Chap. 170.—An ACT Authorizing the Board of Supervisors of Fluvanna to
Construct a Ferry Across Rivanna River.

Approved March 22, 1871.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the board of
supervisors of the county of Fluvanna be and the said board
is hereby authorized to establish a public free ferry across the
Rivanna river in the county of Fluvanna, at Palmyra, from the
land of Richard A. Noel, on the southside of Rivanna to the
land of the ltivanna navigation company on the north side
thereof; and to this end the said board is authorized to supply
and furnish sufficient boats and fixtures: provided, that before
any such ferry be established a majority of all the supervisors
of said county shall concur in the propriety thereof.

2. Be it further enacted, That if a majority of said super-
visors shall concur in the propriety of establishing such ferry,
the same shall be and is hereby established, and the keeper
shall be required to keep one or more sufficient hands always
at the said ferry for the purpose of carrying all persons across
the said river who may desire to cross the same, together with
all horses, gigs, buggies, carriages, wagons, carts, etcetera, the
owner or proprietor of which may desire to be carried across,
and he shall be required to carry across all persons who reside
in the said county with their horses, etcetera, as aforesaid, free
of charge, in regular turn as they may arrive at the said ferry ;
and all others than citizens of the county shall pay him five
cents a head for persons and horses, and three cents a head for
all other animals, and three cents a wheel for all carriages,
buggies, wagons, etcetera.

3. If the supervisors shall fail to agree with the owners of
the land for the purchase or lease of so much as may be neces-
sary for the use of said ferry, for landing and the building of
an house for the keeper of the ferry, that it may be lawful for
them to proceed to condemn so much as may be necessary
therefor according to the provisions of the law in relation to
public highways, bridges and ferries.

4. If the said ferry be established, the board of super-
visors shall let the keeping of said ferry out to the lowest
bidder by the year, or until the bridge destroyed by the recent
flood shall have been rebuilt, and no longer. Said board shall
be required to take of said lowest bidder, bond with good se-
curity, in the penalty of three hundred dollars, payable to the
board of supervisors, for the faithful discharge of the duties
required of the keeper of the said ferry in the second section
of this act, and to make report of their action to the county
court, and to file said bond with the clerk of said county to be
preserved among the records of said court.

d. If said ferry be established, the said board of supervisors
is hereby authorized and required, at the usual time of laying
the county levy, to levy for the keeping of said ferry, and sup-
plying sufficient boats, upon all property now taxable in the
county, both real and personal, an amount suflicient to pay the
keeper of the said ferry the sum for which he shall have agreed
to keep the same, and to furnish said boats.

6. The bond given by the keeper of said ferry may be put in
suit, for any of the conditions thereof, by any person aggrieved
thereby, at his own proper costs and charges, in the name of
the board of supervisors, to whom the same shall be made
payable; and that the said bond shall not become void by
reason of the first recovery thereon, but may be put in suit
as aforesaid by any person aggrieved by any breach of the
condition thereof, from time to time, until the whole penalty
thereof shall be recovered.

7. The action of the board of supervisors in establishing a
temporary ferry for the accommodation of the public at the
point at which a ferry is herein authorized to be established, is

ereby legalized, and said board of supervisors empowered to
levy such sum as may be necessary to pay all charges and ex-
penses incurred in establishing and keeping’up such temporary
ferry. .
8. This act shall be in force from its passage.