Chap. 188.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 14, 17, 19, 21 of an act
of the general assembly, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act for
working and keeping in repair the roads of the county of Tazewell, ap-
proved February 24, 1888, and further to provide for permanent improve-
ment of the roads in said county, approved February 29, 1892, as amended
and re-enacted by an act approved February 12, 1894, as amended by an act
approved January 11, 1900.

\ Approved January 27, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sections
fourteen, seventeen, nineteen, and twenty-one of an act of the general
assembly, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act for w orking and
keeping in repair the roads of the county of Tazewell, approved February
twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and eivhty -eight, and further to pro-

vide for per manent improvement of the ‘roads in said county, approved
February twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, as amended
and re-enacted by an act approved lebruary twelfth, eighteen hundred
and ninety-four, as amended by an act approved January eleventh, nine-
teen hundred, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 14. In order to provide for the construction of new roads, and for
the permanent improvement of roads already constructed in Tazewell
county.—The board of supervisors of said county are hereby authorized
to borrow for the county such sum or sums of money so that the indebted-
ness of the county therefor shall not exceed at anv one time twelve thou-
sand dollars, and to secure the money borrowed, the board of supervisors
are authorized and empowered to execute and sell the bonds of the said
county of Tazewell, the bonds to be executed under the seal of the board
of supervisors of the said county, signed by the president of the board of
supervisors, and attested by the clerk of the board. Said bonds, however,
shall not run longer than ten years, and shall not bear a greater rate of
interest than six per centum per annum, the interest to be payable semi-
annually, and said bonds shall not be sold below par; but nothing herein
shall prevent or preclude the said board from paying a commission to a
broker or other person to have said bonds placed.

§ 17. For each magisterial district of Tazewell county there is hereby
created and established a board of managers, which said board of man-
avers shall control and manage all money received by their respective dis-
tricts under the provisions of this act. C. A. Black, M. C. Dills, and
George W. Moss are hereby constituted the board of managers for Clear-
fork magisterial district; Joseph S. Gillespie, J. E. Buchanan, and C. H.
Reynolds are hereby constituted the board of managers for Jeffersonville
magisterial district, and Erastus Scott, M. W. Humphreys, and R. H.
Ratclit! are hereby constituted the board of managers for Maiden Spring
magisterial district. The boards of managers hereby created and con-
stituted shall be known and designated, respectively, as the board of
managers for magisterial district; and in case of the death of any
of the above-named persons, or their resignation, removal, or refusal to
serve, or if from any cause a vacancy shall occur, the county court, or the
judge thereof in vacation, shall have power to appoint a successor in the
place and stead of such person.

§ 19. The board of managers for each magisterial district shall elect
one of their number president of the board, and no business shall be
transacted by the board of managers unless at least two members of the
said board be present, and all questions arising before the board of
managers shall be decided by a recorded vote of said board, and.no
action shall be taken by said board of managers except upon a vote of
a majority of the members present at any legal meeting of said board of
managers; said board of managers may be assembled upon reasonable
notice from the president of the board or upon notice from any two
members of the board in writing. All money borrowed under the pro-
visions of this act shall be spent from the first day of May to the fifteenth
day of October of each year.

§ 21. Each member of the district boards of managers shall be allowed
as compensation for the services required to be performed by him under
the provisions of this act two dollars per day for the time he is actually
engaged in the performance of the duties required of him: provided,
that the amount received by him shall not exceed the sum of forty dol-
lars in any one year.

2. all acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby re-
pealed.

3. This act shall be in force from its passage.