Chap. 186.—An ACT to provide for the erection and maintaining of watering
troughs for the use of horses and cattle on public roads of the county of
Bedford, and providing penalties for injury and destruction of same.

‘ Approved January 27, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That any person
or persons who may erect and maintain in good repair a public watering
trough of not less than six feet in length, twelve inches in width, and
ten inches in depth in the clear, of either wood, stone, or iron, and have
pure, clear water continually running into the same, except in hard
freezing weather, by pipe or otherwise, upon the side of the publie high-
way m “the county of Bedford, erected of sufficient height and of easy
access, suitable for watering horses and cattle, and approved and ac-
cepted at the option of the hoard of supervisors of said county, wherein

such watering trough may be erected, shall be entitled to receive from
the district road fund thereof a sum not exc ‘eeding five dollars annually,
as ae be agreed upon at the time of the erection “of such trough.

That on any public road in the county of Bedford, w here running
water cannot be supplied for such trough, any person or persons who may
provide for the purpose aforesaid by a pump or other contrivance and
keep the same in proper repair to he worked by the persons desiring
water for their horses or cattle, may erect such pump or other con-
trivance and trough, to be approved of and accepted by the board of
supervisors of said county, shall be entitled to the same annual pay from
the read fund as provided for in the first section of this act.

3. That whenever any person or persons who are in possession of
running water, or where water might be supphed easily by a pump or
other contrivance that might be made available for the purposes of the
provisions of this act, who neglect to accept the same, the board of su-
pervisors of said county may, with the consent of the owners or oceu-
pants thereof, erect such troughs and keep the same in proper repair,
at an annual expense not to exceed that provided for by the first seetion
of te act.

That whenever any watering trough is erected for the purposes
aforesaid. the same shall be public property; and any person or persons
wantonly destroying or injuring the same, or committing a nuisance upon
or near the same, shall be deemed ouilty of a misdemeanor, and on con-
viction thereof shall be fined in a sum not exceeding twenty dollars.

5. This act shall be in foree from its passage.