Chap. 845.—An ACT to provide for the working and repairing of public roads
in Greenesville county. ‘

Approved March 6, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
board of supervisors of Greenesville county, subject to the approval of
the county court of said county shall, from time to time, divide the
said county into road districts, each containing one or more magisterial
districts, and subject to the approval of said court, shall appoint at their
annual meeting on the fourth Monday in July in each year, or as soon
thereafter as is practicable, a road surveyor for each said road dis-
trict, to hold office not to exceed one year, who shall be a resident
and voter of said district, and whose duty it shall be to superintend and
direct the repairs and keeping in order of all roads and bridges within
his said district, in such manner and under such regulations as may
be prescribed by the board of supervisors of his county.

2. Said supervisors shall qualify at the first term of the county court
after his appointment, and each of them shall enter into and acknowl-
edge a bond before the said court, with surety to be approved by said
court, in a penalty of five hundred dollars, and failure to qualify on
or before the second term of the county court of said county after
his appointment shall vacate his office. Such bond shall be pavable to
the board of supervisors of the county for which he is appointed, and
with condition fot the faithful discharge of his duty. A vacancy in the
office of said road surveyor shall be filled as provided for his appoint-
ment in section one of this act. A recovery on his bond shall be for
the benefit of his road district.
3. The said board of supervisors shall determine at least thirty day:
before the appointment of said surveyor the amount of compensatio!
he shall receive during his said term, which shall not be increased 0.
diminished during said term.

4. The said board shall have power to remove said surveyor at thei
pleasure. |

5. Every road survevor shall have power to appoint a deputy roac
surveyor and pay said deputy out of his own compensation.

6. The said road surveyor shall make a report in writing every mont}
to the said board of supervisors of such matters and things relative
to the roads in his district as the said board may require.

7. When said report has been made and the board of supervisors are
satisfied that the said surveyor has fully performed his duty as such
then, and not till then, they shall issue the warrant to him for hi:

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P 8. Every surveyor shall be liable to prosecution for any neglect ot
duty or malfeasance in office, and upon conviction, in each case shall
be fined not less than five and not more than fifty dollars, and the
fines before provided for shall be used on the roads in the district
wherein the surveyor fined resides.

9. The board of supervisors of said county shall, from time to time,
prescribe and note on the records of their proceedings such plans, re-
strictions, and directions as they shall deem best for the repairing,
working, and keeping in order the roads in the said road districts in
said county, including any special plans, specifications, restrictions,
or directions which they may prescribe for particular roads or bridges,
and the said board shall have power to adopt different plans for work-
ing and repairing the roads in the different districts in said county.

10. The said surveyors shall render to said board along with the
report provided for in section six of this act a statement of all the labor
emploved by him, together with the price agreed to be paid per day
or month, and also of any other expense incurred by him as such sur-
veyor. Said statement shall be sworn to, and when said statement shall
have been approved by said board, then, and not before, shall issue
warrants for the several amounts shown to be due by said statement.

11. It shall be lawful for said board to hire or buy such teams, tools,
or implements as it may deem necessary to work and keep in repair the
roads of said county out of funds belonging to said county.

12. Said survevor shall have charge of all teams, tools, and imple-
ments belonging to said county and used on the work under his charge
in their road districts, and shall be responsible for their condition, and
he shall perform such other duties as may be assigned to him from time
to time by his board of supervisors.

13. It shall be the duty of each supervisor of his district in the
months of February and August to ride over the roads of his district
(that is his magisterial district), and at the next meeting thereafter make
a report in writing of the condition of the roads in his said district, and
for the services required of said supervisor by this’ section each of
them shall receive as their compensation the sum of two dollars per
day, not to exceed four dollars per day.

14. Upon the complaint in writing of any three citizens of any road
district in the said county to any supervisor thereof that any portion
of the road in said district is in a bad condition, it shall be the duty of
the supervisor of said district to notify the road surveyor of said district
of such condition, and it shall be the duty of said road surveyor to re-
pair said portion of said road as soon thereafter as is practicable.

15. The said board shall annually levy along with the county levy
a tax on all property, real and personal, assessed for taxation in the
said county aforesaid, for the working, repairing, and keeping in order
of the public roads and bridges under this act, which tax shall not exceed
twenty cents on the one hundred dollars of such property.

1%. The provisions of chapter forty-three of the code of Virginia,
of the edition of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, in reference to
county roads, causeways and bridges, shall apply to and be in force
in said counties so far as not inconsistent with this act, and so far as
the matters therein contained shall not have been provided for in this
act, except that sections numbered from nine hundred and sixty-three
to nine hundred and eighty-three, inclusive, of said chapter shall not
have effect or*be in force in said county where inconsistent with this
act. All acts in conflict with this act shall be repealed.

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