Chap. 149.—An ACT governing the location of toll-gates on the Front Royal
turnpike company’s road, in the counties of Frederick and Clarke.

Approved January 27, 1896,

Whereas under the laws governing turnpikes and the collection of
tolls upon them, the said companies are entitled to collect full toll
for every section at the toll-gate for that section, whether the trav-
eler passes over the whole section or not, and if he passes over a
“fractional part of a section,” which means so much of a road as
does not, in the building of it, hold out to a complete section as is
provided in the latter part of section one thousand one hundred and
ninety-one of the code of Virginia, eighteen hundred and eighty-
seven, he pays the proportion of the “ fractional part” to five miles ;
if he passes over only part of the “fractional part,” he must pay for
the whole “fractional part,” as provided in section one thousand one
hundred and ninety-seven; and as the law nowhere fixes the place
where the toll-gate shall be located, and as it is a matter of public
notoriety that turnpike companies are constantly shifting their gates
on their roads as they determine is best and most convenient for
the collection of toll; and,

Whereas the Front Royal turnpike company owns a continuous
turnpike road, about eight and one-half miles of which is in the
county of Frederick and about two and one-half miles in the county
of Clarke, as well as a branch road running from the double toll-
gate, in Clarke county, to White Post, in Clarke county, a distance
of about two miles, making in all about thirteen miles of road owned
by said turnpike company : therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
Front Royal turnpike company be, and it is hereby, authorized and
empowered to locate on its said turnpike roads, at such places as to
it may seem proper, as many as four toll-gates in all, for the pur-
pose of collecting its tolls upon its said roads; provided said turn-
pike company does not collect on any section, or the “ fractional
part” of any section, more toll for that section, or that “fractional
part of a section” than is lawful to be collected on said section or
any “fractional part of said section.”

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