Chap. 267.—An ACT to provide for laying out and working roads in
Henrico county.

Approved March 6, 1882.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That it shall be
lawful for the county of Henrico to locate, open, change,
repair, and keep in order her highway roads and bridges as
follows:

2. That for each magisterial district in the county of Hen-
rico there is hereby created and established a board, con-
sisting of the supervisor and a commissioner of roads, which
board shall bave exclusive control of the roads, bridges, and
ferries within its limits, and all taxes levied for road pur-
poses and for building and repairing bridges, shall be ex-
pended in the said district where the same is collected,
except as may hereinafter be provided.

3. The judge of the county court shall, on or before the
April term of his court, appoint one commissioner of roads
for each magisterial district; his term of office shall be for
three years (unless sooner removed for good cause by the
judge), commencing on the first day of May succeeding his
appointment, and he shall reside in the district for which he
is appointed. And if the office of commissioner of roads
for any district becomes vacant from any cause, it shall be
the duty of the judge of the county court to appoint his suc-
cessor for the unexpired term; and the board hereby created
and constituted is declared to be a body politic and corporate,
and shall be known and designated as the board of commis-
sioners of roads for the Inagisterial district.

4. That the sub-road districts, as now laid out and
described by metes and bounds within the lines of said mag-
terial districts, shall remain as they now are, unless and until
they shall be changed by said board.

f §. Each commissioner of roads thus appointed, shall qual-
ify in the manner prescribed for the qualification of magis-
terial district officers, and shall at the time of his qualifica-
tion, give bond, with good personal security, in not less than
five hundred dollars, conditioned for the faithful discharge of
his duties, or on any repeated failure to perform his duty
under the requirements of this act, be shall be liable to
indictment or presentment by tbe grand jury of the county,
upon the proper complaint being made. Each commissioner
of roads, in addition to the qualification hereinbefore pre-
scribed, shall take and subscribe an oath that he is not and
will not become interested, in any manner, in any contract
for the constructing, repairing, or keeping in order any road,
bridge, or ferry let out to contract under authority of this
act.

6. That the commissioner of roads shall have charge of all
the roads in his district; his duty shall be to see that all the
roads in his district are of the proper width, and in all cases
whero they are not, to notify the persons trespassing, by
written notice, and if the obstructions are not removed after
reasonable notice, not to exceed sixty days, he shall remove
the fencing or other obstruction, and may recover the ex-
penses, with cost, from the trespasser, upon judgment of a
justice of the peace; he shall carefully examine the roads in
his district at least twice in each year, in the months of May
and October, and see that the roads and bridges are kept in
good condition and repair by the contractors; and if he shall

nd any contractor delinquent, he shall give him notice in
writing, and on his failure to comply with the law or his
contract, sball make the necessary repairs and enforce pay-
ment thereof as provided in section twelve of this act. But
if upon such examination, he shall find that such contractor
has executed his contract and performed his duty, he shall
give him a certificate to that effect, with a statement show-
ing the amount then due said contractor under the terms of
his written contract. The compensation of said road com-
missioner shall be two dollars and fifty cents per day for
each day, certified by him under oath as having been actually
and necessarily employed discharging his duties under the
provisions of this act, and to be paid by the board of com.
missioners of roads for the respective magisterial districts,
upon approval by the county judge.

7. That annually there sball be appointed by the said
board—not later than the fourth Saturday in May in each
year—one overseer of roads for each road district, not
including the principal public bighways leading out of the
city of Richmond, and hereafter to be mentioned, but for the
less frequented roads of said county, connected with ang
leading into said main thoroughfare, whose term of offic.
shall be for one year, beginning on the first day of July suc-
ceeding his appointment. He shall reside in the district for
which he shall have been appointed, and shall have charge of
all such roads in his road district, and he shall hold no other
official position. If any such overseer refuse to serve after
being appointed, or fail to work the roads in his district
where directed by the road commissioner, he shall be liable
toa fine, on presentment by the grand jury, not exceeding
one hundred dollars; but any person, after being overseer
for two consecutive years, may give up his office on pro-
ducing a certificate to the board from the road commission-
ers, or other satisfactory evidence, that the roads in his dis-
trict are in proper order; and he shall not within two years
thereafter be appointed overseer without his consent.

