Chap. 2.—An ACT to repeal section 19 of an act entitled an act to pro-
vide for the working of roads in the county of Fauquier, approved
February 24, 1876, and to amend and re-enact section 23 of said act
as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and
re-enact sections 23, 24, 25, and 26 of an act approved February 24,
1876, entitled an act to provide for the working of roads in the county
of Fauquier.

Approved August 23, 1884.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section nineteen of an act approved February twenty-fourth,
eighteen hundred and seventy-six, entitled an act to provide
for the working of roads in the county of Fauquier, be and
the same is hereby repealed.

2. And be it further enacted, That section twenty-three of
said act, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act
to amend and re-enact sections twenty-three, twenty-four,
twenty-five, and twenty-six of an act approved February
twenty-four, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, entitled an
act to provide for the working of roads in the county of
Fauquier, approved March thirteenth, eighteen hundred and
seventy-seven, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows: |

§23. That the board of commissioners of roads for their
respective districts shall annually in the month of July in
each year lay a road tax not exceeding fifteen cents on
every one hundred dollars of value of property, real and
personal, within their districts, and immediately certify the
same to the commissioner of the revenue for their respective
districts, who shall thereupon extend the said taxes in the
copies of his books to be delivered to the clerk of the county
court and to the treasurer of the county. Should any con-
tractor, under the operation of this act, be injured or damaged
by the repeal of section nineteen of the aforesaid act, entitled
an act to provide for the working of roads in the county of
Fauquier, said board of commissioners of roads shall hear the
complaint, and upon evidence before it, assess the damages
done the contractor, and pay the same out of the road tax
aforesaid. Should the contractor be dissatisfied with the
decision of said board of commissioners of roads, he may,
within thirty days, appeal as of right to the county court.
The board of commissioners of roads shall be summoned to
appear before said county court, the appeal be heard without

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formal pleadings as are appeals from the judgments of jus-
tices of the peace, and the judgment of the county court shall
be final. When the decision of the board of commissioners
of roads is reversed by the ‘judgment of the county court, said
board of commissioners shall provide out of said road tax for
the payment of the judgment and all coasts incident to the
appeal.