Chap. 47.—An ACT to empower the board of supervisors of Fauquier county
and the several district road boards of said county to use without the in
stitution of condemnation proceedings land for camp sites, storage yard:
or detours. [fH B 17)

Approved February 26, 1926.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
board of supervisors of Fauquier county, and the several district roac
boards of said county are each empowered to use, without the instt-
tution of condemnation proceedings, such lands as may be required
in connection with the construction, reconstruction or repair of such
public roads in said county and the several magisterial districts thereof!
as are now or may hereafter be permanently improved by concrete,
macadam, sand-clay, or other similar construction, for camp sites,
storage yards, or detours; provided, that no orchard, yard, graveyard,
or garden shall be used for such detour, camp sites, or storage yards
excepting with the written consent of the owner; provided, however,
that not in excess of two acres of land may be thus taken for any one
camp site or any one storage yard and not more than a thirty-foot
strip of land may be taken for use as a detour; provided, further, that
no land thus taken shall be held continuously for more than one year
and no camp may be placed within five hundred yards of the residence
of the owner or tenant occupying said land without the written consent
of said owner or tenant.

2. If the owner or tenant of any such land shall deem himself
injured thereby and the board of supervisors or the district road board,
as the case may be, or its agents, can agree with such owner or tenant
as to the amount of damages caused by said taking, they shall pay
said damages to the owner or tenant, as the case may be, but if an
agreement cannot be reached, then a justice of the peace of said county
shall, upon application to him by said owner or tenant, issue a warrant
to three freeholders of said county requiring them to review the said
land and ascertain and report what is a just compensation to such
owner or tenant for the damage done to him by such taking, the said
freeholders, after being sworn, shall ascertain such compensation and
report the same to the board of supervisors or the district road board,
as the case may be. The board of supervisors or the district road
board, as the case may be, may thereupon allow the full amount so
agreed upon or reported by said freeholders, or so much thereof as
to said board may seem reasonable, subject to the right of such owner
or tenant to appeal to the circuit court of Fauquier county as in other
cases,
3. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its pas-
sage and becoming a law.