Chap. 163.—An ACT to provide a road law for Appomattox county, and to repeal
all acts in conflict therewith. -

Approved March 14, 1904.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That for each
magisterial district in the county of Appomattox there is hereby created
and established a road board, consisting of the supervisor (who shall be
chairman of the said board), a commissioner of roads, and one of the
justices of the peace of said district, who shall be.designated by the judge
of the circuit court, which said board shall have exclusive control of the
roads and bridges in said district.

2, That the commissioners of roads elected on the Tuesday after the
first Monday in November, nineteen hundred and three, shall hold office
for four years from the first day of January, nineteen hundred and four
and shall perform the duties prescribed by the board. Their successor:
shall be elected by the qualified voters of the district in which they reside
on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November, nineteen hundrec
and seven, and every four years thereafter, and shall hold office for fou1
years from the first dav of January next succeeding their election.

3. It shall be the duty of the road boards to have worked and kept in
repair the roads and bridges of the several districts by adopting suct
rules, specifications, and regulations as they may deem prover, expedi-
ent, and necessary. Said board shall have authority to let contracts, em.
ploy hands, purchase or hire machinery. teams, and tools as they ma}
deem wise. Each district hoard shall have the entire control of the func
for the district, and shall have authority to draw warrants directly on the
county treasurer in settlement for work, and shall control the fund foi
the district for which they stand. Said fund to be provided as follows
The board of supervisors shall, when it make its annual levy, provide
such an amount either by special levy or otherwise, as may be provided by
law, which sum shall be avrropriated for use. And the board shall
further have the right to make the rate of road tax different in the several
districts as the wants of the peonle may require. The board shall, how-
ever, cause the fund as levied for roads from each district to be spent
only in the district from which it has been collected. The board shall,
also, have authority to apportion among the several districts the capita-
tion tax of fifty cents on every male citizen over twenty-one vears of age.
They may also make such arrangements as they may find to be desirable
with the State authorities for the working of convicts on the said roads,
and with the consent of the board of supervisors may work all male in-
mates (who have been convicted) in the jail of the said county, and may
cause all fines unpaid to be paid in work on the said public roads at the
rate of fifty cents per day for such service.

4. The commissioners of roads shall each receive the sum of seventy-
five dollars per annum; the supervisors, for the additional service re-
quired by this act, shall each receive the sum of fifteen dollars per
annum, and the justices of the peace designated by the court as mem-
bers of the road board shall each receive the sum of ten dollars per
annum.

5. All acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

6. Inasmuch as the time for working the roads of the county com-
mences early in the spring of the year, and in view of the emergency
existing by reason thereof, this act shall be in force from its passage.