Chap. 545.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 5 of chapter 656 of the
acts of 1895-’96 entitled an act providing for the working, opening and keeping
in repair the roads in the counties of Brunswick, Nottoway and Amelia, and
for the building and keeping in repair the bridges of said counties, approved
March 3, 1896.

Approved February 28, 1598.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sections
one and five of chapter six hundred and fifty-six of the acts of eighteen
hundred and ninety-five and eighteen hundred and ninety-six, approved
March three, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, be amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:

§ 1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That it shall
he the duty of the board of supervisors of the counties of Brunswick,
Nottoway and Amelia, at their annual meeting in July of each year, to
levy a tax not exceeding twenty cents on the one hundred dollars’ value
on the property of their respective counties, real and personal, which tax
shall be known as the road tax, and said tax in each magisterial district
of the counties of Brunswick and Nottoway shall be kept separate, and
the amount received from each district shall be expended in said district
in the manner hereinafter provided; but in the county of Amelia the said
tax shall be kept as a county fund and expended in such portions of said
county as the board of supervisora may think proper.
§ 5. Said superintendent shall have charge of and‘ provide for all
mules, horses, oxen, implements, tools or machines which may be placed
in his charge by the board of supervisors. And he may be authorized
by said board to hire teams for carrying on the work at any time at such
rates per day as said board may from time to time determine. He shall
be authorized by the board, and it shall be his duty, to employ all
necessary labor by the day, week or month, as the board may direct, at
a compensation to be fixed by said board from time to time. And to
meet such expenses the board may place in the hands of the said super-
intendent sums of money not to exceed four hundred dollars for any
one month; but no greater sum shall be expended, except in the county of
Amelia, in any magisterial district than the sum levied and collected in
said district as aforesaid.

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