Chap. 56.—An ACT to provide for and to validate court proceedings in cer-
tain cases concerning roads.

Approved February 27, 1906.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That in any case
which a proceeding to establish a public road, or to discontinue a public
ad, or a gate across a public road, was pending in any court of original
appellate jurisdiction, on the thirteenth day of June, nineteen hundred
id four, and is yet pending, the same may be proceeded with to the final
termination of all questions involved, as might have been done if chap-
r forty-three of the Code of Virginia had not been repealed by chapter
e hundred and six of the acts of nineteen hundred and four.

2. The court, other than the supreme court of appeals, in which any
ich proceeding is or may be pending may appoint viewers to examine and
port upon the conveniences and inconveniences of the proposed route,
id of other routes, the quantity and value of the land required, the dam-
es which will be incurred, and any and al] matters upon which the court
ay deem a report desirable, and may, from time to time, appoint other
ewers, either before acting upon or after rejecting a report previously
ade, and may hear such legal evidence as may be offered for or against
\v application or report.

The court shall take such action on reports heretofore made as it can
ke on reports hereafter made, and all action taken by any court since
ine thirteenth, nineteen hundred and four, in road matters, in cases
hich were pending on that date, are hereby declared valid, subject to the
cht of appeal, or the right to move to correct errors, or to apply for a
w trial where such right has not been lost by the lapse of time.

3. This act shall apply to all proceedings begun under any special road
w which provided for proceedings according to chapter fifty-three of the
ode, or any section thereof.

4. To prevent the dismissal of pending proceedings, an emergency ex-
ts, and this act shall be in force from its passage.