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An Act amending the Road Law of the Commonwealth. 1863 17 (1863.9)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsva0821 and id is 1 raw text is: CHANGES IN CODE.'--IRIAL OF FRIENDLY SUITS. 17 appoint a special term of the court, and to issue his warrant for hold- Warrant, when ing the same, as is prescribed by the twenty-ninth section of chapter *i4uud one hundred and fifty-eight of tile Code of eighteen hundred and sixty; at which term the court may cxerciseo tihe like jurisdiction as might be exercised under the said laws at a regular term of the said court. 2. The mode of proceeding upon presentments, indictments or in- atoI of proe- formations charging offences against the said laws, may bo as is now duro prescribed by law in such cases, or as prescribed by section twenty- third of chapter two hundred and seven of the Code of eighteen hn- dred and sixty, as to tlh otfences therein referred to, us the court may deem best. .3. This act shall be in force from its passage. Connen eniet CihAP. 2:.-Au ACT ameending the Road Law of the Commonwealth. 11as~ed October 3, 1 63. 1. 3e it enacted by the general assemlv of Virginia, that the s,,,on o er twenty-eighth section of thu fifty-second clhpter of tile Code of Vir- eliPtor 52 ff ginia lie amended and re-enauted iw asi to read as followhs : Co(nibantud.- ..§ '8. Every. erson appointed under either of tl;, two p)receding WVh.n VIw,,-urv to sectins, shall, either in person or by a suffhiient ubstitut, when re- Nv'rlz on rnede quired by the proper surveyor, attend with proper tools, and work the road on such days as the surveyor may direct. For every tiny onl l'e,,llileo for which there may ho a failure, not less than two dollar3 nor more than Cidirr four dollars, as a magistrate may determine, shall he paid to the sur- veyor within twenty tays thereafter, )y the perstmn in default, if a person of full age ; or it he he an infant, by his parent or guardian or if he eo it servant or slave, by his'overseer, if ho be under one; otherwise, by his master. If thm moneybe not paid, it shall be reco- verable by tie surveyor, with eoats, before a .tustice. Any money received by a surveyor under this section, after tile piy olent of costs, shall be applied to the improvement of the road of which he is sur- veyor : provided, that the ounty court of any county, the magistrates 1'rovino being duly suiniomied for the purpose, nmav have power to direct the surveyor not to call for hands to labor upon any road. whcnevel' the number of kInds liable to such call may be vo reduced in numnber as that their employment in work upon such road will i'tuse serious injury to the agricoltura! operations (if the people living in time vici- nity of said road : and provided further, that any order so made by tihe said court, shall he a liar to any proceedings against such s,, - voyor for a failure to keep his road in the condition required by law. 2. This act shall le in force front its passage. Oommencement CHAP. 24.-An ACT to provide for the Trid of Friendly Suits in Chanucery for Partition, &., arisig in Counties in the possision of the enemy, or threatened with lnViLnvson. Passed October 29, 163. 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, that whmemiever any When frlewy7 county or corporation in this state shall ie in ile possession of the sultls in ebiry enemy, or shall be threatened with invasion, or whenever the existing ao te .. ... . . . anothe couty¢ state of war shall make it diflicult or unsafe for the Jurisdiction of the courts to be exercised therein, all suits in chancery arising in said counties or corporations for partition, or for the sale and division of property, or any other proceedings in chancery, in which the rights of the parties tire not controverted, may lie instituted and proceeded in to a-final decree in the circuit court oft a county in an adjoining circuit not so situated : provided, that copies of all decrees entered in muh causes ehall be certified to the clerk of the circuit court of the When copiesto 2 be certified

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