Chap. 883.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of an act entitled an act
to amend and re-enact chapter 573 of acts of 1891 and 1892, entitled an act
for opening and keeping in repair the public roads of Pulaski county, as
amended by an act passed March 2, 1892, and as amended by an act passed
January 25, 1898, as to right of appeal.

Approved March 6, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
eight of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact chapter five hun-
dred and seventy-three, acts of eighteen hundred and ninectv-one and
ninety-two, entitled an act for opening and keeping in repair the public
roads of Pulaski county, as amended bv an act passed March second,
eighteen hundred and ninety-two, as amended by an act passed January
twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, be amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 8. If the appeal is to the county court and the trial by jury the
case shall be docketed, and either party to an appeal may give ten days’
notice to the other party that a motion will be made to try the appeal,
and the court shall, on the day named in the notice, try the appeal,
without regard to its place on the docket unless good cause be shown
by the adverse party for a continuance, and if so continued, shall try it
as soon as may be thereafter. If within twenty days after notice has
been given to the landholders of damages allowed by original commis-
sioners viewing any proposed route no notice of appeal is filed in the
clerk’s office of the county court, then such landholders shall be deprived
of all rights of appeal. In all questions of damages the question of
compensating advantages to landholders shall be fully considered before
awarding damages for the opening, changing or extending of any road.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.