Chap. 219.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved January 29,
1898, by inserting clause number 43, to prevent the obstruction of public
roads in the counties of Buchanan and Dickenson, and to provide for the
erection of toll gates. (H. B. 283.)

Approved March 24, 1914.

” 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
“an act entitled an act to prevent the obstruction of public roads in
the counties of Buchanan and Dickenson, approved January twenty-
* ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, relating to the preven-
“ tion or obstruction of public roads in the counties of Buchanan and
: Dickenson, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

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
* gounties of Buchanan and Dickenson, by felling trees or placing
“ timber in the same. and by placing any other obstruction in or on
i the right of way of same to the injury of the road or inconvenience
“ of the traveling public.
if 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.
i! 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
é injure the same shall be required to repair the same. Should such
i injury remain, 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
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof
shall be fined not less than five nor more than one hundred dollar:
for each offense; and the fact that the fence or other like obstruc-
tion being permitted 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 of the premises; provided, the board of super-
visors of said counties may contract along and across the right of
way of said roads for the building of tramways, said contract to be
in every case approved by the circuit court of said counties, the
same to be void unless so approved by said county court.

41. The board of supervisors of Dickenson county are author-
ized to establish toll gates on the public roads of said county, at toll
rates to be fixed by said board of supervisors and the money collected
by means of said toll gates shall be expended in macadamizing.
maintaining and keeping in repair the roads along which said toll
gates are established. Upen the petition of nct less than fifty free-
holders of any magisterial district in said county, the board of
supervisors shall establish such tell gates and toll rates for said
magisterial district; but an appeal from any such order may be
had to the circuit court of said county within ten days from the
entry of said order in the same manner as now provided for appeal:
from said board. Upon a hearing of said appeal the court shall try
the case de novo and shall refuse to establish or establish, such gate
and toll rates as to it may appear proper; provided, that there shall
be an appeal to the supreme court of appeals from any such order
of fie circuit court when an appeal would otherwise lie according
to law.