Chap. 406.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of chapter 159 of the Act:
of the General Assembly of 1928, which chapter is an act to provide a genera
road law applicable in all counties of the Commonwealth, the section here
amended being in relation to hearings by supervisors, and notice thereof:
providing for appointment of guardians ad litem. [H B 248]

Approved March 24, 1932

I. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
four of chapter one hundred and fifty-nine of the Acts of the General
Assembly of nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, be amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 4. Proceedings on report, notice to proprietors and ten-
ants.—At the next meeting of the board of supervisors after receipt of
said report, unless the opinion of said board be against establishing or
altering the road, bridge or landing, they shall require their clerk to
issue process to summon the proprietors and tenants of the land on
which it is proposed to establish or alter such road, bridge or landing,
to show cause against the same. The summons shall be directed, ex-
ecuted and returned as a summons may be in other cases, except that
it may be personally served in the county on an agent or tenant of any
proprietor not within the same, and such service shall be equivalent to
service on such proprietor. And if any proprietor resides out of this
State and be not within the county, or have no agent or tenant known
to the board of supervisors or its clerk residing therein, or if the true
owners or proprietors of the lands, or any part thereof, be not known
to the said clerk or board, the said clerk or board may order notice to
all whom it may concern to be published for four successive weeks in
some newspaper having general circulation in the county, or posted at
the front door of the courthouse of the county on some court day, to
appear and show cause against establishing or altering the road,
bridge or landing, as the case may be. The cost of such publication
shall be paid by the county.

If any such owner or proprietor be an infant, or insane, or feeble-
minded, the circuit court of the county, or the judge thereof in vaca-
tion, shall, at the time the clerk shall issue the said process, or as soon
thereafter as practicable, upon the court’s or judge’s, own motion, or
upon the suggestion of any party in interest, appoint for such infant or
sane person, a guardian ad litem, who shall faithfully represent the
interest of the infant or insane person and whose fees shall be fixed by
the court or judge making the appointment.