8. That his duty shall be to see that these lateral and con-
necting roads in his district are kept in good repair; that the
bridges are in safe condition; that the roads are kept free
from all obstruction; that all loose stones are removed; and
he shall contract for all tools and implements necessary for
working the roads, subject to the approval of the commis-
sioner of roads, and shall have custody of the same; and
shall perform such other duties as may be prescribed by law
or directed by the board of commissioners of roads. His
compensation shall be one dollar and fifty cents per diem for
each day sworn to by him as actually employed, subject to
the approval of the county judge, though not to exceed ten
days in any one year.

9. That the board of commissioners for each of the said
magisterial districts shall let to contract at public letting, to
the lowest responsible bidder, for the term of three years, all
the principal and main public roads leading out of and into
the city of Richmond—letting the same out by sections, not
exceeding three miles in one section—the contract price not
to be more than estimated by the board of commissioners of
roads; of the time and place of which letting they shall give
ten days’ notice by printed handbills, posted in at least five
places in each of said districts, and by publication in some
newspaper in the city of Richmond. The specifications of
such contract shall be such as will effectually and constantly
keep in repair, and clear of all impediments to safe and con-
venient travel, their said principal public roads; and they
shall embrace the making and maintaining of' sufficient
bridges over such streams and ravines as may need them; and
in every case that the bed of the road shall be raised in the
middle and slope gradually each way to the sides, when
ditches sufficient to carry off all the water shall be made and
kept open. :

10. That it shall be the duty of the road commissioner and
the supervisor of the district, within thirty days preceding
the day of public letting, as directed inthe preceding section
of this act (and within the same period of time preceding
the expiration of each and every term of years thereafter),
to lay out and divide the said prominent public highway
roads in their said magisterial districts, into convenient sec-
tions, not exceeding three miles in length, which they shal
number and describe in a book kept for the purpose. They
shall also therein distinctly specify what they deem necessary
for tho improvement and keeping in good repair the said
public roads, with an estimate of the amount of money which
it will require to improve and keep in repair each and every
section of the said roads, respectively, for the term of years
approved of and designated and provided for in the preced-
ing section of this act. The road-book herein provided for
shall be preserved by the board, and shall be open to the
inspection of any citizen of the county.

11. Each contractor shall sign his name, in a book to be
kept for the purpose by the commissioner of roads, to a con-
tract embracing all the specifications in relation to the roads
contracted for by him, as provided by the ninth section of
this act, as well as the contract price, the length of time con-
tracted for, and the number and description of sections con-
tracted for. All contractors shall give bond and security in
such sums as the board shall deem sufficient.

12. That if a contractor refuse or neglect to comply with
the law or his contract, upon complaint, the commissioner
of roads shall, as soon as practicable, examine the road or
section, and if the complaint is well founded, shall give
notice, in writing, to the party to make or put his road or
section in repair, according to law, or as the contract
requires; and upon his failure to do so, the commissioner
will proceed to put the same in order, and the expense thereof,
with the costs of suit, shall be recovered hy said commissioner
of roads, in the name of the board, from the contractor and
his securities, as other debts are recovered.

13. That if any section remain unlet by reason of there
being no bidder, or the amount offered be deemed unjust, the
said board of commissioners of roads may let the same by
private contract, the contract price not to be more than esti-
mated by the road commissioner and supervisor. And in case
there is no contract, the commissioner of roads shall direct
the overseer of roads, in whose district said section or sec-
tions of roads so uncontracted for may be, to take charge of
the same, and keep it in good repair and, for that purpose,
may employ such number of laborers, teams, wagons and
plows as may be necessary, and the compensation therefor
shall in no case exceed for such laborers, teams, wagons,
plows, and other implements furnished by private individuals,
the amount paid in ordinary agricultural laborin the magis-
terial district where such laborers, teams, wagons, and so
forth, are required. And in all cases the laborers on the
roads shall be paid or credited, as the case may be, by the
number of hours they are actually at work. And the ac-
counts so to be allowed and paid, must receive the approval
of the board of commissioners of roads for the district in
which said roads or sections lie.
14. That when any contractor shall die or remove from the
district, and shall have fully complied with the conditions of
his contract to the date of his death or removal, the board
may release the said contractor from his contract, and shall
let the sections for the remainder of the term in the same
way, and upon the same conditions, as the first letting.

15. That the clerk of the county court shall keep a road
docket, in which all proceedings in regard to roads in the
county court shall be kept of record.

16. That in case of a road or line dividing two districts,
the commissioner of roads of the adjoining districts so situa-
ted, shall divide the said road between such districts, in such
way as will equitably divide the expense if they can agree;
and in case they cannot agree, the county court shall divide
the same, and direct what part of said road shall be opened
and kept in repair by each district.

