Chap. 217.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled ‘an act to create
a road board for the county of Fauquier, and to provide for the working
of the roads of said county,” approved March 8, 1904.

Approved March 14, 1906.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act en-
titled “an act to create a road board for the county of Fauquier, and tv
provide for the working of said roads of said county,” approved March
eight, nineteen hundred and four, be amended and re-enacted as follows:

$1. That there is hereby created a board, to be known as “the Fauquier
county road board.” The said board shall consist of one member from
each magisterial district, to be appointed, as soon as practicable after
this act shall become a law, by the judge of the circuit court for a period
of two years from the date of appointment.

$2. The said board shall have the control, supervision, and manage-
ment over all the roads and bridges of the county, and shall have the
authority, and it shall be its duty, to direct the improvement of the same
in such manner as shall seem to them practicable and best for the in-
terests of the travelling community.

$3. The said board shall within thirty days after this act shall lv-
come a law, and for every two years thereafter, choose a county superin-
tendent of roads, and recommend him for appointment to the judge of thy
circuit court of the county of Fauquier, who shall, in term time or in
vacation, appoint the said nominee (who shall be either a civil engineer
or a person well versed in road building) as said county superintendent
for a period of two years; and the said county board may appoint 4
deputy or deputies for said superintendent, upon his request or at their
discretion, for such times as it may direct, but not exceeding the term of
the superintendent. And said board shall have authority to employ
such other agents as it may deem necessary, and shall have full power
to direct the purchase of machinery, teams, supplies, and materials, and
erform all other acts to carry out the spirit of this act. It may make
| necessary contracts, and shall require proper bonds from all agents
nd contractors for the faithful performance of their duties. The said
reuit court may remove the said county superintendent from office, upon
plication of the said road board, and may fill any vacancy in said office,
. the appointment of the nominee recommended for such position by the
uunty board. The said county board shall fix the compensation of the
minty superintendent and his deputies, and of all agents or contractors
vated by them under and by virtue of this act.
The said board shall have power to sue and be sued, and suits for and
rainst said board shall be in the name of “the Fauquier county road
ard.” but no member of said board shall in any manner be personally
able for any recovery against the said board.
$4. The board of supervisors of Fauquier county shall in each year
‘ovide and create a general road fund for building, working, and repair-
x the public roads in said county, and out of said fund they shall set
art and apportion one-half thereof as a permanent road fund, which
all be expended by the county road board only towards the permanent
provement of the public roads in said county in accordance with the
rovisions of this act, and the said board of supervisors shall set apart
wl apportion the other one-half of said fund for the working and re-
iiring of said roads, which fund shall be expended by the district road
ard, “hereinafter provided for, only towards the working and repairing
the public roads in said county in accordance with the provisions of
is act. But the said county road board and the said district road
ard shall each expend the fund so provided in the magisterial districts
the proportion to the amount contributed by cach district under the
vies made by the board of supervisors, and said county board and said
strict board shall each annually settle an account of their receipts and
sbursements before the board of supervisors of said county.
$5. The member of the said county road board and the member of
© board of supervisors from cach magisterial district, together with the
uinty superintendent, shall constitute a district road board for such
agisterial district, which board shall have the immediate control of
« work done or performed on the roads of the respective districts, sub-
ct. however, to supervision and direction by the said board for the
uunty.
$6. The board of supervisors for said county shall have the authority
appropriate to the general road fund provided for by this act, and the
neral road law for the State, anv balance that remains at the end of
W fiscal vear to the credit of the county fund or levy, upon the applica-
nof the county road board.
$v. Bonds may be issued by the county of Fauquier for the purpose of
acadamizing or otherwise permanently improving the roads of the said
unty or building bridges therein. The circuit court of said county may,
on the petition of a majority of the said county road board, make an
der requiring the judges of election at the next general election of the
id county or district officers, or at any other time not less than thirty
vs from the date of said order, which shall be designated therein, to
open the poll and take the sense of the qualified voters on the question.
whether there shall be issued bonds by the board of supervisors of said
county, to be expended in macadamizing or permanently improving, or
building the roads of said county. The said election shall be held in
accordance with the conditions and requirements of the general road law
for the State; and the bonds, if it shall appear by the report of the com-
missioner of election that a majority of the qualified voters of the
county, including a majority of the freeholders voting upon the question,
are in favor of issuing the bonds for the purpose aforesaid, the circuit
court shall at its next term after such election, enter of record an order
requiring the supervisors of the county to proceed, at their next meeting,
to comply with the provisions of the general road law for the issuance of
said bonds.

§8. Said bonds when issued shall be delivered to the treasurer of the
county, who shall place the proceeds of the sale thereof to the credit of
the county road fund ; and the said treasurer shall be liable for the amount
received for said bonds as though it were a county levy. The said fund
shall be expended upon the warrant or order of the said county road
board for the purpose for which it was created. The said treasurer shall
receive as compensation for his services hereunder a commission of one-
fourth of one per centum on the amount thus coming into his hands.

§9. The amount of bonds issued under this act shall not exceed the
sum, the interest upon which at the rate fixed by the board of supervisors
of the county, shall require the imposition of an annual tax of twenty
cents on the one hundred dollars. All moneys which shall belong to the
general road fund of the county under the provisions of this act, or of the
general road law of the State, shall be paid by the order of the county
road board upon the treasurer of the county.

$10. No member of said board, or other public officer, or any officer
created by this act, shall have any interest in any work done under the
provisions of said act.

§11. The members of the said county road board hereby created and
the superintendent of roads and his deputies shall qualify by taking the
usual oath for the faithful performance of their duties, and the said
members of the said road board shall be paid out of the road fund two
dollars per day when in attendance on the board.

§12. The said road board may employ a clerk at a salary of not more
than fifty dollars per annum.

§13. The governor shall have authority to furnish to the county of
Fauquicr, upon the requisition of the said county road board, convicts
whose terms of service at the time of application for them does not ex-
ceed five years, in conformity with chapter two hundred and two, title
fifty-five, of the Code of Virginia, for eighteen hundred and eighty-seven.
to work on the county roads under such regulations as the said county
road board may prescribe in conformity with said chapter, and on such
conditions as to safe-keeping as the governor and said board may agree
upon.

§14. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby
repealed; and all parts of the general road law for the State not incon-
sistent with this act are hercby enacted as part and parcel of this act.