Chap. 221.—An ACT toamend and re-enact sections 12 and 15 of chapter 617
of acts of assembly 1893-94, entitled an act to provide for opening new roads
and building bridges, etc., inthe county of Rockbridge.

Approved February 1, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tions twelve and fifteen of chapter six hundred and seventeen of acts
of assembly, eighteen hundred and ninety-three and ninety-four, en-
titled an act to provide for opening new roads and building bridges
and working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges in
Rockbridge county, be amended and re-enacted, as follows:

§ 12. In opening new roads and building bridges costing less than
three hundred dollars, or in repairing bridges, such work may be
done by contract or otherwise. If by contract, any board of road
commissioners may prescribe such regulations and take such bonds
and security of contractors as may be deemed wise and best; but in
building bridges costing three hundred dollars or more, and in re-
pairs to bridges costing two hundred dollars or more, the general
statutes m such cases made and provided shall apply.

8 15. The cost of working and repairing the public roads and of
opening new roads shall be borne by the respective districts in
which they are located, as also shall the building of bridges costing
less than three hundred dollars, and repairs to any bridge costing
less than two hundred dollars. But shouldany great or unforeseen
damage casually occur by extraordinary floods to any road or roads,
and the road commissioner of the district or districts affected there-
by are unable, with the means and labor at their command, to re-
pair such road or roads, he or they may apply to the county court,
and the court, with the concurrence of the board of supervieors, or a
majority of them in meeting assembled, may appropriate such sums
from the county levy as may meet the exigency. All bridges costing
three hundred dollars or more shall be built by the county at large,
and all repairs to any bridge costing two hundred dollars or more
shall also be paid by the county.

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