17. That the board of commissioners of roads for their
respective magisterial districts, shall annually, in the month
of July of each ycar, lay a road tax on all the real and per-
sonal property and licenses within their districts; which tax
shall in no year exceed twenty-five cents on the one dollar of
state revenue assessed on real and personal property, and a
like per centage on the licenses within the district, and shall
certify the amount necessary to be raised, to the commissioner
of the revenue, and shall extend the taxes against all property
and persons in the district levied for road purposes, a copy
of which shall be at once returned to'the clerk’s office of the
county court, and from the said copy, so returned, the treas-
urer shall make out his books for the collection of the said
tax. The commissioner of the revenue shall receive for
extending the road taxes the same commissions as are allowed
for the state revenue. All funds arising from taxation under
thin section for road purposes shall be equitably expended on
the entire length of the roads let out to contract or taken
charge of by the overseer of roads in the magisterial district:
provided that those citizens of the county who reside on or
near a turnpike road, with no other public road leading to
Richmond, and habitually travel the said turnpike, for which
they are required to pay toll, shall be required to pay only
yne-half the road tax generally levied. Butif for any reason
uch persons shall cease to pay toll to any such turnpike,
hey shall then be liable to pay the full rate of road tax, as
iereinbefore provided for.

18. That the treasurer of the county shall collect the road
ax, und deposit the same in one of the banks of Richmond,
vhich is a state depository, to the credit of the board of
ommissioners of roads of the respective districts for which
he same is collected by him. And in the payments to con-
ractors or otherwise, this fund shall be subject only to the
heck of the commissioner of roads, when endorsed by the
upervisor of the district. The treasurer shall be charged
rith the full amount of the road taxes levied for the year,
nd credited by all sums thus paid over in money or other-
wise, as herein provided. He shall, in the month of Decem-
ber of each year, give notice by posting handbills in cach
magisterial district, to tax-payers, requiring them to call on
him and pay their road tax. The treasurer shall receive as
equivalent for money, all accounts for labor, teams, wagons,
plows, materials furnish:d, or for services rendered in any
way, when properly certified to by the commissioner of
roads; these accounts the treasurer will turn over to the
board of commissioners of roads of the respective magisterial
districts, and receipted for as if paid in money.

19. That if any person shall neglect to make payment of
his road tax until after the first day of March, the treasurer
shall make out a list of delinquents, and the amount of taxes
due from each, and shall collect the same as now provided by
law for the collection of taxes; and should the treasurer be
unable to make collection by the first day of April, such
delinquents shall be reported by him at once to the commis-
sioner of roads, who shall require of all such persons, unless
the road taxcs assessed against them be forthwith paid, to
come out and work on the public roads in their respective
districts, not exceeding five days in a year. If such delin-
quents and non-payers refuse to work as required, they shall
be proceeded against in the same manner, and be subject to
the same penalties as persons not assessed with taxes: pro-
vided that where such persons perform work under the con-
tractor on the principal roads, a fair allowance for their ser-
vices shall be credited to the district in which they work by
the contractor.

20. For the purpose of keeping in order the roads not let
to contract by the provisions of this bill, all persons now
subject to road duty under the provisions of the general
road law, shall be required to work three days in each year,
under the overseer as before appointed, and failing to do so,
shall pay to such overscer seventy-five cents, per day, for the
employment of a substitute, and failing to do so, the delin-
quents shall be reported by the overseer to a justice of the
peace, who shall issue his warrant and give Judgment accord-
ing to law. ,

21. The board of commissioners of roads shall annually,
on the first Monday in June, audit, adjust, and settle the
accounts of the treasurer of the preceding year. They shall
charge the treasurer with the full amount of the road tax
levied, and shall credit him by the commissions, delinquents,
and all deposits made by him in bank, to the credit of the
several boards as aforesaid, for which he has the proper cer-
tificates of deposits and receipts. He shall receive the same
per centum for collecting road taxes as for collecting the state
revenue.

22. That in the event of any appropriation, by the city of
Richmond, to promote the objects contemplated by this act,
the same shall be expended on the principal roads leading
into the said city, in the same manner as the funds raised in
the county are expended thereon. This law shall not become
operative until adopted by the board of supervisors of said
county.

23. The general road law of this state, except so far as the
same is in conflict with this act, shall be in force in Henrico
county.

