Chap. 548.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 15, 18, 82 and 87 of an
act entitled an act to amend the special road laws in the counties of Scott
and Lee, and to provide for the working of roads in the counties of Scott,
Lee and Wise, approved March 1, 1892.

Approved March 2, 1894.

. 1, Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
titled an act to amend the special road laws in the counties of Scott
and Lee, and to provide for the working of roads in the counties of
Scott, Lee and Wise, approved March first, eighteen hundred and
ninety-two, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 2. There shall be a commissioner of roads within each district
in each of said counties, who shall be appointed by the judge of the
county court of the said counties of Scott, Lee and Wise, and he and
two other persons within the district, to be also appointed by the
court at the same time, shall constitute a board styled the road
board of said district, except that in the county of Lee the commis-
sioner of roads shall himself alone constitute the road board.

§ 15. Each overseer shall keep a record of the work done by each
of his hands, and when such work was done, and when any hand
fails to do the work which he should have done, he shall report the
fact and the number of days of his failure. He shall also keep a
record of the work of any hand entitled to pay under the provisions
of this act, also an account of the work of hired teams, and any
other expenses incurred, and return such report to the commissioner
of roads in his district, verified by affidavit, by the first day of May,
except in the county of Lee, which shall be the first day of Decem-
ber in each year, after the work is done; and such report shall be
prima facie evidence of the matters therein stated.

§ 18. When it becomes necessary for overseers on sections to have
a team, wagon, plow or other implements to work on the roads, the
board of the district may authorize such overseer to hire the same
on the best terms he can, so that for a driver and yoke of oxen and
wagon he shall not pay more than two dollars per day, and for a
team of horses or mules and wagon with driver, he shall not pay
more than two dollars and fifty cents a day, and for any hired hand,
under section eleven, eighty cents per day of ten hours each: pro-
vided that in the county of Lee the hire for a driver and yoke of
oxen and wagon shall not be more than two dollars and fifty cents
per day. An account of such services shall be made by the person
to whom it is due, verified on oath, and when approved by the board
of the district the same shall be allowed as other expenses.

§ 32. The commissioner of each district shall make an estimate of
the amount which will be required in his district to defray the road
expenses for the coming year, and report the same to the supervisors
yearly, at the time of laying the levy, and if the amount seems rea-
sonable to the supervisors they shall lay a levy therefor on the dis-
trict, but no levy for road purposes shall exceed twenty cents on one
hundred dollars of the assessed value of lands and property: pro-
vided that in the county of Lee, where a levy is made on the real
estate and personal property of any citizen, he may pay his road tax
or levy by bringing his teams, tools and hands, and work out the
amount of his tax or levy under the supervision and instruction of
the overseer in his district.

§ 37. Each commissioner of the several road boards shall be en-
titled to receive a compensation for his services of one dollar per
day: provided that no one shall receive more than twenty dollars in
any_one year; and each overseer of sections shall receive seventy-
five cents for each day he superintends ‘such hands as may be hired
under this act: provided that he be not allowed more than five dol-
lars in any one year: provided that in the county of Lee each over-
seer of sections shall receive one dollar for each day he superintends
hands, whether hired or not: and provided, further, that in the
county of Lee each overseer of sections shall not be allowed more
than eight dollars in any one year.
3. This act shall be in force from its passage.