Chap. 279.—An ACT to work and keep in order the public roads in
the county of Pittsylvania.

Approved February 29, 1888.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the county court of Pittsylvania county shall, at its July
term, eighteen hundred and .eighty-eight, make an order to
have the county laid off into road precincts, and appoint a
surveyor for each precinct, unless the said court shall think
fit to adopt the precincts of roads and surveyors as they now
exist, with their respective hands as now assigned to them
by law. Each surveyor so appointed, shall be required to
keep their respective roads in good order, clear of stumps and
loose rock, and free from the falling of dead timber, and well
drained.

2. Any surveyor failing to comply with the foregoing sec-
tion, shall be liable to indictment before the grand jury of
his county, and, upon conviction by the court, shall be liable
to pay a fine of not less than five nor more than twenty-five
dollars for each offence, at the discretion of the court.

3. All male citizens of the county of Pittsylvania, between
the ages of sixteen and sixty years, shall be compelled to
work on some public road near his’place of residence, at least
three days in each year, except such as are now exempt by
law or may be hereafter exempt.

4. Each surveyor shall notify the hands that work on his
precinct of road when and where to work, and what kind of
tools each of them shall work with. Any person failing to
work, when notified by their surveyor or his lawful agent,
shall forteit for each offence the sum of seventy-five cents;
the said fine shall be collected by the surveyor for the use of
the road in the manner now prescribed by law. Said sur-
veyors shall keep a strict account of all moneys collected and

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paid out by them each year, and shall settle their respective
accounts with the board of supervisors at their July meeting
each year. No surveyor shall be allowed to resign his office
in less than twelve months after his appointment, and not
then unless he can prove his road to be in good order. All.
surveyors of roads shall receive seventy-five cents for each
day they.shall actually be engaged in notifying hands to
work on roads, and seventy-five cents for each day they may
be engaged in working on roads.

5. After such surveyors shall have worked all their hands:
on their road at least three days during the year, and find
their respective forces are insufficient to keep their precinct
of road in good order, it shall be the duty of such surveyor
or surveyors to notify any three freeholders—any two of
whom may act—to examine their precinct of road, and ascer-
tain what amount of money or timber will be necessary to
put said road in good order, and, upon their report in writing
to any such surveyor, he shall at once proceed to carry out
the decision of the above-named freeholders: provided that.
such freeholders shall not make an exorbitant levy to any
one precinct of road in any one year. All such surveyors of :
roads as may have to call in the services of such freeholders
as provided in the preceding section, shall make a report to
the board of supervisors at its July meeting of each year,
accompanying his report with the report of such freeholders,
setting forth the amount authorized to be spent on such road,
and any other matter pertinent thereto.

6. It shall not be lawful for any surveyor of roads to have
more than one precinct of road to work at a time in any one

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? 7. All expenses incurred under this act shall be audited by
the board of supervisors, and paid out of the county levy as_
now paid.

8. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are
hereby repealed.

9. This act shall be in force on and after the fifteenth day
of July, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight. ,