Chap. 75.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of the road law of
Montgomery county, as approved March 14, 1910, which is chapter
173 of the acts of the general assembly of 1910. [H B 55]

Approved September 9, 1919.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section six of an act approved March fourteenth, nineteen hun-
dred and ten, as heretofore amended, entitled an act to provide
for the working and keeping in repair the public roads and
bridges, and to regulate the manner of opening new roads in the
county of Montgomery, be amended and re-enacted so as to read
as follows:

Sec. 6. Each road commissioner shall be allowed not ex-
ceeding four dollars per day for actual time employed, not to
exceed one hundred dollars in any one year, and no allowance
shall be made to said commissioner unless an itemized account
showing the dates and number of days and the character and
place the services were rendered, duly sworn to as other accounts
presented before the board, is first made out and filed by said
commissioner before the board of supervisors. In addition to the
duties heretofore imposed, it shall be the duty of each road com-
missioner to see that the roads in his district are kept of neces-
sary width, well drained and rounded up in the center, free from
loose stones and other impediments to travel, and secure from
the danger of falling timber, and when such danger is apparent,
shall order the trees cut and removed, and when and wherever
the roads are not of lawful width shall order the foreman to re-
move all fences and other obstructions.

He shall see that all bridges are kept in proper repair, and
shall cause to be placed and kept at the fork and crossing of
every road a sign-board, on which shall be stated in plain let-
ters the most noted places to which each road leads, and the
distance thereto; and across every stream, where necessary and
practicable, a sufficient bridge, bench, or log for the accommoda-
tion of foot passengers.

2. By reason of the fact that an account of the prevailing
high prices of labor and products, it js impossible to secure road
commissioners at the existing prices allowed by the present road
law, and the roads being in need of immediate attention, an
emergency is declared to exist, and this act shall be in force
from its passage.