Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1885-02-13

dispositions de bene esss OF the commission.
ers making the same, or auy of them in q
like manner as other dispositions de bene
esse are authorized by law to be taken.
PROTECTION FOR THE RAILROADS.
:. If any person shall walk or remain on
the track within one hundl ed yards of an
approaching train. otherwise than in cross
Ing said road at public crossing, he shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor: or if any per-
son shall purposely ride, lead or drive any
horse, or other animal, upon any railroad
track, or shall Intentionally arrange for
any such animal to 60 upon any railroad
track, except In crossing from one side to
the other, without the consent of the rail-
road company, he shall be deemed guilty
of msdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof shall lie fined not less than twenty
nor more than fifty dollars.
FINES FOR DAMAGES TO THE FENCES.
s. Ii any person shall tear down, break,
injure or destroy any fence SO erected by
such rail- DAD company, he shall be guilty of
a misdemeanor, and shall be fined not less
than fifty nor more than two hundred dol
lars, and be confined in Jail not less than
six ncr more than twelve months, and in
addition thereto shall be liable to such
company for all damages resulting there
from. And no railroad company shall be
liable to suit for damages or injury to any
person, animal or other property on such
portions of its track or road way as shall
be at the time enclosed according to the
provisions of this act, unless such person,
animal or property shall be thereon by or
with the expressed consent aud permission
of the company.
PENALTIES FOR OBSTRUCTION.
g. If any person shall obstruct any rail-
road not fenced according to the proYis-
ions of this act, by placing or wilifuly con.
animals, by the killing or Injury of which
he might become entitled to recover un-
der this act, he shall be deemed guilty of
a felony, and on convictlcn thereof be
confined in the pe1itentiary not less than
one year nor more than ten years: provid-
ed that nothing contained in this section
shall be SO construed as to limit or inter-
fere with any right which any person
might otherwise have, to pasture lands
through which railroad may pass, or to
turn or keep thereon any animal or ami
mails aforesaid. No railroad company
shall run any locomotive, or allow the
same to be run upon it's track, without
having an approved spark arrester over
the mouth of the smoke stack of such To-
comot1ve. For any failure to comply with
this requirement, the company failing to
comply Herewith shall pay fine of ten
dollars for each offence, and shall be liza
BILE to the party injured, tor all damages
occasioned by fire communicated from
such locomotives : provided that such
damage was not Occasioned. in whole or
in part, by the contributive negligence of
the party injured or his agents.
10. This act shall be in force, twelve
months after its passage.
The first proposition for fencing under
the new law that we have seen made, is that
by the Peninsula road which runs from
New York down the eastern shore of Vir-
ginia, through Accomac and N orthampton
counties. That company offered the
farmers along its line of ninety miles, five
cents per running foot to have the fences
built, and seven dollars per 1000 running
feet to have them kept in good condition
thereafter in perpetuity. Most of the
farmers through whose lands the road is
built, 1t is stated, have agreed to accept
the terms, and soon men will be at work
along the whole ninetY-odd miles of steel
track, building fences. A majority of the
farmers, it is thought, will use wire fenc-
ing. It is estimated that the entire cost
of the work will be about $40 O0O