Chap. 246.—An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 515 of acts of the assembly
of 1902-3, entitled an act to work and keep in repair roads and bridges in
the county Stafford. :

Approved March 13, 1908.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act
entitled an act to work and keep in repair roads and bridges in the
county of Stafford, approved April second, nineteen hundred and two,
he amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That on and
after the first day of February, nineteen hundred and eight, it shall be
lawful for the county of Stafford, to work and keep in repair highways,
roads and bridges, as follows:

The board of supervisors of said county shall take charge of, and
have worked and kept in repair, all roads and public bridges, heretofore
and hereafter established, and for this purpose they are authorized and
empowered to levy a road tax, not exceeding in any one year fifty cents
upon the one hundred dollars of taxable values in said county, unless a
petition should be presented to said board, signed by a majority of the
freeholders of any district in said county, requesting an increase in said
tax in said district, which said petition shall show the rates of tax
asked for in said district.

§2. It shall be the duty of the supervisor of each magisterial district
to give personal supervision to all roads and bridges in his district, and
to see that the roads worked by contract or otherwise are properly
worked, and where there is a violation of any contract by a contractor,
he shall at once institute proceedings to the attorney for the Common-
wealth, in the name of the board of supervisors, for the recovery olf
damages for any* breach of contract. The said supervisors shall each
receive as compensation for such services the sum of twenty dollars per
annum, to be paid out of the county levy.

§3. The board of supervisors shall provide for all cost of roads and
bridges now in existence, and for opening and altering new roads, and
building new bridges or rebuilding old ones, to be levied, collected and
paid out according to provisions of law, which work shall be done in
such way and manner as the said board shall prescribe: provided, that
all expenses for bridges that cost over twenty-five dollars for building
or repairing, the same shall be paid out of the county levy, but the said
board shall not expend in any one year more than the amount for the
levy of said fiscal year unless they shall accumulate money out of the
previous levies, in which case they are authorized to spend said moneys
so accumulated.

§4. No member of the board of supervisors, shall, directly or indi-
rectly, be interested in any contract made under this act.

§5. All levies made under this act shall be extended by the commis-
sioners of the revenue upon their books separate and apart from other
levies, and only be expended in the district in which they are agsessed.

§6. It shall be left to the discretion of the board of supervisors

whether the road shall be worked by overseers, by contract or otherwise,
and for such roads as the board shall deem advisable. It may appoint
overseers who shall serve for a term of two years. The overseers ap-
pointed hereunder shall receive twelve and one-half cents per hour for
the time they are actually engaged upon the work on the roads, not
including the time of going to and returning from the work. Each
overseer shall submit to the board an itemized statement, under oaths,
showing the amount of time he has worked upon the road, the time
each man employed by him has worked, and the number of poles used,
and the value of other timber and material used and from whose lands
taken.
§7. Schedule-—For work on the road under an overseer, the time of
going to and returning from work not to be computed, the compensa-
tion for a two-horse team and driver shall be twenty-five cents per hour
actual work; one-horse team and driver fifteen cents per hour actual
work; four-horse team and driver forty cents per hour actual work;
hands ten cents per hour actual work. .

§8. The board of supervisors of said county is hereby authorized to
purchase such tools, implements and machinery, as well as teams that
may be needed for work on the public roads, and to hire men for any
special work at a compensation to be agreed upon by the board all
money raised by road tax levied under this act shall be expended in the
district where collected, and in the case an overseer is appointed to
work any road, the supervisor of the district, or the supervisors of the
district in which the road lies, shall on January first of each year notify
the said overseers of the amount of money to be spent in work for his
roads for that year, and he shall not receive pay or bind the board of
supervisors of his district for any amount in excess of the amount
allotted by the board of supervisors for the said road.

§9. Owing to the low rate of wages authorized by the act approved
April second, nineteen hundred and two, and the impossibility of
securing labor and teams at the said low rate, there is an emergency,
and this act shall be in force from its passage.