Chap. 100.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 6, 9, 10 and 12, of
an act entitled an act to provide for the building, working and re-
pairing of public roads of Sussex county, and to authorize any mag-
isterial district therein to borrow money and to issue bonds for the
purpose of building said roads, and to provide for the payment of
such bonds and the interest to accrue thereon, and authorizing the
county to issue bonds for any magisterial district road purposes, ap-
proved March 16, 1910. (H. B. 75.)

Approved March 1, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
sections six, nine, ten and twelve of an act entitled an act to
provide for the building, working and repairing of public roads
of Sussex county, and to authorize any magisterial district
therein to borrow money and to issue bonds for the purpose of
building said roads, and to provide for the payment of such
bonds and the interest to accrue thereon, and authorizing the
county to issue bonds for any magisterial district road pu Doses,
approved March sixteenth, nineteen hundred and ten,
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 6. The said superintendent shall deliver to the board
of supervisors, along with the report provided for in section
four of this act, a statement of all labor employed by him, to-
gether with the price agreed to be paid per day, or per month,
and also of any other expenses incurred by him as such super-
intendent. The said statement shall be sworn to, and when said
statement shall have been approved by said board, and not until
then, warrants shall be issued for the several amounts shown
to be due by said statement. In order to enable said road super-
intendent to settle in cash with the men employed by him to
work on such roads, it shall be lawful for the board of super-
visors to issue a warrant in his favor for a sum not to exceed
five hundred dollars, at any one time, to be used by said super-
intendent exclusively in the payment for work done upon the
roads of his road district, and for board of team, and if he shall
use the same for any other purpose, he shall be guilty of a mis-
demeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined or imprisoned, or
both, in the discretion of the court or jury trying the case. Said
superintendent shall keep the money so advanced to him de-
posited in one of the banks of Sussex county to his credit as
road superintendent, and shall pay the same out only on checks
signed by him as such road superintendent. He shall return
to the board of supervisors, with the statement required by sec-
tion six of this act, all cancelled checks drawn by him as afore-
said, and the board of supervisors are authorized to credit said
superintendent on the amount advanced to him, the aggregate
amount of the cancelled checks so returned by him as afore-
said, when it shall appear that said checks were given in pay-
ment of items included in the statement mentioned in section
six of this act.

Sec. 9. It shall be lawful for said board of supervisors to
hire or buy such teams, tools or implements as it may be deemed
necessary to build, work and keep in order the roads of any road
district, out of the funds belonging to the magisterial district
which compose such road districts, and such property so pur-
chased shall belong to the magisterial districts composing such
road district; and it shall also be lawful for such board to pur-
chase teams, tools, implements and machines to an amount not
exceeding two thousand dollars in any one year in any road dis-
trict on a credit, and to levy a tax to pay the same in the suc-
ceeding year thereafter.

Sec. 10. It shall be the duty of each supervisor at least two
times in each year to ride over the roads of his magisterial dis-
trict, and at the next meeting of said board thereafter to make
a report in writing of the condition of the roads in his district,
and for the service required of said supervisor by this act, each
of them shall receive as their compensation the sum of two dol-
lars for each day, not to exceed twenty-five in one year, he may
be engaged in discharging his duties in connection with work
on the bridges and roads of his district.

Sec. 12. The said board shall annually levy, along with the
countv levy, a tax on all property, real and personal, assessed
for State taxation in the. several road districts aforesaid, for
the building, working, repairing and keeping in order of the
public roads and bridges under this act (the repair of bridges
to be paid out of the county fund). which tax shall not exceed
seventy cents on the one hundred dollars of said property, and
said tax shall be laid separately on each magisterial district,
and may be of different rates in different magisterial districts;
and of the moneys collected by the county treasurer in each
magisterial district, a separate account shall be kept, and the
same shall be expended in the magisterial district in which
they were collected.