Chap. 423.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled an act
authorizing the judge of the county court of Giles county to appoint a board of
county road commissioners for Giles eounty, approved March 5, 1804, excepting
from the management and control of said road commissioners any town that is
now or may hereafter be incorporated in said county of Giles.

Approved February 21, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
two of an act entitled an act authorizing the judge of the county court
of Giles county to appoint a board of county road commissioners for
Criles county, approved March fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 2. Said board shall have the entire management and control of the
working and keeping in repair all the roads of said county, and also the
building of new roads or changes in roads after any road has been estab-
lished or changed, as is now provided by law for the establishment of
new roads or the changing of same; except that said board of road com-
misstoners shall not have the management or control of any of such roads or
changes as may be within the limita of any incorporated town in the county of
(rules, or any town that may hereafter be incorporated in said county of such
touns elect to be excepted therefrom. The said opening, changing, working
or keeping in repair of said roads shall be by the appointment of road
overseers by said board as to all or any part of said roads, by chain-
gang labor or by letting to contract of all or any part of said roads or
otherwise, as said board shall prescribe.

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