Chap. 160.—An ACT to prevent the obstruction of public roads in the counties of
Buchanan and Dickenson.

Approved January 29, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That it shall be
unlawful for any one to obstruct the public roads in the counties of
Buchanan and Dickenson, by felling trees or placing timber in the same,
and by placing any other obstruction i in, or on the right of way of same,
to the injury of the road or inconvenience of the traveling public.

2. It shall be unlawful for any one to place, or cause to be placed,
or permit to remain any fencing in or on the right of way of said roads.

3. Any one hauling over any of the roads in said counties with log
or lumber wagons, and by such or any other means materially injure
the same shall be ‘required to repair the same. Should such injury re-
main, and said road left unrepaired for forty-eight hours, the same will
be deemed an obstruction within the meaning of this act.

4, Any person violating any of the provisions of this act shall he
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be
fined not less than five nor more than one hundred dollars for each
offence. And the fact that the fence or other like obstruction being per-
mitted to remain for more than thirty days after the passage of this act,
it shall be prima facie evidence of the guilt of the owner or occupier ol
the premises: provided, the board of supervisors of said counties may
contract across and along the right of way of said roads for the build.
ing of tramways, said contract to be in every case approved by the

county court of said counties, the same to be void unless so approvec
hy said county court.

3. This act ‘shall be in force from its passage.