Chap. 316.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to establish
the State highway system, approved January 31, 1918, and to establish a
perpetual memorial to Robert Edward Lee. {S B 55]

Approved March 20, 1922,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an
act, approved January thirty-first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, en-
titled an act to establish the State highway system be amended and
re-enacted as follows:

Sec. 1. Washington, Lorton, Occoquan town, Dumfries, Stafford,
Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania Court House, Solomons, Richmond,
Petersburg, Dinwiddie, Smoky Ordinary, Lawrenceville, South Hill,
Clarksville, North Carolina line; provided that the road from Ash-
land to Hanover, Bowling Green and the intersection with route
number eight be taken over by the State for maintenance until May
first, nineteen hundred and twenty-four, only unless the highway
commission deem it necessary to maintain said road longer.

Sec. 2. Maryland line, Leesburg, Aldie, Plains, Warrenton, Rem-
ington, Culpeper, Orange, Gordonsville, at or near Palmyra point
near Carysbrook, Bremo, Dillwyn, F armville, Keysville, Wylliesburg,
Red Oak, Clarksville, North Carolina line, with a connection from a
point near Zion, via Hadensville to Oilville.

Sec. 3. West Virginia line, Winchester, Harrisonburg, Staunton,
Lexington, Natural Bridge, Buchanan, Roanoke, Rocky Mount, Mar-
tinsville, Ridgeway, North Carolina line.

Sec, 4. Maryland line, Accomat¢, Eastville, Cape Charles.

Sec. 5. Norfolk, Suffolk, F ranklin, Courtland, Petersburg,
Richmond.

Sec. 6. Alexandria, Fairfax, Aldie, Middleburg, Upperville, Boyce,
Winchester, Gore, West Virginia line.

Sec. 7. Westland, Kilmarnock, Lancaster, Warsaw, with branch
from a point at or near Warsaw or between Warsaw and Montross
to Heathsville and Reedville, and from Warsaw to Montross, King
George, Fredericksburg, Stevensburg, Culpeper, Washington, Vir-
ginia, Front Royal, Armel, Winchester, West Virginia line, with a
connection from a point in Westmoreland county to Wakefield, the
birthplace of Washington.

Sec. 8. Saluda, Tappahannock, Port Royal, Fredericksburg.

sec. 9. Old Point, Hampton, Newport News, Williamsburg, Provi-
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dence Forge, point near Mountcastle, Richmond, Mineral, Louisa, Tre-
vilians, Cobham, Charlottesville, Afton, Waynesboro, Staunton,
Churchville, Monterey, West Virginia line. This also includes the
line from Jamestown, Williamsburg, Yorktown, Gloucester Point,
Gloucester Court House, to connect with a line from the bridge at
Urbanna, Saluda, to West Point, Richmond, and from Gloucester
Court House to Mathews Court House.

Sec. 10. Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Suffolk, Smithfield, Surry Court
House, Petersburg, Blackstone, Nottoway, Farmville, Appomattox,
Lynchburg, Bedford, Roanoke, Salem, Christiansburg, Dublin, Pulaski,
Wytheville, Marion, Abingdon, Bristol, Gate City, Stickleysville, Pen-
nington Gap, Ben Hur, Jonesville, Cumberland Gap, with a connection
from Abingdon, Greendale, Hansonville, Bolton, and to route eleven
in Russell county, with a direct connection from Hansonville to Leb-
anon, with a connection from Appomattox to Vera through the sur-
render grounds, and a connection to Natural tunnel.

Sec. 11. Graham, Burks Garden Siding via Peery Place, Tazewell,
J. A. Crockett’s store, via River Route to Claypoole Hill, Indian Creek
Route, Rosedale, Lebanon, via Copper Creek Route, Old Court House,
St. Paul, Coeburn, Norton, Big Stone Gap, Pennington Gap, Jonesville,
Cumberland Gap, Kentucky line; a connection from Claypoole Hill
via Raven to Grundy ; and a connection from Coeburn to Clintwood and
the Kentucky line at Pound Gap, with a connection from Clintwood
to Fremont, Moss and Haysi.

Sec. 12. Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Suffolk, Carrsville, Franklin,
Courtland, Emporia, Lawrenceville, South Hill, Chase City, Halifax,
Danville, Martinsville, Stuart, Hillsville, Galax, Independence, to or
near Damascus, thence to connect with route ten, a connection from
Franklin south to the North Carolina line, and a connection from
the North Carolina line, via Hillsville, to route ten east of Wytheville,
with a connection from Portsmouth via Deep Creek, paralleling Dismal
Swamp canal to North Carolina line.

