Chap. 365.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 947 of the Code of Virginia.
Approved March 28, 1902.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
nine hundred and forty-seven of the Code of Virginia be, and the same
is hereby, amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 947. New road or landing; appointment of viewers; their report.—
When any person applies to the court of a county to have a road or land-
ing therein established or altered the court shall, and whenever, without
such application, it sees cause for so doing, the court may appoint view-
ers as aforesaid to view the land and report to the court the conveniences
and inconveniences that will result, as well to individuals as the public,
if such road or landing shall be as proposed, and especially whether any
yard, garden, orchard, cemetery, burial-ground, or any part thereof, will
in such case have to be taken, and in the case of a road the said viewers
shall also ascertain and report to court whether the said road will be
one of such mere private convenience as to make it proper that it should
be opened and kept in order by the person or persons for whose con-
venience it is desired.

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