CHAP. 127.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 7,
1894, entitled “an act to provide for working and keeping in repair the
public roads of Nelson county,” as amended by an act approved Feb-
muary, 26, 1896, and as further amended by an act approved March

Approved March 11, 1912.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
an act approved March seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-
four, entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in re-
pair the public roads of Nelson county, as amended by an act
approved February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-
six, and as further amended by an act approved March third,
eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, be amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:

That in and for the county of Nelson the board of supervi-
sors are hereby made and constituted a road board, and as such
shall have worked and kept in repair the public roads and bridges
of said county by adopting such rules and regulations as they
may deem proper, expedient and necessary.

2. The board of supervisors of Nelson county is directed
and authorized to levy (when it makes its annual county levy)
such a road tax as may be desired and required by said road
board to carry out the purposes of this act not to exceed fifty
cents on the one hundred dollars’ worth of property, to be col-
lected by the county treasurer; but the tax so levied and col-
lected in each district shall be used and applied in that respect-
ive magisterial district by said road board, except that of the
railroad, telegraph and telephone lines, which shall be equally
divided between the three districts.

Provided, further, that with the approval of the members of
the board of supervisors of Massie’s Mill magisterial district of
said county, the funds thus applicable to said Massie’s Mill dis-
trict, including any funds that may be derived from any bend
issue or issues for such district, may to the extent approved by
the member of the board of supervisors of said district, and by
the board of supervisors of Nelson county be applied to the
grading, macadamizing and maintaining of the public road
known as the Arrington-Roseland road from Arrington in Lov-
mgston magisterial district, to the line between said Lovingston
and Massie’s Mill magisterial district of said county.

3. Said board shall meet the first Saturday in July, nine-
teen hundred and twelve, and at special meetings as often as may
be necessary as determined by a majority of said board; and for
actual attendance on said board each member shall receive the
sum of three dollars a day and for other services rendered in su-
pervising and inspecting roads the sum of three dollars a day,
accounts for such services to be itemized and sworn to: provided,
however, that no member for the latter service shall receive more
et ile hundred dollars for any one year for services on road

oard.

4. But it is not intended by this act to repeal in any man-
ner whatever the powers and duties of the circuit court as set
forth in section nine hundred and eighty-seven of the Code of
eighteen hundred and eighty-seven in regard to great and unfore-
seen damages, emergencies and so forth.

5. The clerk of the county shall perform the duties of clerk
for said road board, who shall receive for his services such com-
pensation as said board may deem right and proper.

6. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are here-
by repealed.