CHAP. 276.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled
an act to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2, 8, 11, 12 and 14 of an act
approved March 12, 1904, relating to the establishment, proper con-
struction and permanent improvement of the public roads and land-
ings, for building and keeping in good order and repair all roads,
bridges, causeways and wharves, and so forth, approved ah 17,

1906.
Approved March 17, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section one of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sec-
tions one, two, three, eleven, twelve, thirteen and fourteen of
the act approved March twelfth, nineteen hundred and four, re-
lating to the establishment, proper construction and permanent
improvement of the public roads and landings, for building and
keeping in good order and repair all roads, bridges, causeways
and wharves, and so forth, approved March seventeenth, nine-
teen hundred and six, to be amended and re-enacted so as to read
as follows:

Establishment, proper construction, and permanent improve-
ment of public roads and landings; for building and keeping in
good order and repair all public roads, bridges, causeways and
wharves; for control of county roads, and so forth, by a State
highway commissioner, board of supervisors, county superin-
tendent of roads, road sub-district boards and road sub-district
surveyors, and so forth.

First. Except in the counties where some special road law
in conflict with this act shall be in force, the boards of super-
visors, county superintendents of roads, road sub-district boards,
road sub-district surveyors of their respective counties, and the
State highway commissioner shall have the control, supervision,
management, and jurisdiction, as is or may be hereafter pro-
vided by law, over all of the county roads, causeways, bridges,
landings, and wharves constructed or repaired in this State;
provided, that such jurisdiction for the purpose of establishing,
altering, and maintaining roads and bridges, shall not extend
over the territory embraced within the boundaries of any in-
corporated town which cares for its own streets and bridges,
out the above named road authorities of any county may expend
4 portion of the county funds upon permanent road improve-
ment, such expenditure on the part of the county however is
imited to fifty percent of the total cost of such improvement,
and the building of bridges as provided for by law whether
yartly or wholly in such towns and the above named county
iuthorities shall have the same jurisdiction and authority over
uch improvements and bridges in such towns as elsewhere in
uch county.
496 ACTS OF ASSEMBLY. {VA.