Chap. 495.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section fourteen of an act entitled
“An act to provide for the working of and keeping in repair the public roads
and bridges of Page county, for opening new roads, and changing the loca-
tion of existing roads,” approved February 14, 1888.

Approved February 27, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
fourteen*of an act entitled an act to provide for the working of and
keeping in repair the public roads and bridges of Page county, for
opening new roads, and changing the location of existing roads,
approved February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 14. All applications or petitions for opening new roads, whether
for the benefit of one or more individuals or for changing the loca-
tion or width of existing roads, shall be addressed to the board of
supervisors, and the board shall proceed in the manner prescribed
in sections ten, eleven, and twelve of this act as to appointment of
commissioners, whose powers and duties, except as hereinafter
enumerated, shall be the same as provided in said preceding sec-
tions, and any person aggrieved by the action of commissioners ap-
pointed to open a new road or change an existing road shall have
the same remedy provided for aggrieved persons in section thirteen
of this act. The commissioners appointed to locate a new road or
change or widen an existing road shallemploy a competent surveyor,
who may be one of their number, who shall make a survey of the
route of the road as located or changed. Such surveyor shall make
out a report of such survey, giving the beginning and terminus of
said road, the various bearings and distances of the route surveyed,
and the widthand grade of said road. A plat of said road shall
accompany said report, and said plat and report, together with the
report of the commissioners, if said road be opened or changed,
shall be recorded in a book kept for that purpose by the clerk of the
board and properly indexed, for which the said clerk shall be paid
at the same rates now paid for recording similar papers. All roads
in Page county which have been used and worked as public roads
by the road authorities of said county are hereby declared to be in
all respects and for all purposes provided by law, public roads of
said county, whether the condemnation proceedings and other rec-
ords of the opening of said roads and the dedication thereof to
public use can be found or not.

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