24. This act shall be in force from its passage.

Chap. 267.—An ACT to provide for laying out and working roads in
Henrico county.

Approved March 6, 1882.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That it shall be
lawful for the county of Henrico to locate, open, change,
repair, and keep in order her highway roads and bridges as
follows:

2. That for each magisterial district in the county of Hen-
rico there is hereby created and established a board, con-
sisting of the supervisor and a commissioner of roads, which
board shall bave exclusive control of the roads, bridges, and
ferries within its limits, and all taxes levied for road pur-
poses and for building and repairing bridges, shall be ex-
pended in the said district where the same is collected,
except as may hereinafter be provided.

3. The judge of the county court shall, on or before the
April term of his court, appoint one commissioner of roads
for each magisterial district; his term of office shall be for
three years (unless sooner removed for good cause by the
judge), commencing on the first day of May succeeding his
appointment, and he shall reside in the district for which he
is appointed. And if the office of commissioner of roads
for any district becomes vacant from any cause, it shall be
the duty of the judge of the county court to appoint his suc-
cessor for the unexpired term; and the board hereby created
and constituted is declared to be a body politic and corporate,
and shall be known and designated as the board of commis-
sioners of roads for the Inagisterial district.

4. That the sub-road districts, as now laid out and
described by metes and bounds within the lines of said mag-
terial districts, shall remain as they now are, unless and until
they shall be changed by said board.

f §. Each commissioner of roads thus appointed, shall qual-
ify in the manner prescribed for the qualification of magis-
terial district officers, and shall at the time of his qualifica-
tion, give bond, with good personal security, in not less than
five hundred dollars, conditioned for the faithful discharge of
his duties, or on any repeated failure to perform his duty
under the requirements of this act, be shall be liable to
indictment or presentment by tbe grand jury of the county,
upon the proper complaint being made. Each commissioner
of roads, in addition to the qualification hereinbefore pre-
scribed, shall take and subscribe an oath that he is not and
will not become interested, in any manner, in any contract
for the constructing, repairing, or keeping in order any road,
bridge, or ferry let out to contract under authority of this
act.

6. That the commissioner of roads shall have charge of all
the roads in his district; his duty shall be to see that all the
roads in his district are of the proper width, and in all cases
whero they are not, to notify the persons trespassing, by
written notice, and if the obstructions are not removed after
reasonable notice, not to exceed sixty days, he shall remove
the fencing or other obstruction, and may recover the ex-
penses, with cost, from the trespasser, upon judgment of a
justice of the peace; he shall carefully examine the roads in
his district at least twice in each year, in the months of May
and October, and see that the roads and bridges are kept in
good condition and repair by the contractors; and if he shall

nd any contractor delinquent, he shall give him notice in
writing, and on his failure to comply with the law or his
contract, sball make the necessary repairs and enforce pay-
ment thereof as provided in section twelve of this act. But
if upon such examination, he shall find that such contractor
has executed his contract and performed his duty, he shall
give him a certificate to that effect, with a statement show-
ing the amount then due said contractor under the terms of
his written contract. The compensation of said road com-
missioner shall be two dollars and fifty cents per day for
each day, certified by him under oath as having been actually
and necessarily employed discharging his duties under the
provisions of this act, and to be paid by the board of com.
missioners of roads for the respective magisterial districts,
upon approval by the county judge.

7. That annually there sball be appointed by the said
board—not later than the fourth Saturday in May in each
year—one overseer of roads for each road district, not
including the principal public bighways leading out of the
city of Richmond, and hereafter to be mentioned, but for the
less frequented roads of said county, connected with ang
leading into said main thoroughfare, whose term of offic.
shall be for one year, beginning on the first day of July suc-
ceeding his appointment. He shall reside in the district for
which he shall have been appointed, and shall have charge of
all such roads in his road district, and he shall hold no other
official position. If any such overseer refuse to serve after
being appointed, or fail to work the roads in his district
where directed by the road commissioner, he shall be liable
toa fine, on presentment by the grand jury, not exceeding
one hundred dollars; but any person, after being overseer
for two consecutive years, may give up his office on pro-
ducing a certificate to the board from the road commission-
ers, or other satisfactory evidence, that the roads in his dis-
trict are in proper order; and he shall not within two years
thereafter be appointed overseer without his consent.

