Chap. 280.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act to estab-
lish a general road fund for the permanent improvement of the roads and
the bridges of Dinwiddie county; to create a road board for Dinwiddie
county, and to prescribe its powers and duties, and to provide for the
appointment of a county superintendent of roads, and to regulate his
duties,” approved March 8, 1904.

Approved March 15, 1906.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the board of
supervisors of Dinwiddie county shall create a special road fund by set-
ting apart and appropriating thereto one-half of the road taxes of said
county in each year, which special road fund and such other moneys as
may be lawfully appropriated thereto, shall be expended annually to-
wards the permanent improvement of the main public roads of said
county.

2. The other half of said road taxes shall be set apart for the buildinc
and repair of bridges and for the repair of roads, and shall be known as
the bridge and repair fund.

3. There is hereby created a board, to be known as the road board for
Dinwiddie county, which shall consist of one member from each magi:-
terial district, and one member from the county at large. The members
now in office shall continue in office until July first, nineteen hundred and
six. On or before the first day of July, nineteen hundred and six, and
annually thereafter, the judge of the circuit court of said county, in term
time or vacation, shall appoint the members of said road board. The
said road board shall have the general supervision and control of all of
the roads and bridges in Dinwiddie county, and on the part of said
county shall agree with adjoining counties and cities in regard to the
erection and maintenance of bridges between said county and such ad-
joining counties and cities. It shall have authority, and it shall be its
duty, to designate the roads, or parts of roads in each district of said
county to be known as main public roads, and to specify the character of
improvement to be made on each road. So far as practicable, such main
public roads shall be improved in a permanent manner out of the fund
set apart under section one of this act, with such aid as may be obtained
from the State highway commission, or other State authorities. The
bridge and repair fund set apart under section two of this act, or so much
thereof as may he needed, shall be used for keeping in repair the roads, or
parts of roads, not attempted to be permanently improved, and for the
erection and maintenance of bridges in said county, or between sail
county and some other county or city. The intention of this act being
to encourage the building of a portion of permanently improved roadwa‘
in said county during each year, said board is hereby authorized to con-
struct small sections of not less than one-half of a mile each, in the sev-
eral magisterial districts of said county, the extension of the permanent
work in each district to be gradually and equitably made to the end that
all parts of said county may (as speedily as possible) receive a portion
of the benefits of this act.
4. The said road board shall appoint one of its members chairman,
ind may appoint one of its members secretary, and shall appoint a county
superintendent of roads, who shall be a civil engineer or a person skilled
in road building, and who shall hold office during the term of one year,
receive such compensation and perform such duties as may be by said
board prescribed. Said road board shall authorize, empower, and direct
the county superintendent of roads to construct, or to have constructed
by contract, by the lowest responsible bidder, to repair, or to have re-
paired by contract by the lowest responsible bidder, all bridges in said
county which may need to be constructed or repaired. And said board
may authorize said county superintendent of roads to let to contract to
the lowest responsible bidder the repair and maintenance, according to
plans and specifications to be prepared by him, such roads, or parts of
roads, not designated as main public roads under section three of this
act. Said county superintendent of roads shall prepare plans and speci-
fications for all bridges to be constructed or repaired by contract. In all
contract work said superintendent may reject any and all bids. Said
board may employ such engineers, agents, and servants as it may deem
necessary, prescribe their duties and fix their compensation, and shall
have full power to purchase machinery, teams, supplies, and materials,
and to perform all other things necessary to carry out the spirit of this
act. It shall also have authority to forbid the public from travelling on
any road, or portion of road, while the same is being built, improved, or
repaired; and, after reasonable notice to the parties in interest, to re-
move any fences or other obstructions from the roads of said county, and
any person who shall attempt to interfere with said board or its agents in
the discharge of such duty, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and
be fined not less than twenty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars
for each offense. All salarics, machinery, teams, supplies, and wages
for permanent work shall be paid out of the said special road fund. Al!
material for bridges and repair work, and all wages for labor performed
thereon, shall be paid out of the sai? bridge and repair fund. ‘The mem-
bers of said board shall each receive the sum of twenty-five dollars per
year. The secretary shall receive twenty-five dollars per year, and if he
be a member of said board, this amount shall he in addition to his pay as
member. It shall be the duty of the secretary to keep a record of all
meetings of said board, and an itemized account of all expenditures
made upon the warrant of said board, and shall perform such other cleri-
cal work as may be required by said board. A copy of said itemized ac-
counts, verified by the oaths of the chairman and secretary, shall be filed
and recorded in the clerk’s office of the circuit court of said county upon
the first day of each term thereof, and a copy posted at the front doot
of the courthouse.

5. Said board may make all necessary contracts and shall requir
proper bonds from the county superintendent of roads and from all con
tractors for the faithful performance of duties and contracts. All worl
and contracts shall be done and performed to the satisfaction of said roac
board, and all moneys shall be paid by the warrant of said road boar
upon the treasurer of said county, which warrants shall designate th
fund from which the same should be paid. ‘The treasurer shall annuall;
settle his accounts with said road board.

6. The board of supervisors of said county shall annually levy, alon:
with the county levy, a special tax upon the property,.real and personal
assessed for taxation in said county, which, together with the county lev.
received from railroad, canal, telegraph, and telephone companies, shal
constitute the road taxes of Dinwiddie county, to be divided as provide:
in sections one and two of this act. Said special tax shall not be less thar
ten nor more than twenty cents on every one hundred dollars in value o!
such property, and shall be collected, accounted for, and paid out as th
general county levy, unless otherwise provided for by this act.

7. No supervisor or other public officer shall have any pecuniary inter
est in any work or contract done or performed under the provisions ©
this act, except as herein provided, except further that the county sur:
veyor may hold the office of county superintendent of roads.

8. The members of the said road board and the county superintendent
of roads shall qualify by taking the usual oath for the faithful perform-
ance of their duties.

9. The governor shall have authority to furnish to the county of Din-
widdie, upon the requisition of the said county road board, convicts whos
terms of service at the time of application for them does not exceed five
years, in conformity with chapter two hundred and two, title fifty-five of
the Code of Virginia, to work on the county reads under such regulation=
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 agreed upon.

10. The road board for Dinwiddie county shall have authority con-
ferred upon the board of supervisors by the general road law, chapter
forty-three of the Code of Virginia, to relocate roads and to establish new
roads.

11. All acts, or parts of acts, in conflict with this act are hereby r-
pealed.