Chap. 84.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide
for the working and keeping in repair the public roads of Amherst. county,
as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 2, 1898, and as

— further amended by an act approved March 15, 1904, which latter act was
further amended by an act approved March 16, 1910, which said amend-
ment and the amendment herein contained being for the purpose of
authorizing the board of supervisors of said county to work and improve
the public rouds of said county, expend any surplus money on the roads
and bridges of said county and authorize the erection of toll gates on
certain roads in said county for the purpose of raising revenue to main-
tain and build, macadamize and otherwise permanently improve roads in
said county, approved February 20, 1912, as amended by an act approved
March 16, 1916. { H B 112]

Approved February 28, 1918.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an
act entitled an act to provide for the working and keeping in repair
the public roads of Amherst county, as amended and re-enacted bv
an act approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight,
and as further amended by an act approved March fifteenth, nine-
teen hundred and four, which latter act was further amended by an
act approved March sixteenth, nineteen hundred and ten, which said
amendment and the amendment herein contained being for the pur-
pose of authorizing the board of supervisors of said county to work
and improve the public roads of said county, expend any surplus
money on the roads and bridges of said county, and authorize the
erection of toll gates on certain roads in said county for the pe ose
of raising revenue to maintain and build, macadamize and other-
wise permanently improve roads in said county, approved February
twentieth, nineteen hundred and twelve, as amended by an act ap-
proved March sixteenth, nineteen hundrd and sixteen, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 1. That in and for the county of Amherst the board of
supervisors of said county are hereby made and constituted the road
board for said county, and as such shall have worked and kept in
repair the public roads of said county in accordance with such rules
and regulations as they may deem proper, expedient and necessary,
which rules and regulations shall be recorded on the minute book
of said board.

Sec. 2. The board of supervisors of Amherst county is directed
and authorized to levy (when it makes its annual levy) such a dis-
trict road levy as may be desired and required by said board to carry
out the purposes of this act not to exceed twenty-five cents on the one
hundred dollars’ assessed value of property, to be collected and
accounted for as are other levies by the county treasurer. The tax
so levied and collected in each district shall be used and applied in
that respective district by said road board, except that of the rail-
roads, telephones and telegraph lines, which shall be equally divided
between the four districts, and in addition to said district road tax
and the annual estimate and provision made in the county road
levy for building bridges, opening new roads, and so forth, the said
board of supervisors are hereby authorized and empowered to make
an additional levy not to exceed the sum provided under the general
laws to be collected and accounted for by the county treasurer like
other levies and to be kept as a separate fund; and when said road
board shall deem it advisable, they may allow said fund to accumu-
late and may direct the treasurer of said county to deposit so much
of said surplus fund as he may have on hand from time to time in
one or more banks, taking therefor an interest-bearing certificate
payable to said treasurer upon the order of said board, together with
approved security for such deposits, this and any other surplus of
the county funds now at any time in said county treasury, which
may be available for the purpose, the said board of supervisors, by
and through said road board of said county, is authorized and
empowered to use as said road board may deem advisable and neces-
sary in repairing, relocating, regrading and the improvement. of
the public roads, as well as opening new roads and building bridges
in said county, under such rules and regulations as said road board
may adopt as heretofore provided.

‘Sec. 3. At the annual or such other settlements as may be had
hy said board of supervisors with the treasurer of said county
amounts collected and paid out by said treasurer and expended by
said road board, shall be audited and accounted for as other county
levies are audited and accounted for.

sec. 4. Said road board shall meet on the first Tuesday in each
month in regular session, and for such called meetings as the chair-
man mav designate, and for actual attendance on said board each
member shall receive the sum of two dollars and fifty cents. but. not
to receive pay for more than twenty-five meetings In uny one year.
and for other services rendered in inspection and supervising roads
the sum of four dollars per day, accounts for such services to be
itemized and sworn to; provided. however, that no member, for the
latter service, shall receive payment for more than forty days in
any one year.