8. That his duty shall be to see that these lateral and con-
necting roads in his district are kept in good repair; that the
bridges are in safe condition; that the roads are kept free
from all obstruction; that all loose stones are removed; and
he shall contract for all tools and implements necessary for
working the roads, subject to the approval of the commis-
sioner of roads, and shall have custody of the same; and
shall perform such other duties as may be prescribed by law
or directed by the board of commissioners of roads. His
compensation shall be one dollar and fifty cents per diem for
each day sworn to by him as actually employed, subject to
the approval of the county judge, though not to exceed ten
days in any one year.

9. That the board of commissioners for each of the said
magisterial districts shall let to contract at public letting, to
the lowest responsible bidder, for the term of three years, all
the principal and main public roads leading out of and into
the city of Richmond—letting the same out by sections, not
exceeding three miles in one section—the contract price not
to be more than estimated by the board of commissioners of
roads; of the time and place of which letting they shall give
ten days’ notice by printed handbills, posted in at least five
places in each of said districts, and by publication in some
newspaper in the city of Richmond. The specifications of
such contract shall be such as will effectually and constantly
keep in repair, and clear of all impediments to safe and con-
venient travel, their said principal public roads; and they
shall embrace the making and maintaining of' sufficient
bridges over such streams and ravines as may need them; and
in every case that the bed of the road shall be raised in the
middle and slope gradually each way to the sides, when
ditches sufficient to carry off all the water shall be made and
kept open. :

10. That it shall be the duty of the road commissioner and
the supervisor of the district, within thirty days preceding
the day of public letting, as directed inthe preceding section
of this act (and within the same period of time preceding
the expiration of each and every term of years thereafter),
to lay out and divide the said prominent public highway
roads in their said magisterial districts, into convenient sec-
tions, not exceeding three miles in length, which they shal
number and describe in a book kept for the purpose. They
shall also therein distinctly specify what they deem necessary
for tho improvement and keeping in good repair the said
public roads, with an estimate of the amount of money which
it will require to improve and keep in repair each and every
section of the said roads, respectively, for the term of years
approved of and designated and provided for in the preced-
ing section of this act. The road-book herein provided for
shall be preserved by the board, and shall be open to the
inspection of any citizen of the county.

11. Each contractor shall sign his name, in a book to be
kept for the purpose by the commissioner of roads, to a con-
tract embracing all the specifications in relation to the roads
contracted for by him, as provided by the ninth section of
this act, as well as the contract price, the length of time con-
tracted for, and the number and description of sections con-
tracted for. All contractors shall give bond and security in
such sums as the board shall deem sufficient.

12. That if a contractor refuse or neglect to comply with
the law or his contract, upon complaint, the commissioner
of roads shall, as soon as practicable, examine the road or
section, and if the complaint is well founded, shall give
notice, in writing, to the party to make or put his road or
section in repair, according to law, or as the contract
requires; and upon his failure to do so, the commissioner
will proceed to put the same in order, and the expense thereof,
with the costs of suit, shall be recovered hy said commissioner
of roads, in the name of the board, from the contractor and
his securities, as other debts are recovered.

13. That if any section remain unlet by reason of there
being no bidder, or the amount offered be deemed unjust, the
said board of commissioners of roads may let the same by
private contract, the contract price not to be more than esti-
mated by the road commissioner and supervisor. And in case
there is no contract, the commissioner of roads shall direct
the overseer of roads, in whose district said section or sec-
tions of roads so uncontracted for may be, to take charge of
the same, and keep it in good repair and, for that purpose,
may employ such number of laborers, teams, wagons and
plows as may be necessary, and the compensation therefor
shall in no case exceed for such laborers, teams, wagons,
plows, and other implements furnished by private individuals,
the amount paid in ordinary agricultural laborin the magis-
terial district where such laborers, teams, wagons, and so
forth, are required. And in all cases the laborers on the
roads shall be paid or credited, as the case may be, by the
number of hours they are actually at work. And the ac-
counts so to be allowed and paid, must receive the approval
of the board of commissioners of roads for the district in
which said roads or sections lie.
14. That when any contractor shall die or remove from the
district, and shall have fully complied with the conditions of
his contract to the date of his death or removal, the board
may release the said contractor from his contract, and shall
let the sections for the remainder of the term in the same
way, and upon the same conditions, as the first letting.

15. That the clerk of the county court shall keep a road
docket, in which all proceedings in regard to roads in the
county court shall be kept of record.

16. That in case of a road or line dividing two districts,
the commissioner of roads of the adjoining districts so situa-
ted, shall divide the said road between such districts, in such
way as will equitably divide the expense if they can agree;
and in case they cannot agree, the county court shall divide
the same, and direct what part of said road shall be opened
and kept in repair by each district.