Sec. 13. Tappahannock, Richmond, Midlothian, Powhatan, Cum-
berland, Farmville, Lynchburg; thence west on routes ten and
fourteen. °

Sec. 14. North Carolina line, Danville, Chatham, Gretna on
western side of Southern railway to Altavista, Lynchburg, Balcony
Falls, point near McCormicks gate, Lexington, Clifton Forge, Cov-
ington, White Sulphur; with a connection from this route to Natural
Bridge ; with a connection from this route at Clifton Forge to Eagle

ock.

Sec. 15. Woodstock, Calvary, West Virginia line.

Sec. 16. Orange, Madison, Sperryville.

Sec. 17. Gordonsville, Stanardsville, Elkton, Harrisonburg, Mos-
cow, Craigsville, Goshen, Warm Springs, Hot Springs, Covington.

Sec. 18. Afton, Lovingston, Colleen, point near Claypool, Clifford,
Amherst, Lynchburg, Brookneal, Halifax, South Boston, North
Carolina line.
Sec. 19. Richmond, Rio Vista, Goochland to Dixie, point on
route number two of main line.

Sec. 20. Richmond, Amelia, point near Burkeville, Keysville,
Charlotte, Brookneal, and from Keysville to Lunenburg, Kenbridge,
and Blackstone.

Sec. 21 Following the Lee Highway from Key Bridge to Fairfax,
Gainesville, Warrenton, Sperryville, Luray, New Market; with a con-
nection from Luray to Stanley, thence to connect with route seven-
teen near Elkton.

Sec. 22. Salem, Catawba, New Castle, West Virginia line, with
a connection to Catawba Sanatorium.

Sec. 23. Stuart, Floyd, Christiansburg, Blacksburg, Pearisburg,
Narrows, West Virginia line.

Sec. 24. Emporia, North Carolina line.

Sec. 25. Warrenton, Manassas, Fairfax.

Sec. 26. Wytheville, Bland Court House.

Sec. 27. Norfolk, Berkley, Great Bridge, Hickory, North Caro-
lina line.

Sec. 28. Lovingston, Covesville, Charlottesville.

Sec. 29. The chairman of the highway commission shall pre-
pare and keep on file in his office for public inspection a complete
map, showing the routes located and established in pursurance of
the law.

Sec. 30. The said roads from and to the points designated above
shall be known as “The State Highway System,” and for the purpose
of establishing a perpetual memorial from the people of the Common-
wealth of Virginia, and as a part of the national memorial to Robert
Edward Lee, the following sections of the said system shall be desig-
nated and known as “Lee Highway”: Key Bridge, Falls Church,
Fairfax, Gainesville, Warrenton, Sperryville, Luray, New Market,
Harrisonburg, Staunton, Lexington, Natural Bridge, Roanoke, Salem,
Christiansburg, Radford, Pulaski, Wytheville, Marion, Abingdon,
and Bristol, with a connection of the Lee Highway from Fairfax,
Aldie, Middleburg, Upperville, Boyce, Winchester, New Market,
known as the Lee-Jackson Memorial Highway.

Sec. 31. The roads embraced within “The State Highway System”
shall be established, constructed and maintained exclusively by the
State under the direction and supervision of the chairman of the
highway commission, with such State funds as may hereafter be
appropriated and made available for such purposes, together with
such appropriations as may be hereafter made by any county, district,
city or town in this State and such funds as are now available or
which may hereafter be derived from the Federal government for
road building and improvement in this State.

Sec. 32. In undertaking the construction of roads on the routes
constituting “The State Highway System” preference, so far as prac-
ticable, shall be given to such parts of such routes as will form con-
necting links between permanent roads already constructed by the
State.and from the proceeds of bond issues or other county funds
contributed by counties or cities, or towns, to the end that equitable
consideration may, so far as possible, be given those counties, cities
and towns that may already have constructed parts of roads consti-
tuting the said system, and also to the end that through routes across
the State may be provided as speedily as may be practicable.

Sec. 33. All roads embraced within said system are hereby taken
over for maintenance by the State; said maintenance to be under the
direction and supervision of the chairman of the highway commis-
sion; but this shall not apply to toll roads so long as toll gates are
maintained thereon.

Sec. 34. Warrants for the expenditures of the funds appropriated
for the construction and maintenance of “The State Highway System”
shall be issued by the auditor of public accounts upon certificates
of the chairman of the highway commission that the parties are
entitled thereto, and shall be paid by the State treasurer out of the
funds appropriated for that purpose.