Chap. 655.-—An ACT to provide for the working and repairing of public roads
and bridges in Buckingham county.

Approved April 2, 1902.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the board
of supervisors of Buckingham county shall, subject to the approval of the
county court of said county, from time to time, divide the said county into
not exceeding two road districts. each containing one or more magisterial
districts, or it may, subject to like approval of said court, constitute said
county into one road district, and shall, subject to the approval of said
court, appoint at their annual meeting in July in each year a road
commissioner for each of said road districts, or one for said county, if it
shall be so constituted into one district, to hold office for one year, and
his term to begin twenty days after his appointment.

2. Such road commissioners shall, within their respective road dis-
tricts, be charged with the duty of supervising and superintending the
working and repairing of public roads and bridges by the road surveycr-
und other persons whose duty it may be to work and keep in repair suc
roads and bridges, and he shall examine and report upon all accounts
and claims presented to such board or court by such road surveyors cr
persons working such roads as aforesaid, and shall, when directed to Gu
so by said court, or judge thereof in vacation, superintend and direct
the opening of new roads, or alteration of those in which changes ar
made, and the erection or repairing of bridges; and shall further d-s-
charge such other duties in connection with the working and repairing
of such roads and bridges within their respective district as may be pre-
scribed by said board by and with the approval of said court, or judg:
thereof in vacation.

3. The said board may, from time to time, prescribe such plans, spevi-
fications, and directions as they may deem best for the working, keeping
in order, and repairing the roads and bridges in the.said road districts.

4, The judge of said court, in term time or in racation, may, by ard
with the consent of said board, by order of resolution spread on their
minutes, appoint as many special road surveyors for any one or more of
said road districts, or for any portion of any of them as may be deemed
proper, and for such time as may be deemed proper, and who may, und=r
the supervision and direction of said judge and of the said road commis-
sioner of the district, buy or hire material, teams, implements, and tools.
hire labor, and superintend work ordered pursuant to this act; and sai
special surveyors shall, in addition, have all the powers and duties of, and
be subject to all the penalties imposed upon, other road surveyors accord-
ing to law; and the pay-rolls, accounts, and vouchers of any such special
surveyors shall be by him submitted to the commissioner of the district
in which the work was done or expenditure was made, and if approved by
such commissioner, shall.be certified to by him to said judge, who, if ke
approve the same, shall order their payment, and the amount of anv
moneys to he expended by or allowed for services to any such special sur-
vevors shall be fixed in advance by the said board, and a sum provided for
their payinent. Any road commissioner may act as such special survevor,
and his accounts as such be settled as aforesaid by the supervisor of the
district in which the work was done and the county Judge, and their pay-
ment. ordered by him. Any such special road surveyor may be removed
from office at any time by said board of supervisors or said county judge.
5. The said road commissioners shall inspect the roads and bridges
within their respective districts, and make reports on the condition of the
same under oath to the first. dav of the July and December courts of said
county in each vear, which reports shall also show whether the road sur-
yvevors within their distriets have performed their duty upon their re
speetive roads with regard to working and keeping the same in order,
and said reports, if unfavorable to such surveyors, or any of them, shall
he laid before the next grand jury of such court, and shall be evidence
upon which such grand jury may make a presentment, or final indict-
ment, against anv such road survevor for neglect of duty or malfeasance
In office; such reports shall be certified by said court to the said board of
supervisors.
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6. Every road surveyor of said county shall be authorized to appoint
a deputy, in whom all the powers and authority of the principal may be
vested.

%. Every survevor of a road shall be entitled to compensation at the
discretion of the county court, to be certified by it to the board of super-
visors, and shall be subject to confirmation by said board, and paid out
of the road district levy hereinafter provided for in the manner and sub-
ject to the conditions hereinafter provided, not exceeding one dollar per
day of ten hours’ work; but special road surveyors appointed by the
county court may, at the discretion of said court, receive compensation to
an amount not exceeding two dollars per day for each day’s work as afore-
said: provided, such increased compensation be first authorized by the
said board of supervisors.

8. The said road commissioners shall receive compensation for their
services at the rate of two dollars per day for the time during which
they shall be actually engaged in the duties of their office as such com-
missioners, and the number of days for which they shall respectively re-
ceive such compensation shall be hmited by said board of supervisors
according to the number of days during which it shall appear each com-
missioner should be: employed in his district, to be paid out of the road
tax collected in his district; but no such commissioner shall receive more
than one hundred dollars in any one year; and if said commissioner shall
have served as special surveyor, he shall not be paid twice for the same
time employed in both capacities.

