Chap. 20.—An ACT to amend and re enact an act approved March
22d, 1871, entitled an act authorizing the board of supervisors of Flu-
vanna to construct a ferry across the Rivanna river.

, Approved January 14, 1878.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
an act approved March twenty-second, eighteen hundred and
soventy-one, entitled an act authorizing the board of super-
visors of Fluvanna county to construct a ferry across the
Rivanna river, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

§ 1. That the board of supervisors of the county of Flu-
vanna be and the said board is hereby authorized to estab-
lish a public free ferry across the Rivanna river, in the county
of Fluvanna, at Palmyra, from the land of Richard A. Woel,
on the south side of the Rivanna river, to the land of the
Rivanna navigation company, on the north side thereof; and
to this end the said board is authorized to supply and fur-
nish sufficient boats and fixtures: provided, 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 sball be and is hereby established; and the
keeper shall keep one or more suflicient hands always at the
said ferry for the purpose ef carrying all persons across the
said river who may desire to croxs the same, together with
all horses, gigs, buggies, carriages, wagons, carts, and 80
forth, the owner or proprictor of which may desire to be
carried across; and he shall be required to carry across all
persons who reside in said county, with their horses and so
forth, as aforesaid, free of charge, in regular turn, as they
may arrive at 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 whecl for all carriages, buggies, wagons, and
so forth.

§ 3. If the supervisors shall fail to agree with the owners
of the Jand, for the purchase or leaso of so much as may be
necessary for the use of said ferry, for landing and the build-
ing of a house for the keeper of the ferry, it shall be lawful
for them to proceed to condemn so much as may be neces-
sary therefor, according to the provisions of the law in rela-
tion to public highways, bridges, and ferries.

§ 4. If said ferry be established, the board of supervisors
shall let the kecping of the said ferry 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 secu-
rity, in the penalty of four 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 sec-
tion of this act, and to make report of their action to the
county court, and to file said bond with the clerk of the said
county, to be preserved among the records of the said court.

§ 5. If the 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
the said ferry, and for supplying sufficient boats and so forth,
upon all property now taxablo in the county, both real and
ersonal, an amount sufficient, with what may be collected
by the ferry, to pay the keeper of said ferry the sum for
which he shall bave agreed to keep the same, and to furnish
said boats and other fixtures.

§6. The bond given by the keeper of said ferry may be
put in suit, for a breach of 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 tbe 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 estab-
lished, is hereby legalized, and the board of supervisors em-
powered to levy such sum as may be necessary to pay all
charges and expenses incurred in establishing and keeping
up such temporary ferry.

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