Chap. 410.—An ACT to amend section 26 of an act entitled an act to
pends for working and keeping in repair the public roads of Bote-

‘ * Approved March 6, 1888.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section twenty-six of an act entitled an act to provide for.
working and keeping in repair the public roads of Botetourt,
approved February twenty-six, eighteen hundred and eighty-
six, be amended and re enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 26. On the first day of June and December of each year, '
or as soon thereafter as practicable, the board shall meet at’
the courthouse and audit all claims against the road fund of
the county, including the accounts of the commissioners and
overseers, which accounts shall be verified by affidavit; and
the said board shall draw their warrants, signed by the’
chairman and countersigned by the secretary, upon the treas- '
urer of the county, who shall pay the same out of the treas-
ury; the treasurer of the county shall furnish the said board °
at their said meetings, a statement of the amount on hand |
to the credit of the road fund, and no money shall be paid
out of said road fund, except upon the warrant of the board
of road commissioners, and the said board shall not draw
warrants for a greater amount than is in the treasurer's
hands when the warrants gre drawn. And at their June
meetings, the board shall determine what amount, in their
judgment, will be necessary to open new roads, work and

eep in repair the highways and county roads for the ensu-
ing year: provided, when the cost of altering or changing a.
roAd, or opening a new road, to be, in their judgment, too |
burdensome to be paid in one year, they may, in their discre-
tion, provide for the same in not exceeding three annual.
instalments. They shall certify the amount so ascertained
to the board of supervisors at their annual meeting in July,
and the board of supervisors shall levy a road tax to meet!
the same, not exceeding fifteen cents on the one hundred

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dollars’ worth of real and personal property of the county,
including railroads, to be collected as other county levies,
and in the discretion of the board of supervisors; also, a tax
on the licenses, as adjusted for state taxes, not exceedin
twenty per centum of the state tax on said licenses, and said
levies to be made upon all the persons and property liable to
other county levies, anything in the charter of any incorpo-
rated town in said county to the contrary notwithstanding;
and, in addition thereto, the board of supervisors shall pro-
vide out of the general county levy for the building and
keeping in repair of all bridges over ten feet long in said
county, the amount necessary for that purpose, to be ascer-
tained by the board of road commissioners and reported to
the board of supervisors; and the amount so provided is to
be expended only on the bridges over ten feet in length.
And the board of road commissioners shall keep an accurate
account of all its proceedings in a well-bound book prepared
for that purpose.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.