Chap. 48.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 2 of an act
entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to pro-
vide for a road law for Spotsylvania county, approved February 21,
1898.

Approved February 20, 1912.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
sections one and two of an act entitled an act to amend and
re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for a road law for
Spotsylvania county, approved February twenty-one, eighteen
hundred and ninety-eight, be amended and re-enacted so as to
read as follows:

§1. That a commission of four persons, who shall each be
freeholders of the county of Spotsylvania, and who shall be
residents of the district or districts equally wherein the perma-
nent improvements are to be made, shall be appointed by the
circuit court of Spotsylvania county, or the judge thereof in
vaeation, by an order entered of record either in term time or
in vacation, which said commission of four persons shall be
known as the board of public roads for Spotsylvania county,
and in the event of a tie vote on any question before said board,
the same shall be decided by the chairman of the board of super-
visors of said county.

§2. The board of public roads shall have the power to change
the location of any of the roads in said district or districts before
undertaking to permanently improve them or may build a per-
manent road over a different route from that followed in whole
or in part by any section of any present public road which they
are charged with improving, and in event a majority of said
board decides to change the location of any section of road, the
said board shall appraise the amount of damage that will be
caused thereby to the owner of the land, deducting from such
damage the value of the benefit that will accrue to such land-
owner by reason of the building of a permanent improved road
upon his land (but in no case shall the benefit in such case to
the landowner be estimated to be more than the amount of
damage he will suffer), and shall tender such amount of money
to the landowner out of the road fund in their hands. And in
case the landowner shall decline to accept such amount of
money the board of public roads shall at once proceed to condemn
the said land according to law. And it shall be the duty of the
board of public roads to arrange for and provide land for a sup-
ply of rock and other road material for the building of said
roads, and their powers in this connection shall be same as in
the case of acquiring a new site for any section of road they
may decide to change the location of.

2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are
hereby repealed.