CHAP. 222.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 17 of chapter
352 of the Acts of 1883-’84, in relation to providing for the work-
ing and repairing of public roads and bridges.

Approved February 26, 1886.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section seventeen of chapter three hundred and fifty-two of an
act approved March eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four,
entitled an act to provide for the working and repairing of
public roads and bridges, be amended and re enacted so as to
read as follows:

§ 17. All male persons in each county shall be compelled,
under the supervision and direction of the road surveyor of
their respective precincts, or his deputy or agents, to work two
days in every year upon some public road in their respective
precincts, not more than four miles from their place of resi-
dence, with the following exceptions, viz: ministers of the
gospel, regularly and actually in charge of a congregation,
persons under eighteen and over: sixty years of age, persons
who reside in a town that provides for its own poor, and that
keeps its streets in order, and any person who has lost an arm
or a leg, and any other person otherwise disabled, who may
for that cause be exempted by the certificate of the county
court, or a justices’ court of two justices; provided, that the
male persons of the town of Liberty shall not be required to
work the roads of the county of Bedford.

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