Chap. 272.—An ACT to provide for a preliminary survey of the State highway
system of roads, and certain other surveys. {H B 462

Approved March 19, 1920.

Whereas, there has been established by the general assembly of
Virginia by an act approved January thirty-first, nineteen hundred
and eighteen, a State highway system, which embraces more than
three thousand miles of roadway; and

Whereas, there are now from time to time being made sectional
and disconnected surveys of roads composing parts of said system,
without definite reference to the system as a whole, and there is no
data available upon which more than an approximation may be made
of the actual cost of the system as a whole, or the allocation of the
funds for the building of the same, as well as there being strong
probability of expensive blunders being made in the location of said
roads when done in detached sections; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
State highway commissioner be, and he is hereby, authorized and
directed to take up the location work systematically upon the east
and west and north and south lines of said system, and employ parties
of location engineers and make a preliminary survey of said system
as speedily as may be. Where there are already controversies as to
the routing of parts of said system, surveys of the several routes in
controversy shall be made when considered necessary or expedient
by the highway commissioner, along with the general survey of said
system to determine the relative mileage and cost of the proposed
‘outes in controversy.

2. For the purpose of. carrying out the provisions of this act the
sum of twenty thousand dollars per annum, or so much thereof as may
ye necessary, is hereby set aside out of the State highway system
‘onstruction fund. , ,