Chap. 287.—An ACT to Regulate Proceedings Against a Turnpike Road
out of Repair.

Approved July 11, 1870.

1. Be it enacted, That section nine of chapter sixty-one of
the Code of Virginia (edition of eighteen hundred and sixty),
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Ҥ 9. Any person or persons alleging that a turnpike road,
or any section thereof, is out of repair, may apply by petition,
in writing, to the court of any county in which said road may
lie, for a summons to three disinterested freeholders, not livin
on said road, to meet on ssid section, at a day specified, and
examine the same, ten days’ notice of such application to be
given to the president’ or one of the directors of said road;
and the said court shall appoint such viewers of said road, if
upon hearing of said petition the same shall appear reasonable
and proper; and proceedings under said order of the court
shall be in all respects as now provided for by sections ten,
eleven, twelve, and thirteen of chapter sixty-one of the Code.”

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