Chap. 553.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4, 5 and 8 of an act ap-

proved February 1, 1894, entitled an act to provide for working the roads in

orthampton county, approved March 2, 1892, as amended by an act approved
February 23, 1894.

Approved February 28, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tions four, five and eight of an act approved February first, eighteen
hundred and ninety-four, entitled an act to amend an act to provide
for working the roads in Northampton county, approved March sec-
ond, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, as amended by an act ap-
proved February twenty-third, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 4. It shall be the duty of the board of supervisors of said county
to meet at the court-house of said county on the second Monday in
March, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and annually thereafter on
the second Monday in January, and make an estimate of all expenses
under this act for the ensuing year. They shall determine what
compensation shall be paid to the said superintendent and for what
time, and may fix such compensation at one rate for one month and
at a different rate for different months, so that such compensation
shall be by the hour and not at any time exceed the rate of thirty
cents for each hour of actual work, which shall not include going or
returning from such work, and any superintendent appointed under
this act shall be paid the amount so fixed by the board of supervi-
sore, but during the time the said board shall order the suspension
of operations under this act the said superintendent shall receive no
compensation.

§ 5. The board of supervisors of said county shall purchase not
less than eight mules or horses, unless the same have already been
purchased, to work upon the said roads of said county. The said
board of supervisors shall also purchase or cause to be purchased a
sufficient quantity of tiling necessary to drain said roads so as to
lead the water from any side of the road on which it may be held or
ponded to the other side, if that be drained by ditch or otherwise.
The said board of supervisors of said county shall purchase two road
scrapers and one stump puller to be used by said superintendent,
and shall instruct him to scrape the roads whenever it may be deemed
advisable to do so. The said board of supervisors shall also purchase
all necessary plows, hoes, axes and one or more road machines, to-
gether with all other implements which may be needed for working
the said roads by the said superintendent and which may not have
been already purchased.

§ 8. It shall be the duty of the board of supervisors of said county,
at their annual meeting in the month of July, eighteen hundred and
ninety-six, and eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, to levy a tax of fif-
teen cents, and annually thereafter a tax of not less than ten cents nor
more than fifteen cents on every one hundred dollars in value of the
property, real, personal, or mixed, assessed in said county for pur-
poses of state taxation, also on all the real and personal property of
telegraph and telephone companies and railroad companies and their
telegraph lines which pass through said county, based upon the as-
sessment per mile made by the state for its purposes and furnished
by the auditor of public accounts to the board of supervisors of said
county, to be collected in the same manner as state and county taxes,
which shall be applied to the expenses under this act. All property
in said county liable to taxation for state purposes shall be liable to
taxation under this act.

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