Chap. 237.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for
working and keeping in repair the roads and bridges of Russell county, and to
authorize the board of supervisors to borrow money for said purpose, approved
February 21, 1900, as amended by an act approved March 28, 1903.

Approved May 14, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act en-
titled an act to provide for working and keeping in repair the roads and
bridges of Russell county, and to authorize the board of supervisors to
borrow money for said purpose, approved February twenty-first, nineteen
hundred, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March twenty-
eighth, nineteen hundred and three, be amended and re-enacted so as to
read as follows:

2. The board of supervisors for Russell county are hereby authorized to
borrow for the county the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars,
and to secure the money so borrowed said board of supervisors is au-
thorized and empowered to make, execute, and sell the bonds of Russell
county, to be executed under the seal of the board of supervisors of said
county, signed by the chairman of said board, and attested by its clerk.
Said bonds so issued shall be in denomination of one thousand dollars
each, and bear interest at the rate of five per centum per annum; the in-
terest on all of said bonds to be paid annually. Said bonds to run from
one to thirty years, as follows: Five thousand dollars of said bonds to ma-
ture at the end of the first year after same are issued, and five thousand
dollars of the same to mature each year thereafter until all of said bonds
mature. And to provide a fund with which to pay the annual interest on
said bonds, and to pay the amount of bonds that mature each year, the
said board of supervisors are hereby authorized to increase the county road
levy to sixty cents on the one hundred dollars of assessable personal prop-
erty and land of the county for this purpose.

Said board of supervisors shall use said one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars for the purpose of constructing, building, grading, and macada-
mizing the main and most important public roads in said county at such
points or places as said roads need macadamizing, and do said work as
rapidly as practicable consistent with efficient service and economy; and
to enable said board of supervisors to do this work with dispatch and effi-
ciency, they are empowered to let the macadamizing and repairing of said
roads to contract by public or private bids as will obtain the cheapest and
best work, taking from the contractors who contract and agree to do said
work bonds, with good and approved security, for such amount as the
board of supervisors may deem sufficient to secure the faithful per-
formance of said contract, conditioned that the said work shall be done
well, and in a workman-like manner, and according to plans and specifica-
tions for such work as hereinafter provided, and within the time pre-
scribed by said contract.

3. Said board of supervisors, in order to build and construct said roads
in a workman-like manner, shall employ and pay out of said fund bor-
rowed, at a salary of not more than one hundred dollars per month while
engaged in said work, a practical engineer for the county of Russell, whose
duty it shall be to draw up, under the direction and with the aid of said
board of supervisors, plans and specifications for the construction and
building of said macadamized roads, as well as the unmacadamized parts
thereof, in said county, whose duty it shall be to supervise, oversee, in-
spect, and, with the said board, receive said roads when completed by the
contractors according to their contracts, plans, and specifications for
building the same, said engineer to devote his entire time, under the
direction of the board, to the construction of the said roads ; said engineer
to be the employee of the board for the proper management of the con-
struction of said roads, to work under their direction, to make report as
often as they may require of the work that is being one, and may be re-
moved by the board at any time, on ten days’ notice, for inefficiency, want
of care to the work in hand, failure to do his full duty, or other just
cause.

The said board of supervisors may, out of said fund, be paid for actual
services rendered by them under this act at the same rate per diem that
they now receive as members of said board, not to exceed, in addition to
what they now receive by law, the sum of twenty dollars per year.

4. Said fund shall be expended by the board of supervisors in the order
hereinafter described, to-wit:

First. The Fincastle road, from Scott county to Tazewell county line;
the same to be macadamized, except such portions thereof as can be put
permanently in first-class condition on the present road-bed without being
macadamized, all of which is left to the sound discretion of the board of
supervisors and engineer.

Second. The road from Elk Garden, at H. S. Stuart’s, by way of Elk
Garden church, and old Rosedale to the Norfolk and Western depot at
Honaker, and the road from Lebanon, by way of Cleveland to Dumps
creek, and the road from old courthouse to Castlewood depot, and the
road from Lebanon by way of Hansonville to the foot of the mountain at
Moccaksin gap, and the road from Swords creek to M. C. Clark’s, and
the road from J. T. Candler’s to Caterton; and the road from S. F.
Combs’, by way of Sam Johnson’s to Finney’s siding, all of which to be
graded, macadamized, and built at the same time.

The residue of said fund shall be expended in a judicious manner by
the board of supervisors and engineer, so as to put the following roads in
the best condition possible by macadamizing where absolutely necessary,
to-wit: The road from James Counts’ to Castlewood depot; from Han-
sonville to the old courthouse, and from Hawkins’ mills down Moccaksin
creek to the Scott county line, and from Honaker to B. F. Fuller’s house,
and from the forks of the road east of George W. House’s to Elk Garden,
and from Bickley’s mills through Castlewood to the Scott county line, all
of which shall be built at the same time in so far as it is practical to do so.

5. Said roads, when macadamized, shall be fourteen feet in width, and
no road shall be macadamized that is more than four degrees in grade,
and shall be built out of the creek and water courses, except where it is
absolutely necessary to cross or go along same; and no macadamizing shall
be done in or along creeks or water courses where the same is liable to be
washed out. All the roads aforesaid shall not exceed four degrees, and
shall be at least fourteen feet wide.

6. All acts and parts of acts and laws in conflict with this act as to spe-
cial road laws applicable to the county of Russell are hereby repealed.

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