Chap. 41.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to
amend and re-enact an act approved March 13, 1914, entitled an act
to provide a road law for Spotsylvania county, and all acts subsequent
thereto, approved March 24, 1922. fH B 59]

Approved March 20, 1923.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved
March thirteenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, entitled an
act to provide a road law for Spotsylvania county, and all acts
subsequent thereto, approved March twenty-fourth, nineteen
hundred and twenty-two, be amended and re-enacted so as to
read as follows:

Section 1. The management and control of all roads in the
county of Spotsylvania shall be placed under the direction of
the board of supervisors of the said county, who are hereby
constituted a road board for the purpose.

The board of supervisors are empowered and authorized to
levy annually, not in conflict with general laws, a road tax of
not exceeding sixty (60) cents on the one hundred dollars
valuation of all taxable property, which together with such
other moneys as may be derived from any road tax upon
telephone lines, railroads, et cetera, shall constitute a road

und.

The said road board shall adopt economical, modern, pro-
gressive and uniform standards for the construction and re-
pair of roads; shall carefully scrutinize all expenditures of road
funds, and in their discretion shall require all persons who use
wagons, carts or other vehicles in said county to provide such
wagons, carts or other vehicles with tires of such width as
they, the said board, may prescribe, upon such conditions as
they may prescribe, and may prescribe such penalty for the
failure of any person to comply with said requirements or
order as they may deem best.

The said board may also erect toll gates on such of the roads
of the county or any district thereof as they may deem proper,
at not less than five miles apart and fix the rate of toll for the
various kinds of vehicles, automobiles, locomobiles, and _ so
forth, in proportion to the damage done by such vehicles, and
from the action of the board in fixing such rates of toll, et
cetera, there shall be no appeal. No toll gate shall be main-
tained where the cost of keeping said gate exceeds fifteen (15)
per centum of gross receipts in any six months period.

The said road board is authorized to make and publish such
orders and regulations governing the use of the said road as
it may deem wise and proper in regard to hauling any loads
over the road. this not to apply to school children or individual
travel and said road board, while the same is being built, im-
proved or repaired, and thereafter when such travel would, by
weather conditions, in the opinion of said road board, greatly
damage such road and may prescribe such penalty for the
failure of any person to comply with said order or regulation
as they may deem best; to proceed, by warrant, against all
parties plowing up, moving or otherwise encroaching upon or
obstructing said road; or driving vehicles unnecessarily into
or along the ditches on the side of said road; ta require drivers
of wagons to accompany same while same are in motion upon
said public roads; and any party so convicted shall be punished
as for a misdemeanor and fined not less than five nor more
than twenty-five dollars... Said road board may appoint for
each of the districts in the county as many persons as said
board may deem necessary, to report to said board or a justice
of the peace, without compensation, all violations of this act
or of any order passed by said board in pursuance thereof.

It shall be the duty of such member of said road board of
each district of Spotsylvania county to see that the roads in
his district are kept cleared, smoothed of rocks and other ob-
structions, of necessary width; that the beds of the road are
raised in the middle and sloped gradually each way to the
sides, well drained, and secure from the falling of dead timber
thereon, and otherwise in good order; that if needs be, a suit-
able sign board be placed and kept at every important fork or
crossing, on which shall be stated in plain letters the most
noted place to which each road leads; that bridges be con-
structed and maintained in a safe, Substantial condition, and
where the beds of said roads are encroached upon, the mem-
bers of said board for such district shall notify the person tres-
passing by written notice to remove the obstruction, and if the
same be not done in ten days, he shall cause said obstruction
to be removed and may recover the expense with costs from
said trespasser before any justice of the peace of said district.

The said road board shall have authority to direct a sur-
veyor of said county to define the boundary of any road
therein; to alter the grade of any existing road, and to per-
form such other service as may be necessary to carry out the
provisions of this act, for which service the said surveyor shall
- receive reasonable compensation from the said board, not ex-
ceeding, however, four dollars per day, payable out of the road
und.

The said road board may adopt such methods of working
and repairing said roads as the board shall deem best; they
may purchase or hire such teams, road machines, engines, 1m-
plements, tools, wagons, camp equipment and all other neces-
sary articles for the use of the employees working said roads;
to hire such labor as may be necessary and put the same to
work for such time during the year as they may deem best on
any of the roads of said county, under a foreman appointed
by the members of said board for each district, who shall be
manager of the same, under the direction and control of the
member of said road board for his district.

All road taxes shall be expended in the district from which
they are collected; provided, however, that the construction
and repair of bridges shall be under the control and supervision
of the board of supervisors, and cost of said construction and
repair may be paid for out of the county levy.

Each member of the said road board, for his district, shall
keep a strict and faithful record of his expenditures of said
road fund in his district, require itemized accounts for all ex-
penditures. pay all bills out of said road fund, and shall on the
first, day of July of every year produce before ‘the commissioner
of accounts of the circuit court of Spotsylvania county, itemized
bills showing disbursements of said money so expended and
it shall be the dutv of the commissioner of accounts to examine
said accounts and if he finds them correct to certify the same
and deliver the accounts so approved by him to the clerk of
the circuit court of Spotsylvania county to be kept on file by
said clerk in his office.

The county treasurer shall keep the road fund separate
from other tax funds, keeping an account with each district
separately.

For all services rendered by the said supervisors under this
act, they shall each be entitled to receive as compensation a
sum not exceeding seventy-two dollars in any one year, except
as members of the road board of Spotsylvania county there
shall be allowed each member two dollars and fifty cents per
day for each day, not exceeding four days in any one month
spent in inspecting the roads of their several districts, pro-
vided they make due report of the condition of said roads of
said district at next meeting succeeding said inspection.

Any person or persons violating any of the provisions of
this act, concerning the roads and bridges in said county, may
be proceeded against, as for a misdemeanor, by a warrant
from a justice of the peace of the county tryable in the district
in which the offense occurred.

2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are
hereby repealed, so far as they affect Spotsylvania county.

3. By reason of the necessity of consummating the result
provided in this act, an emergency exists and this act shall be
in force from its passage.