Chap. 93.—An ACT authorizing the board of supervisors of Culpeper
county to adjudicate, adjust, and allow certain claims and demands
of George W. Cooper and the executors of P. C. Smith, deceased,
against said county for repairing and keeping in order certain sec-
tions of the public roads of said county.

Approved February 3, 1888,

Whereas the county court of Culpeper county, acting under |
the general road law of the commonwealth, did, in the year eigh- |
teen hundred and seventy-seven, let out to contract certain
sections of a public road leading from the town of Culpeper
to Berryville, to G. W. Cooper and P. C. Smith to be repaired
and kept in order for five years for the consideration
expressed in a written contract entered into between said
county, through its commissioners for that purpose and said
Cooper and Smith; and whereas by the subsequent proceed-
ings and order of said court it appears that according to the
decision of said court, said Cooper and Smith did faithfully
comply with all the stipulations and requirements of said
contract. But whereas a doubt subsequently arose as to the
validity of said contract so far as the county was concerned,
growing out of the fact that at the time said contract was
entered into by the said county court, the general road law
ot the state under which the court acted, had been abrogated
as to said county by the enactment of a special road law for
said county, which contains no such authority; and whereas
it has been since decided that said Cooper and Smith had no
relief in said contract against said county, but as the work
was faithfully performed and accepted by said county, they
may be equitably entitled to demand and recover of said:
county such sum as their work and labor may have been ‘
reasonably worth: therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That '
the board of supervisors of Culpeper be, and they are’
hereby authorized to adjust, liquidate, levy for and pay to
George W. Cooper, and to the executors of P. C. Smith,
deceased, such sum or sums as they may be reasonably enti-
tled to for the work and labor bestowed by them or their
testator in repairing and keeping in order for the space of
five years, or less, certain sections of the public road leading
from the town of Culpeper to Berryville: provided however,
there shall be no appeal from the action of said board in the
premises.

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