Chap. 435.—An ACT to provide for the construction, improvement. care and
maintenance of the public roads and bridges in the county of Wythe, and to
repeal an act entitled an act to provide for the locating and opening of new
roads, for the altering and discontinuing of any of the existing roads, for
the working, improving and keeping the same in repair; and to provide
for the erection and maintenance of bridges in the county of Wythe; and
to provide a penalty for obstructing or injuring the roads and bridges in
said county, and for repealing all former special road laws for the said
county of Wythe, approved March 14, 1918. [S B 407]

Approved March 23, 1920. .

Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia as follows:

Sec. 1. The provisions of the general road laws of this State, so
far as not inconsistent with the following provisions of this act, shall
be in full force in the county of Wythe.

Sec. 2. When any person or persons appear before the board of
supervisors of the county of Wythe and deposit a sum of money not
exceeding five thousand dollars, or present to the said board of super-
visors a bond payable to the said county with approved security in an
amount double the sum subscribed (provided, however, that the amount
of the said subscription does not exceed five thousand dollars), which
sum «deposited or subscribed as aforesaid is pledged to be used for
the purpose of grading, improving and macadamizing any public road
or part thereof in the said county, or for the purpose of erecting a
bridge as a part of any public road in the said county, the said board
of supervisors are hereby authorized, in their discretion, to appropriate
out of the county road funds, not otherwise appropriated, an amount
equal to the amount so deposited or subscribed as aforesaid to be used
for the purposes aforesaid. Such sums and appropriations shall be
expended upon the order of the board of supervisors, and the said
work shall be done under the supervision of the county road super-
intendent or other person in charge of such road work. The funds so
deposited or subscribed, as aforesaid, shall be turned over to the
county treasurer who shall place the same to the credit of the county
road funds, and his compensation for receiving and disbursing the
amount so deposited, or- subscribed, as the case may be, shall be one-
half of one per cent thereof.

Sec. 3. The board of supervisors of the county of Wythe shall
annually levy, along with the county levy, a county road tax upon the
real and personal property assessed for taxation in Wythe county out-
side of the corporate limits of any incorporated town in such county
which maintains its own streets. Such county road tax shall be not
more than sixty cents on each one hundred dollars in value of such
property, and the same shall be collected, accounted for and paid out
on the warrant of the said board of supervisors, and the treasurer
of the county shall keep such tax in a separate account and it shall be
expended for the purposes provided for in section nineteen hundred
and eighty-six of the Code of Virginia.

Sec. 4. The board of supervisors of the county of Wythe shall
annually levy, along with the county levy a district road tax, for each
district in the said county of Wythe, upon the real and personal prop-
erty assessed for taxation in the said county outside of the corporate
limits of any incorporated town in said county which maintains its
own streets. Such district road tax shall not be more than forty
cents on each one hundred dollars in value of such property, and the
same shall be collected, accounted for and paid out on the warrant
of the board of supervisors, and the treasurer of such county shall
keep such tax in a separate account for each district, and it shall be
expended for the purposes provided for in section nineteen hundred
and eighty-seven of the Code of Virginia. A different rate of taxation
may be levied in each district.

Sec. 5. The judge of the circuit court of said county, at the
request of the board of supervisors, may appoint at such compensation
as the said board of supervisors of Wythe county may fix, for each
day actually engaged at work in discharging the duties of his office,
a supervisor of roads for each of the several magisterial districts of
the counity, or for two or more such districts, who shall have the same
duties with respect to the several districts as are provided in the gen-
eral road law for the county road superintendent. The board of
supervisors may, or may not, in their discretion, appoint a county
superintendent of roads for the entire county.

Sec. 6. It shall be unlawful for any person to obstruct any of
the public roads or bridges of the said county, or to injure the same,
by felling trees across the same, or to place or deposit thereon any
stones, stumps, earth or other obstructions, or in any way to interfere
with the free flow of.water along and in the ditches or waterways
constructed or opened to carry off and drain the said roads. Any
person violating this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than five dollars nor
more than twenty-five dollars.

Sec. 7. An act entitled an act to provide for the locating and
opening of new roads, for the altering and discontinuing of any oi
the existing roads, for the working, improving and keeping the same
in repair ; and to provide for the erection and maintenance of bridges
in the county of Wythe; and to provide a penalty for obstructing or
injuring the roads and bridges in said county, and for repealing all
former special road laws for the said county of Wythe, approved
March fourteenth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, is hereby repealed.

Sec. 8. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its

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