Chap. 75.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act
to provide for a road law for Spotsylvania county, approved February
21, 1898, as amended by an act approved March 14, 1908S, as amended by
an act approved March 13, 1914. [S B 147]

Approved February 23, 1918.

Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That. section
three of an act entitled an act to provide for a road law for Spotsyl-
vania county, approved February twenty-first. eighteen hundred and
ninety-eight, as amended by an act approved March fourteenth, nine-
teen hundred and eight, as amended by an act approved March thir-
teenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen. be amended and re-enacted

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Sec. 3. Office of superintendent. bond. oath. et cetera.—The
board of supervisors shall assign to the superintendent of roads a
room or compartment at the county courthouse as his office, or should
this be found not available, then they shall procure elsewhere at
the county seat a room suitable for such office, and the cost of main-
taining said office shall be paid out of the county road fund.

They shall also provide the said county superintendent of roads
such clerical assistance as they may deem necessary from time to
time, and shall determine what compensation shall be allowed for
such purpose, and provide for its payment out of such county road
funds as may be available. The county superintendent of roads
shall, before assuming his duties, qualify by taking the usual oath
of office before the clerk of the said circuit court of Spotsylvania
county, and execute before him a bond pavable to the Commonwealth
of Virginia, conditioned for the faithful performance of his duties
as superintendent of roads for Spotsylvania county, with security
approved by the board of supervisors in the sum of two thousand
dollars. The cost for premiums on said bond, if any, shall be paid
out of the county road fund.

Said superintendent of roads shall be a constituent part of said
county road board, and shall have an equal voice and vote with the
supervisors in all its meetings and sessions. His salary shall be
fixed by the board of supervisors of Spotsylvania county at. not less
than six hundred dollars nor more than eighteen hundred dollars
per annum. The board of supervisors may at any time allow the
superintendent of roads in addition to his salary, not exceeding one
hundred dollars per annum for traveling expenses, in connection
with the business of his office or in the interest of the county roads
and furnish him with such conveyances for traveling over the roads
as they think proper.

2. An emergency exists and this act shall be in force from its
passage.