Chap. 715.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5 and 10 of an act entitle
an act to provide for the working of the roads in King George county, ap
proved February 29, 1892, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled a:
act to amend and re-enact sections 5, 6, and 10 of an act entitled an act t

rovide for the working of the public roads in King George county, approvet
ebruary 26, 1894.

° Approved March 4, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec
tions five and ten of an act entitled an act to provide for the work
ing of the public roads in King George county, approved February
twenty-nine, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, as amended and re
enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections five
six, and ten of an act entitled an act fo provide for the working o!
the public roads in King George county, approved February twenty.
sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, be amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:

§ 5. That all male persons in said county may be called upon tc
work some public road in the district in which he may reside, with
the following exceptions, namely: Ministers of the gospel and per-
sons under twenty-one and above sixty years of age, any person who
has lost a leg, an arm, or who is otherwise disabled. Each person
who works upon the public road, when called upon by the surveyor,
shall be paid in the manner herein prescribed out of the county levy
at the rate of seventy-five cents per day.

a. It shall be the duty of each road surveyor to keep a list of those
who may be called upon to work the public roads in his district, and
to keep an exact record of each day’s work, or fraction thereof, and
the names of the parties doing the work. It shall not be lawful to
call upon any one person twice until every person upon such list
shall have been summoned: provided, however, the road surveyor
shall in no case call upon or summon any indifferent workers upon
the road, but such men may be stricken from the list by the sur-
veyor. It shall be the duty of the surveyor to see that the men at
work upon the road do their duty faithfully and efficiently, and no
one shall in any case be paid in full unless he so performs his work ;
and such person, in the discretion of the surveyor, may thereafter
be stricken from the surveyor’s list. In no case shall the surveyor
have more men at work upon the road at any one time than may be
required to complete the work with reasonable dispatch.

b. It shall be the duty of the surveyor to give to each party who
has worked upon the road in a manner satisfactory to the surveyor
a certificate showing the number of days, or fraction thereof, worked
by such party.

c. At the November and June terms of the county court, each
surveyor shall return to the court a list of the men who have per-
formed the work upon the roads in his district, in obedience to call
for six months last past, an itemized statement of the time engaged,
and the amount respectively due for such work; and also a state-
ment of numbers of wagons, teams, carts, plows and other such im-
plements used, by whom furnished, the amount due for each, and
time actually employed in work. This return shall be sworn to
before the court by the surveyor at the time it is made, and the court
may, if it deem it necessary, require any other evidence as to its
correctness. No such return shall be passed upon unless it is in
proper form. Such return may be approved in whole or in part by
the court, or it may reject the same in toto. If approved in any way
it shall, as approved, be certified by the court to the board of super-
visors, which shall issue proper warrants to each individual upon
the county treasurer for payments of amounts due, subject, however,
to subdivision d.

d. It shall be the duty of the board of supervisors to carefully
scrutinize each return so certified, and if from the knowledge of any
member, or from other evidence not known to the court at time of
return, there be any reason why any return or any part thereof should
not be allowed, the board shall send same back to the court at the
next term, giving reasons in writing for its action. In such case
the court may take such action as it may deem proper and necessary,
and if it allows the same in whole or in part, shall again certify the
return to the said board for payment as aforesaid.

e. The day mentioned in this act shall not be less than eight
hours.

f. Any surveyor who violates any provision of this section or any
other section of this act shall be fined not less than ten dollars, and
shall be removed from office.

g. All warrants issued by virtue of this section shall be received
in payment of all dues and demands held by the county against the
legal holder thereof, except what may be due for county or district
free-school purposes; provided if the board of supervisors of said
county at any time think it to the best interest of the said county to
have said roads worked by contract, it is hereby authorized and em-
powered to have said roads so worked, and to this end is hereby
authorized and empowered to make all such rules and regulations,
contracts and agreements, as may be expedient, proper and neces-
sary ; provided, however, such rules and regulations, contracts and
agreements are approved by the county court of said county. The
board of supervisors, at its annual meeting, or as soon thereafter as
practicable, is empowered to levy a road-tax, not to exceed twenty
cents on the one hundred dollars’ worth of property, to be collected
by the county treasurer and accounted for by him with other county
levies; but the tax so levied and collected in each district shall be
used and applied in that respective district; and if said board of
supervisors determine to have said roads worked by contract system,
the provisions of this act which may be inconsistent with the same
shall in no case apply.

h. The clerk of the county court shall, for services performed
under this act, receive annually the sum of six dollars, to be paid in
semi-annual installments.

§ 10. Every surveyor of a road shall be entitled to receive for sum-
moning hands to work on the public roads a sum not exceeding five
cents for each hand summoned, the same to be fixed by the board of
supervisors, and he shall receive in addition thereto, the sum of
seventy-five cents per day for each day that he may supervise the
working of the road. Every surveyor shall present his account for
services under this act, together with all expenses incurred by him
in working the roads under his charge, to the county court at its
November and June terms, verified by his oath and certified to by at
least two freeholders of his road district, that the services, work,
expenses therein set forth, were actually rendered and incurred, and
that the same were necessary, which, if allowed by the court shall
be certified by it to the board of supervisors.
3. This act shall be in force from its passage. ,