Chap. 595.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 5 of an act authorizing
the judge of the county court of Giles county to appoint a board of county
road commissioners for Giles county, approved March 5d, 1894.

Approved March 1, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sections two
and five of an act authorizing the judge of the county court of Giles
county to appoint a board of county road commissioners for Giles county
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 2. Said board shall have entire management and control of the work-
ing and keeping in repair all the roads of said county, and also the
building of new roads or changes in roads after any road has been estab-
lished or changed, as is now provided by law for the establishment of
new roads or the changing of same. The said opening, changing, work-
ing or keeping in repair of said roads shall be by the appointment of
road overseers by said board as to all or any part of said roads by chain-
gang, labor, or by letting to contract of all or any part of said roads, or
otherwise, as said board shall prescribe; and it shall be the duty of the
several road commissioners of the several magisterial districts to appor-
tion the labor and expenditures upon the several roads in his respective
district, giving to each road its proportionate share of said labor and ex-
penditure, and in the employment of labor upon the roads it shall be
the duty of the said commissioners, so far as practicable, to give prefer-
ence in the employment of labor to those living upon and in the vicinity
of the several roads of his district, who may owe taxes and who may
desire to pay the same by working upon the public roads: provided,
such persons shall perform said labor satisfactorily to said commis-
sioner.

§ 5. The several members of said board shall issue his warrant to the
parties entitled thereto upon the treasurer of Giles county, who shall pay
the same out of said road fund as other warrants are now paid, and each
member of said board shall at each regular meeting thereof make a writ-
ten report of all moneys expended under this act in his district, by
whom expended, for what purpose, and the amounts paid, and to whom
paid. Said reports shall be audited by said board and upon confirma-
tion thereof shall be certified to the board of supervisors of Giles county.

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