Chap. 341.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide
for the improvement and working of roads in the county of Henrico, and
for the construction and repair of bridges therein, and to repeal an act
of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 6, 1882, entitled an
act for laying out and working roads in Henrico county, approved March
1, 1884, as heretofore amended.

Approved March 17, 1910.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the act
entitled an act to provide for the improvement and working of the roads
in the county of Henrico and for the construction and repair of bridges
therein, and to repeal an act of the general assembly of Virginia ap+
proved March sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, entitled an act
for laying out and working roads in Henrico county, approved March
first, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, as heretofore amended, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§1. There shall be a road board for Henrico county, composed of
four men, one from each of the four magisterial districts of the county.
They shall be appointed by the joint vote of the judge of the circuit court,
the clerk of said court, the Commonwealth’s attorney, and the county
surveyor of said county, by a unanimous vote of said officials. The
appointment of said road board shall be made during the month of
March of each year, and the judge of the circuit court shall enter an
order in vacation showing the appointment of the said road board and
the names and residences of the members of the same.

§2. The said road commissioners shall qualify before the clerk of the
eircuit court of the county by taking the usual oath prescribed for other
county officials and shall enter upon the discharge of their duties on the
first day of April next succeeding their appointment and remain in
office one year and until their successors shall have been appointed and
qualified.

§3. Said commissioners may be removed from office in the same man-
ner and for the same causes for which supervisors may be removed.

§4. Any vacancy in said board may be supplied by the remaining
members of said board; but the person appointed to fill a vacancy shall
be a resident of the district which is not represented on the board at the
time of the vacancy, and shall hold for the unexpired term.

85. The said board shall appoint one of its members chairman, and
may appoint one of its members secretary, and shall appoint a county
superintendent of roads, who shall be a practical road builder, and shall
hold office for the same tcrm as the said road commissioners, and may be
removed for cause by said road-commissioners. The said superintendent
of roads shall receive such compensation as may be determined by the
board of road commissioners, not to exceed fifteen hundred dollars per
annum, to be paid in equal monthly installments, and perform such
duties as may be prescribed by said board.

86. The said board of road commissioners shal] have all of the powers
heretofore vested in the board of supervisors of said county of Henrico
under the general law and all special acts, in so far as such laws and
acts may apply to the public roads and bridges of the said county of
Henrico, and for the opening of new roads and the closing of abandoned
roads, and as such shall act as viewers and appraisers heretofore ap-
pointed by the board of supervisors, but when acting as such viewers and
appraisers shall act without compensation. Said commissioners may
employ such engineers, assistant superintendents and laborers as to them
may be deemed necessary, and prescribe their duties and fix their com-
pensation, and shall have full power to purchase tools, machinery, teams,
supplies and material, and perform all other duties incident and neces-
sary to carry out the provisions of this act, including the letting to con-
tract any or all work of construction or permanent improvement.

$7. The board of supervisors of the county shall turn over to the road
board all teams and other property owned by the county or districts for
road purposes as soon as said road board is organized, and the road hoard
shall hold the same just as the supervisors held them.
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§8. The members of said board shall each receive one hundred dollars
per annum for services rendered under this act, to be paid in equal
monthly installments. The secretary shall receive seventy-five dollars
per year, and if he be a member of the board this amount shall be in
addition to the pay received by him as a member of the road board. 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, and he
shall perform such other clerical work as may be required of him by
said board. A copy of said itemized account, verified by the oath of the
chairman and the secretary, shall be filed at the last meeting in March of
each year, and a copy posted at the front door of the courthouse on the
first day of the next term of the court.

§9. Said board may make all necessary contracts and shall require
proper bonds from the county superintendent of roads and from all con-
tractors for the faithful performance of their duties and contracts. All
work and contracts shall be done and performed to the satisfaction of
said commissioners and accepted and approved by them before any pay-
ments shall be made thereon. Said commissioners shall approve all bills
contracted by them, and the chairman of the board of supervisors shall
audit and pay the same and also all salaries provided for under this act
out of the proper road funds.

§10. The board of supervisors of said county of Henrico shall an-
nually levy, along with the county levy, a special tax upon the property,
real and personal, assessed for taxation in each magisterial district, of
not less than ten cents nor more than twenty-five cents on the one hun-
dred dollars of value, the amount to be determined by the board of road
commissioners, and the assessment in each district may vary in amount
as necessity may require. The tax of each magisterial district shall be
kept separate, and an account must be kept by the county treasurer for
each district, to be known as the district road fund for such district. The
road tax received from railroads, canals, telegraph and telephone com-
panies together with the county levy of five cents on the one hundred
dollars of taxable values, shall constitute the county road fund, to be
equally divided between the four magisterial districts after the payment
of the salaries provided for in this act.

§11. No road commissioner or other public officer shall have any
pecuniary interest in any work done or contract made under the pro-
visions of this act, nor sell anything for use under this act, except that
the county surveyor may be employed by the board to do any necessary
engineering.

§12. The said board of road commissioners shall have power to con-
solidate the road force of any or all the districts at any time, if in their
judgment they deem it expedient for the best interests of the public, but
only the moneys for each district shall be spent therein.

813. The county superintendent of roads shall cast the deciding vote
in case of a tie in the said road board.

§14. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby
repealed.

815. Before this act shall go into effect it must be approved by a
majority of the qualified voters of Henrico county at the general election
to be held November, nineteen hundred and ten. The board of super-
visors of the county shall have printed as many ballots as are required
for congressman at said election, upon which shall be printed “For new
road law” and “Against new road law,” in two lines. The voter shall
mark out the line for new road law if opposed to the law, and against
new road law if in favor of the law. The manner of voting these ballots
shall be the same as in other elections. If a majority of those voting on
the road question shall vote for the new road law this act shall go into
effect, otherwise it shal] not go into effect.