CHAP. 282.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of chapter 61
of the Code of Virginia in relation to turnpike companies.

Approved March 9, 1°80.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section eight of chapter sixty-one of the Code of Virginia be
and the same is hereby amended and re-enacted so as to read
as follows:

§ 8. 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 freeholders, not living on said road, to
meet on said section at a day specified and examine the same,
ten days’ notice of such application to be given to the presi-
dent or one of the directors of said road; or if it be a state
road, the superintendent thereof and the said court shall appoint
such viewers of said road if, upon the hearing of said petition,
the same shall appear reasonable and proper. And it shall be
the duty of the judge of the county court of any county in
which there may be a turnpike road, upon which tolls are
charged, three times a year, to-wit: at the January, May and
September terms of his court to appoint three such viewers for
each of such turnpike roads in his county, who shall examine
the same, and be paid by the company or the county as pro-
vided in section eleven of this chapter; and proceedings under
said order of the court shall be in all respects as now provided
for by sections nine, ten, eleven and twelve of this chapter, ex-
cept that in the case of any turnpike road owned by the state,
she report of the viewers, if against the road, shall be to the
poard of public works, and that fact certified to the court and
the costs paid as the court may direct.

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