Chap. 149.—An ACT to authorize the judge of the circuit court of Goochland
county to appoint a board of county road commissioners for Goochland
county, and to define their duties in connection with warking the public roads
of said county, and to increase the county road levy necessary therefor.

Approved March 14, 1904.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That it shall be
the duty of the circuit court of the county of Goochland, at the March
term thereof, nineteen hundred and four, and every two years thereafter,
to appoint seven citizens of said county, two from each magisterial dis-
trict therein, and one at large, who shall constitute a board to be known
as “the board of county road commissioners,” who shall qualify in said
court and whose term of office shall be two years from the date of their
qualification, or until their successors are duly appointed and qualified.
Said board shall select one of their members as chairman, and the clerk
of the circuit court of Goochland county shall keep a record of their
proceedings in a book to be kept for that purpose. Said board shall
meet at the courthouse of said county at least six times a year, or oftener
if they deem it proper.

2. Said board shall have the entire management and control of the
working and keeping in repair all the roads of said county, and also the
building of new roads or changes in roads after any road has been
established or changed, as is now provided by law for the establishment
of new roads or the changing of the same. The said commissioners, a
majority of whom shall be empowered to act, shall divide the county
into two road districts, called the upper and lower road districts, re-
spectively, and the entire road fund shall be expended without any
separate account as now required by law; they shall employ a foreman
and a force of hands in each road district, who shall work regularly on
the roads, whenever the weather will permit; the foreman shall have the
care and custody of all county property used by their respective forces,
and sha]l be required to render an account to the road commissioners
at each meeting. Each of the said foremen, under the direction and
control of the board of commissioners, shall employ such help as may be
needed, and shall have the power to discharge or suspend the same.

3. The building or repairing of any bridge or footway in said county
shall be done in the manner as shall be prescribed by said board, after
any bridge shall have been directed to be built as now prescribed by law.

4, For the purpose of opening, changing, working and keeping in re-
pair the roads of said county, and for the purpose of building or repair-
ing any bridge or footway in said county, it shall be the duty of the
board of supervisors of said county to levy an annual tax of not exceeding
twenty cents on the hundred dollars’ worth of all taxable property in
said county, both real and personal.

5. The times for holding its meetings shall be designated by a reso-
lution of said board, and all regular meetings shall be held in public,
and no accounts shall be approved except at such regular meetings.

6. The board shall, at each regular meeting thereof, make a written

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report of all moneys expended by it, which report shall be certified to
the supervisors of said county, who shall at the next meeting order the
same to be paid, and draw its warrants upon the treasurer of said county
for the several amounts so reported.

?. The said commissioners shall, when necessary, employ an engineer
to locate grades and new roads, and do any other necessary engineering
work.

8. The board of supervisors shall not consider nor pay any road claims
for supplies or salaries or wages until the same have been approved and
recommended by the board of the road commissioners, and when so ap-
proved the supervisors shall allow the same.

9. The compensation of each member of the said board: shall be one
dollar per diem and mileage at the rate of four cents each way, and no
member of said board shall be directly or indirectly interested in any con-
tract to be given under the provisions of this act.

10. No appointment of any road foreman or contract made under
this act shall be for a period longer than one year.

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

ed.
ars Whereas, the appointments under this act are to be made at the
March term of the circuit court, third Monday, therefore an emergency
exists, and this act shall be in force from its passage.