Chap. 16.—An AOT to amend and re-enact sections 4, 8, and 9 of
chapter 156 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1883-4, in regard
to the working of Roads in Russell county, Virginia.

Approved August 26, 1884.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
sections four, eight, and nine of an act passed February
twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, entitled an
act to provide for working and keeping in order the public
roads in the county of Russell, be amended and re-enacted so
as to read as follows:
§ 4. Said commissioners shall, on or before the first day of
July, annually, after giving twenty days’ notice, by written
or printed posters, at ten public places in his magisterial dis-
trict, of the time an‘ place of letting, let each precinct to the
lowest bidder for the term of one year from the first of July
in each year, requiring each contractor to give bond and suf-
ficient security in a sum not less than fifty dollars, payable to
the county, and to be applied by the commissioners to keep
his roads in good repair, and as the law directs; which bond
shall be filed with the clerk of the board of supervisors, and
recorded by him in a book kept for that purpose; there shall
not be more than three days consumed to the letting of said
contracts, and upon failure to let any precinct or precincts,
or, if in his judgment no one is willing to take such precinct
at a reasonable price, then he may make private contracts for
the working of same, requiring bond and security as in other
cases, or he may employ some one to work said hands, and
he may also employ labor with any money belonging or lia-
ble to said road: provided said commissioner shall not be
interested in any road contract, directly or indirectly.

§ 8. All persons now held and liable to work on the public
roads shall hereafter be compelled to work one day in each
year on same, with such implements as the road contractor
may designate, and upon notice to be given by him; and on
failure to do so, he or they shall forfeit the sum of one dollar,
to be collected by the county treasurer as other taxes to be
levied for road purposes, and to be added to the road fund;
the failure of any hand to work when notified, shall be re-
ported to the treasurer by the road contractor: provided that
ten hours shall constitute a day’s labor, under any of the pro-
visions in this chapter. |

§ 9. The board of supervisors of said county shall, at their
regular meeting prior to the first of July in each year, lay a
levy on all the taxable real and personal estate in said county,
sufficient to keep all of said roads in the condition and repairs
in which the law requires the same to be kept: provided that
the tax shall in no case exceed twenty cents on the hundred
dollars, in any one year; which levy, when collected, shall be
placed by the treasurer to the credit of the road commis-
sioners.

2. This act shall take effect from its passage.