CHAP. 15.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 20,
1896, entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in repair ~
the public roads of Buchanan and Dickenson counties. (H. B. 36.)

Approved February 9, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
an act entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in re-
pair the public roads of Buchanan and Dickenson counties, ap-
proved February twentieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and
providing for the constitution of a road board and working and
keeping in repair the public roads in the counties of Buchanan
and Dickenson, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as fol-
ows:

Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That in and for the counties of Buchanan and Dickenson, the
board of supervisors of the respective counties are hereby made
and constituted a road board of their respective counties and
as such shall have worked and kept in repair the public roads
of their respective counties by adopting such rules and regula-
tions as they may deem proper, expedient and necessary. And
shall have power to establish, construct, build and maintain such
new roads and landings, bridges and culverts as they may deem
proper or necessary.

2. Thesaid board is empowered and authorized in the county
of Buchanan to levy a road tax of not exceeding twenty cents
on the one hundred dollars worth of property for each year;
and the said board is empowered and authorized to levy a road
tax of not exceeding fifty cents on the one hundred dollars
worth of property for each year in the county of Dickenson and
may lay a different levy for each magisterial district in the
county of Dickenson, if it so desire, so the same does not ex-
ceed fifty cents on each one hundred dollars worth of property
for each year.

For each year said levy shall be made at the time when the
annual county levies are made, said road levy to be collected
and accounted for by the county treasurer but the tax so levied
and collected in each district shall be used and applied in the
district from which it was collected.

3. The said road board shall meet at such times as they
deem proper to carry out the provisions of this act, and be paid
the same fees now allowed supervisors in the said counties,
provided that said board shall not be paid for more than five
days for any one year under the provisions of this act.

4. The clerk of the circuit court for the respective counties
shall perform the duties of clerk of the said board who shall
receive for his services such sum as said board may deem right
and proper.

An emergency existing by reason of the fact that the
levies mentioned in the said act are to be made in April the same
shall be in force from its passage.