Chap. 381.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 15 of an act entitled an
act to provide a special road law for the county of Fauquier; to provide
for the working and keeping in repair of the public roads in said county
and to create separate district road boards in each of the several magis-
terial districts thereof; to authorize the erection of toll gates and the
collection of tolls upon certain public rouds therein, and making certain
provisions for the enforcement and collection of said tolls and the pro-
tection of the said roads, and the property of said district road boards,
and providing certain penalties for the violation thereof, and to repeal
all special acts heretofore enacted in reference to the public roads of
said county, and to validate the official acts of certain officers under laws
heretofore in effect in said county, approved February 2, 1915, and to
prescribe a penalty for the violation thereof; and to add an independent
section thereto, numbered 1514, so as to require the owners or occu-
pants of land abutting on any public road to keep the same free from
certain obstructions, approved February 2, 1915, as amended by an act
approved March 20, 1916. [S B 387]

Approved March 16, 1918.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion fifteen of an act entitled an act to provide a special road law
for the county of Fauquier; to provide for the working and keep-
ing in repair of the public roads in said county and to create sepa-
rate district road boards in each of the several magisterial dis-
tricts thereof; to authorize the erection of toll gates and the col-
lection of tolls upon certain public roads therein, and making cer-
tain provisions for the enforcement and collection of said tolls and
the protection of the said roads, and the property of said district
road board, and providing certain penalties for the violation there-
of, and to repeal all special acts heretofore enacted in reference
to the public roads of said county, and to validate the official acts
of certain officers under laws heretofore in effect in said county,
approved February second, nineteen hundred and fifteen, and to
prescribe a penalty for the violation thereof; and to add an inde-
pendent section thereto, numbered fifteen and a half, so as to
require the owners or occupants of land abutting on any public
road to keep the same free from certain obstructions, approved
February second, nineteen hundred and fifteen, as amended by an
act approved March twentieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 15. Any lumber company, corporation, person or per-
sons, engaged in the lumber business and hauling mill logs, lum-
ber ties, piling or other like products, by means of their own equip-
ment or by equipment hired from others, over any of the public
roads of the county of Fauquier, shall pay a license tax of ten dol-
lars per annum, together with such further sum as may be fixed
upon by the board of superivsors of said county, not to exceed one-
half of one per cent. on every one hundred dollars of the gross
amount of business done by them in said county during each year.

Such license shall be assessable on the first day of May of each
year, and shall be for the period of one year thereafter, and shall
be assessed by the commissioner of the revenue of the magisterial
district in which said hauling is done.

It shall be the duty of every such company, corporation, person
or persons, or firm, to furnish the commissioner of the revenue at
the time when said assessment is made with an accurate statement
of the gross amount of business done in said county during the
previous year, duly sworn to or affirmed.

All licenses hereunder shall be payable to the county in which
they are assessed and the licenses assessed and collected hereunder
shall be paid to the treasurer of said county and placed to the credit
of the road fund of the district in which same are assessable or col-
ected.

The board of supervisors of said county when adopting this act
as hereinafter provided shall prescribe a form for the statement
herein required to be made to the commissioner of revenue.

Any person or persons, firm, lumber company, or corporation
violating any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor and fined not less than five nor more than fifty
dollars upon conviction for each offense, and each day in which
said hauling is done and each day of failure to furnish the state-
ment required by this act shall be considered a separate offense
hereunder.

Nothing contained in this act shall be construed to require pay-
ment of the license hereunder by the owners of teams or vehicles
who hire or let said teams or vehicles to any person or persons,
firm, corporation, or lumber company.

The provisions of this section shall not be in force until the
same shall have been adopted at a regular meeting of the board of
supervisors in said county, after notice of the proposed considera-
tion and adoption thereof shall have been published in some news-
paper in said county for two successive issues, and the adoption
thereof by the board of supervisors of said county shall be taken
to repeal any special or local, or part of any special or local, legis-
lation in conflict herewith and applicable to said county.

An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its pas-.
sage,