Chap. 55.—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Sections 3 and 13 of an Act in
force 14th January, 1871, entitled an Act to Amend and Re-enact an Act
passed February 28th, 1856, Amending an Act for Working the Roads of
Loudoun County.

Approved January 30, 1871.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That sections
three and thirteen of an act in force the fourteenth January,
eighteen hundred and seventy-one, entitled an act to amend
and re-enact an act passed February twenty-eighth, eighteen
hundred and fifty-six, amending an act for working the roads
of Loudoun county, be amended and re-enacted so as to read.
as follows:

Ҥ 3. That the several township boards in said county, shall
meet as soon after the first day of January, eighteen hundred
and seventy-one, (but before the first day of March, eighteen
hundred and seventy-one,) as possible, and proceed to lay off
their townships into as many road districts as may be neces-
sary, and to describe the lines and boundaries of each dis-
tinctly.” |

“$13. That every petition for a new road, or to lay out,
open, alter, or change a public road, must be first presented to
the commissioner of roads of the township in which the road
is, who shall endorse thereon his approval or disapproval of
the same, and his reasons therefor, which petition and commis-
sioner’s report shall be laid before the county court at its next
term in open court, and the court shall appoint three discreet
freeholders to view the ground for any new road or of pro-
posed change. The county, or other competent surveyor, shall
accompany the viewers, and, if necessary, survey and map the
road. The whole number of viewers must view; but a majo-
rity may decide for or against, and they may view and make
report of, and estimates for any modifications of the route.”

2. This aet shall be in foree from its passage.