obstructions, of necessary width, well drained, and otherwise
in good order, and secure from the falling of dead timber
therein. He shall keep at the fork or crossing of every road
a sign-board, on which shall be stated, in plain fetters the most
noted places to which each road leads; and across each stream,
when it is necessary and practicable, a sufficient bridge, bench
or log, for the accommodation of foot passengers; and for
every breach of duty, under this section, he shall be guilty of
a misdemeanor.

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