Chap. 575.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section six of an act entitled an act to
amend and re-enact chapter 573, acts of 1891-’92, entitled an act for opening and
keeping in repair the publie roads of Pulaski county, and to amend and re-enact
chapter 494, acts of 18!5-’96, entitled an act to amend the 3d, 15th and 19th sec-
tions, and to repeal and re-enact sections 14 and 17 of an act passed March 2,
1592, entitled an act to provide for opening and keeping in repair the public
roads of Pulaski county, approved January, 1898.

Approved February 28, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section six
of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact chapter, five hundred and
seventy-three, acts of eighteen hundred and ninety-one and ninety-two,
entitled an act for opening and keeping in repair the public roads of
Pulaski county, and to amend and re-enact chapter four hundred and
ninety-four, acts of eighteen hundred and ninety-five and ninety-six,
entitled an act to amend the third, fifteenth and nineteenth sections, and
to repeal and re-enact sections fourteen and seventeen of an act passed
March two, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, entitled an act to provide
for opening and keeping in repair the public roads of Pulaski county, be,
and it is, amended and re-enacted so ag to read as follows:

$ 6. That when a new road is to be made the commissioners acting for
the districts in which such road shall be, shall, with the county engineer
or some competent surveyor, locate the same so as to approach, as near
as possible, a three-degree road, if compatible with the best interests of
the county ; but no road shall exceed eight degrees for a distance
excceding fifty vards. Gates may be authorized and discontinued across
the roads along or near New river from Churchwood to Ingle’s ferry, the
proceedings to discontinue to conform, as near as may be, to the general
road laws of this state.