Chap. 47.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 9 of an act approved
March 20, 1875, entitled an act to provide for working and keeping
in order the roads of the commonwealth.

Approved April 6, 1837.

1. Be it enacted by the gencral assembly of Virginia, That
section nineof an act entitled anact to provide for working and
keeping in order the roads of the commonwealth, approved
March the twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 9. Not more than one acre of Jand shall be condemned
for any landing, and no road or landing shall be established
upon or through any lot in an incorporated town without the
consent of the proprictor thereof, or through the lands of any
cemetery, or through tbe lands of any seminary of learning,
without the consent of the owners thereof or the corporate
authorities: provided however, that in any case where such
incorporated town is, from any cause, without corporate
authorities, the county court of the county in which such in-
corporated town is located, may exercise the same powers
conferred by this section upon the corporate authorities of
such town.

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