Sec. 5. The county clerk of Amherst shall perform the duties
of clerk of said road board, said clerk to receive for this additional
service one hundred and seventy-five dollars per year, and the Com-
monwealth’s attorney for said county shall be the legal adviser of
said road board, with the same duties and powers as are provided
and imposed on him by Jaw in connection with the board of super-
visors. Said attorney for the Commonwealth shall receive for
this additional service such sums as the said board may deem right
and proper.

Sec. 6. In order the better to maintain such macadam roads as
have or may hereafter be built in the county of Amherst and to
provide a sinking fund to meet the payment of bonds issued for the
construction of said roads and to pay interest on said bonds, whether
already or to be hereafter issued for said purpose, the road board
shall have, and they are hereby given, the power to erect and main-
tain toll gates in such places on said macadam roads as may be
dleemed proper and to demand and collect toll on said roads; but no
such tool gate to be established within one mile of the corporate
limits of the city of Lynchburg, nor within the corporate limits of
any town in said county, except as hereinafter provided. And said
road board at their June and December meetings of each year are
authorized and empowered to fix the rate of tolls on said roads, pass
and adopt rules and regulations for the collection of said tolls, and
the proper use of said roads, a copy of which rates, rules and regula-
tions shall be posted at each toll gate operated hereunder, and at
the front door of the courthouse of said county; but. said tolls shall
not exceed the rates provided by the general law; provided that said
board shall not have power to impose or collect any toll on persons
traveling on foot along said roads. The road board of Amherst
county are further authorized and empowered to appoint such
agents and collectors for receiving said tolls as they may think pro-
per, requiring of the same proper bonds, with security, and such
agents or collectors shall receive a commission or salary for their
services, as the said board may deem most advisable, the said tolls
so collected to be paid over at least once every month to, and re-
ceived and accounted for by the county treasurer of Amherst county
under his official bond as are the ordinary county levies, he to receive
in compensation an’ adequate commission on the tolls so paid over
to him; provided, the same is not a larger commission than is paid
to the treasurer on other county levies, the commission to be fixed by
said road board. The fund collected by tolls as aforesaid are to be
expended upon the warrant of the county road board under the
provisions of this act, in paying the cost of maintaining toll gates,
repairs of said macadam roads, payment of interest on road bonds.
and providing a sinking fund; and should the fund so realized be
sufficient, to apply any surplus to the building of other macadam
roads and bridges in the county of Amherst. The road board may,
In its discretion, erect a toll gate at the forks of the Sandiges and
Clifford road, within the corporate limits of the town of Amherst;
provided, that no toll shall be collected from any person for passing
through said gates from one point within the corporate limits of
said town to any other point within said limits.

Sec. 7. But it is herein provided that after the establishment
of toll gates, as hereinbefore mentioned, and after the same have
continued for two years, upon a petition of a number of qualified
voters not less than twenty-five per centum of the number of quali-
fied voters of the county of Amherst that voted in the last preceding
regular November election to the circuit court of the county of
Amherst, asking for an election to determine whether said toll gates
shall be continued, or whether they shall be discontinued that the
said court shall order a special election for that purpose, the same
to be held and conducted, the returns canvassed and contested, as
other special elections are held, and conducted, and the expenses of
said special election to be paid as in elections held under sections
five hundred and eighty-one, five hundred and eighty-two, five hun-
dred and eighty-three, five hundred and eighty-six of the Code of
Virginia and Pollard’s Code, as amended so far as said provisions
may be applicable and not in conflict with the provisions of this act.

Those qualified to vote in any election held under this act shall
be those qualified to vote at the last preceding regular November
election and those that may have come of age and qualified to vote
since said last November election. If the returns of the said election
show that a majority of the voters voting in said election voted
in favor of discontinuing said toll gates, the same shall be discon-
tinued.

Sec. 8. An emergency existing, due to the fact the county is
obliged to operate two toll gates, on the Sandidges and Clifford
roads, respectively, which is a loss to said county and whereas under
the provisions of this act only one gate may be maintained, an
emergency is declared to exist, and this act shall be in force from
its passage.