9. Should any such road commissioner act also as special surveyor, his
work as such surveyor shall be supervised, inspected, and reported on as
aforesaid to the July and November courts by the supervisor of the magis-
terial district in which the same is done; and such supervisor shall re-
ceive compensation therefor, and also for the extra duties imposed upon
him by this act, including such meetings as it may be necessary to hold
of said board for road purposes, at the rate of three dollars per day for
the time employed by him, not to exceed, however, fifteen dollars in any
one year.

10. Each road surveyor in said county shall annually, at a-meeting of
the board of supervisors to be held for that purpose on the first Monday
in December of each year, or at such other time in each year as the board
of supervisors shall direct, report to them on oeth the general condition
of the public roads and bridges in his road precinct, the amount of money,
labor, or both (including also the hire of teams), expended or performed
on said roads and bridges, and such other matters relative thereto as the
board of supervisors shall suggest or require, and such report shall he
passed on and approved or disapproved, in whole or in part, by the road
commissioner of the district, except when such commissioner may himse! f
make the same as special surveyor, in which case it shall be passed on
and approved or disapproved as aforesaid by the supervisor of the district
where the work was done.

11. Upon such report as is prescribed in the preceding section, and
after the semi-annual reports from the road commissioners or supervisors
hereinbefore required shall have been made as to the precinct of a road
surveyor, and his account duly certified by the county court, or ] udzs
thereof in vacation, and upon the said board of supervisors being satisti':
that such road surveyor has fully discharged his duty, they shall isst-
proper warrant to him for the amount to which he may be entitled.

12. Every such road surveyor shall be liable to prosecution for any
neglect of duty or malfeasance in office, and, upon conviction, sha.l t
fined in each case not less than five nor more than fifty dollars.

13. The clerk of said board of supervisors and of said court shall r.-
ceive compensation for the duties he may be required to perform und::
this act, to be allowed him by said board, not to exceed fifty dollars in
any one year.

14. The said board shall annually levy (along with the county levi,
i tax upon all the property, real and personal, assessed for taxation 1
the several road districts aforesaid for the working, repairing, and keep
ing in order of the public roads and bridges under this act, which ‘at
shall not execed twe nty cents on the hundred dollars of such properti.
and such tax shall he laid separately upon each road district, and may b:
at different rates in the different districts; and of the moneys collected
hy the county treasurer in each district a separate account shall be kept.
and the same shall be expended in the district in which they were co.-
leted. But, in addition to the said district tax, the said board of super-
visors may annually appropriate so much of the general county levy a:
may not be used for other purposes for a county road fund, to be ev-
pended in working and keeping in repair the roads and bridges through-
out the county in such manner as the county court of the county, or
judge thereof in vacation, may, with the approval of said board, direct.

15. When bridges are across streams forming the boundary line of two
road districts, the cost of repairing the same, so far as chargeable to the
districts, shall be borne equally by them, and such repairs shall be under
the joint supervision of the road commissioner of the two districts. ex-
cept in those cases where the board of supervisors may, with the approval
of said judge, in term time or vacation, prescribe some different rule
with regard to such repairs.

16. The judge of said court, in term time or vacation, may, with the
approval of said hoard, appoint a commissioner of bridges for said
county, with such compensation as may be fixed by said board, who sha!
have the supervision and inspection of the bridges of the county so far as
erected or repaired at the county expense, and perform such other duties
as may be required by the rules ‘and regulations of said board ; and when
it shall appear that the amount necded at one time to put any bridge in
repair will be more than one hundred dollars, the same shall be ordered
and paid for out of the county levy in the mode prescribed in the general
law. unless the said board and the said judge, in term time or vacation.
shall order otherwise.

17. The teams, tools, and implements now belonging to said county for
road purposes may be apportioned ratably among the several road dis-
tricts by the county judge. or he may, with the approval of the board of
supervisors, make such other disposition of them as may be deemed
proper.
18. The provisions of chapter forty-three of the Code of Virginia of
the edition of eighteen hundred and eighty-sevcn in reference to county
roads, causeways, bridges, landings, and wharves shall apply to and be
in force in said county, so far as not inconsistent with the provisions of
this act, and in so far as the matters therein contained shall not have
been otherwise provided for in this act, except that the sections numbered
from nine hundred and sixty-three to nine hundred and eighty-three,
inclusive, of said chapter shall not have effect or be in force in said
county; and the present road commissioners of the said county shall con-
tinue in office until the terms of office of the road commissioner pro-
vided for in the first section of this act shall commence.

19. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby re-
pealed.

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