Chap. 125.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend
and re-enact an act entitled an act to establish a general road fund for
the permanent improvement of roads and bridges of Dinwiddie county;
to create a road board for Dinwiddie county, and prescribe its powers
and duties, and to provide for the appointment of a county superinten-
dent of roads, and to regulate his duties, approved March 8, 1904, as
amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 15, 1906, as amended
and re-enacted by an act approved March 12, 1908.

Approved March 10, 1910.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act
entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to establish
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, to prescribe its powers and duties, and to provide for the appoint-
ment of county superintendent of roads and to regulate his duties, ap-
proved March eighth, nineteen hundred and four, as amended and re-
enacted by an act approved March fifteenth, nineteen hundred and six,
as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March twelfth, nineteen
hundred and eight, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

81. The board of supervisors of Dinwiddie county shall create a
special road fund by setting apart and appropriating thereto one-half of
the road tax of said county in each year, which special road fund and
such other moneys as may be lawfully appropriated thereto shall be ex-
pended for the permanent improvement of the main public roads of said
county. Permanent improvement shall include only the building of
macadam, gravel or sand-clay roads, or the repairing of roads which have
been improved permanently with State aid, or the doing of work on main
public roads under the direction or with the approval of the State high-
way commissioner, and the said special fund may be used in order to
obtain the benefit of any laws which may be passed granting State aid to
county highways.

82. The other half of said road tax shall be set apart for the build-
ing and repair of the bridges and for the repair of roads, and shall be
known as the bridge and repair fund.

83. There is hereby created a- board to be known as the road board of
Dinwiddie county, which shall consist of one member from each magis-
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 the said road board.
The said road board shall have the general supervision and control of all
the roads and bridges in Dinwiddie county, and on the part of the said
county, shall agree with the adjoining counties and cities in regard to the
direction and maintenance of bridges between said counties and such
adjoining counties and cities. It shall have authority, and it shall be its
duty, to designate the road or parts of roads in each district of said
county, to be known as the main public road, and to specify the character
of improvement to be made on each road. So far as practicable each
main public road shall be improved in a permanent manner out of the
fund set apart under section one of this act, with such aid 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
be 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
maintaining of bridges in said county, or between said county and some
other county or city.

§4. The road board shall appoint one of its members chairman, and
may appoint one of its members secretary, and may appoint a county
superintendent of roads, who shall be a civil eigineer, or a person skilled
in road building, and who shall hold office during the term of one year,
and receive such compensation and perform such duties as may be by said
board prescribed. Said board shall constitute, empower and direct a
county superintendent of roads to construct, or have constructed, by con-
tract, by the lowest responsible bidder, to repair, or have repaired, 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 lowest respon-
sible bidder, the repair and maintenance, according to plans and specifi-
cations to be prepared by him and approved by said road board, 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 specifications for all bridges to be constructed and repaired by
contract, and shall not let any such contract without the approval of
said road board, and all contract work, superintendent may reject any
and all bids. Said board may employ such engineers, agents or servants
as may be necessary, prescribe their duties and fix their compensation,
and shall have full power to purchase machinery, teams, supplies and
materials, and perform all other things necessary to carry out the pro-
visions of this act. It shall also have authority to prevent the public
from traveling on any roads, or portion of road, while the same is being
built, improved or repaired, and after reasonable notice to the parties in
interest to remove any fences or other obstruction to the roads of said
county, and any person who shall attempt to interfere with said board, or
its agent, in the dischagre of such duty, shall be deemed guilty of a mis-
demeanor, and be fined not less than twenty dollars nor more than one
hundred dollars for each offense. If the beds of the public roads of the
county be encroached upon or the necessary water drains be destroyed or
obstructed, by persons cultivating on either side of the road, it shall be
the duty of the superintendent, or member of the road board of his dis-
trict, to notify the person so trespassing by written or personal notice to
repair the damage or remove the obstruction, and if the same is not done
within ten days after notice, such obstruction shall be removed or damage
repaired and the road board may recoved the expense, with cost, before
any magistrate of the county. All salaries, machinery, teams and sup-
plies and wages for permanent work shall be paid out of the said special
road fund. All material for bridges and repair work, and all labor per-
formed theron, shall be paid out of the said bridge and repair fund. The
members of said board shall each receive the sum of forty dollars per
year. The secretary shall receive twenty-five dollars per year, and if he
be a member of said board, this amount shall be in addition to his pay as
member. In addition to above named salary, the members of the board,
other than the chairman, may receive the sum of two dollars per day for
actual inspection of the roads of their respective districts, returns of said
inspection to be made in writing, roads inspected named, and any recom-
mendation deemed proper made, but in no case shall the sum paid for
inspection exceed the sum of ten dollars per annum in any one district.
It shall be the duty of the secretary to keep a record of all the meetings
of said board, and an itemized account of all expenditures made upon the
warrant of said board, and shall perform such other clerical work as may
be required by said board. A copy of said itemized account, 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 door of the courthouse.
The members of the said road board shall each give a bond in the penalty
of two thousand dollars conditioned for the faithful performance of their
duties of said offices. And said superintendent shall give a bond in the
penalty of at least one thousand dollars, for the faithful performance of
his duties.

85. Said board may make all necessary contracts and may require
proper bond from all contractors for faithful performance of contract ;
all work in contract shall be done and performed to the satisfaction of
the said road board, and all money shall be paid by the warrant of said
road board upon the treasurer of said county, which warrants shall desig-
nate the fund from which the same should be made. ‘The treasurer shall
annually settle his account with the road board and board of supervisors.

§6. The board of supervisors of said county shall annually levy, along
with county levy, a special tax upon the property, real and personal, as-
sessed for taxation in said county, which, together with the county levy,
received from railroads, canals, telegraph and telephone companies, shall
constitute the road taxes of Dinwiddie county, to be divided as provided
in sections one and two of this act. Said special tax shall not be less than
ten nor more than twenty cents on every one hundred dollars in value of
euch property, and shall be collected, accounted for and paid out of the
general county levy, unless otherwise provided for by this act. The
said board of supervisors shal] have the authority to appropriate to the
general road fund, provided for by this act, any balance that may remain
at the end of any fiscal year to the credit of the county fund or levy, or
80 much of said balance as said board may deem it wise to appropriate,
and the said board may, at any time, appropriate the said general fund
sums from the county levy as it may deem necessary and proper in addition
to the special tax hereinbefore provided for, and the county levy received
from railroads, canals, telegraph and telephone companies.

_ §%. No supervisors or other public officers shal] have any pecuniary
Interest in any work or contract done or performed under the provisions
of this act except as herein provided, except further that the county sur-
veyor may hold office of county superintendent of roads.

§8. The members of the said road board and the county superinten-
dent of roads shall qualify by taking the usual oath for the faithful per-
formance of their duties.

§9. The road board of 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 and to establish new
roads.

§10. All acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby re-
pealed.