17. That the board of commissioners of roads for their
respective magisterial districts, shall annually, in the month
of July of each ycar, lay a road tax on all the real and per-
sonal property and licenses within their districts; which tax
shall in no year exceed twenty-five cents on the one dollar of
state revenue assessed on real and personal property, and a
like per centage on the licenses within the district, and shall
certify the amount necessary to be raised, to the commissioner
of the revenue, and shall extend the taxes against all property
and persons in the district levied for road purposes, a copy
of which shall be at once returned to'the clerk’s office of the
county court, and from the said copy, so returned, the treas-
urer shall make out his books for the collection of the said
tax. The commissioner of the revenue shall receive for
extending the road taxes the same commissions as are allowed
for the state revenue. All funds arising from taxation under
thin section for road purposes shall be equitably expended on
the entire length of the roads let out to contract or taken
charge of by the overseer of roads in the magisterial district:
provided that those citizens of the county who reside on or
near a turnpike road, with no other public road leading to
Richmond, and habitually travel the said turnpike, for which
they are required to pay toll, shall be required to pay only
yne-half the road tax generally levied. Butif for any reason
uch persons shall cease to pay toll to any such turnpike,
hey shall then be liable to pay the full rate of road tax, as
iereinbefore provided for.

18. That the treasurer of the county shall collect the road
ax, und deposit the same in one of the banks of Richmond,
vhich is a state depository, to the credit of the board of
ommissioners of roads of the respective districts for which
he same is collected by him. And in the payments to con-
ractors or otherwise, this fund shall be subject only to the
heck of the commissioner of roads, when endorsed by the
upervisor of the district. The treasurer shall be charged
rith the full amount of the road taxes levied for the year,
nd credited by all sums thus paid over in money or other-
wise, as herein provided. He shall, in the month of Decem-
ber of each year, give notice by posting handbills in cach
magisterial district, to tax-payers, requiring them to call on
him and pay their road tax. The treasurer shall receive as
equivalent for money, all accounts for labor, teams, wagons,
plows, materials furnish:d, or for services rendered in any
way, when properly certified to by the commissioner of
roads; these accounts the treasurer will turn over to the
board of commissioners of roads of the respective magisterial
districts, and receipted for as if paid in money.

19. That if any person shall neglect to make payment of
his road tax until after the first day of March, the treasurer
shall make out a list of delinquents, and the amount of taxes
due from each, and shall collect the same as now provided by
law for the collection of taxes; and should the treasurer be
unable to make collection by the first day of April, such
delinquents shall be reported by him at once to the commis-
sioner of roads, who shall require of all such persons, unless
the road taxcs assessed against them be forthwith paid, to
come out and work on the public roads in their respective
districts, not exceeding five days in a year. If such delin-
quents and non-payers refuse to work as required, they shall
be proceeded against in the same manner, and be subject to
the same penalties as persons not assessed with taxes: pro-
vided that where such persons perform work under the con-
tractor on the principal roads, a fair allowance for their ser-
vices shall be credited to the district in which they work by
the contractor.

20. For the purpose of keeping in order the roads not let
to contract by the provisions of this bill, all persons now
subject to road duty under the provisions of the general
road law, shall be required to work three days in each year,
under the overseer as before appointed, and failing to do so,
shall pay to such overscer seventy-five cents, per day, for the
employment of a substitute, and failing to do so, the delin-
quents shall be reported by the overseer to a justice of the
peace, who shall issue his warrant and give Judgment accord-
ing to law. ,

21. The board of commissioners of roads shall annually,
on the first Monday in June, audit, adjust, and settle the
accounts of the treasurer of the preceding year. They shall
charge the treasurer with the full amount of the road tax
levied, and shall credit him by the commissions, delinquents,
and all deposits made by him in bank, to the credit of the
several boards as aforesaid, for which he has the proper cer-
tificates of deposits and receipts. He shall receive the same
per centum for collecting road taxes as for collecting the state
revenue.

22. That in the event of any appropriation, by the city of
Richmond, to promote the objects contemplated by this act,
the same shall be expended on the principal roads leading
into the said city, in the same manner as the funds raised in
the county are expended thereon. This law shall not become
operative until adopted by the board of supervisors of said
county.

23. The general road law of this state, except so far as the
same is in conflict with this act, shall be in force in Henrico
county.

24. This act shall be in force from its passage.