Chap. 137.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 31 of an act entitled an
act to provide for the working of the public roads in the county of Char-
lotte, for the creation of district road boards in said county, and for
the repeal of all acts in conflict therewith, approved March 20, 1916.

{H B 182]
Approved March 13, 1918.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion thirty-one of an act entitled an act to provide for the working
of the public roads in the county of Charlotte, approved March
tenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, be re-enacted to read as follows:

Section 31. If the owner or tenant of any such land shall think
himself injured thereby, and the said superintendent of roads, or
said road commissioner cannot agree with owner or tenant by rea-
son of taking wood, stone, gravel or earth from his land, the said
general superintendent of roads, or a said road commissioner, shall
make application to a justice of the peace of the district in which
the wood, stone, gravel or earth is situated, to issue a warrant to
five disinterested freeholders, any three of whom may act, requir-
ing them to view the land, and ascertain what is a just compensation
to such owner or tenant for said wood, stone, gravel or earth. The
said freeholders, each taking an oath before a justice of the peace
to faithfully and impartially discharge their duties as viewers, shall,
after giving to the owner or tenant five days’ notice in writing,
ascertain such compensation and report the same to the district road
board of the district in which the land is located. The said free-
holders in ascertaining the compensation to the owner or tenant
shall take into consideration the convenience and inconvenience that
may result to the owner or tenant from building or repairing the
road on which said wood, stone, gravel or earth is used. The dis-
trict road board may allow full amount reported by the said free-
holders or so much thereof as upon investigation they may deem
reasonable, subject to such owners’ or tenants’ right to appeal to
the board of supervisors of Charlotte county, and from the board
of supervisors to the circuit court of Charlotte county. Provided,
that no appeal, either to the board of supervisors or to the circuit
court, shall prevent the general superintendent or commissioner of
roads of the said district from taking the said wood, stone, grave!
or earth, which they may deem necessary for the repairing or build-
ing of the public roads in the said district.
2, It being necessary to take stone, gravel, wood or earth in

repairing the public roads in the county of Charlotte, an emergency
is declared to exist, and this act shall be in force from its passage.