Chap. 187.—An ACT to provide for working and keeping in order the
roads in the county of Louisa.

Approved March 20, 1877.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the board
of sapervisors of Louisa county shall divide into precincts all
the county roads not kept in order under contract, and as
often as they please, may appoint a surveyor for each pre-
tinct, Who shall hold his office until another be appvinted in
his stead. The clerk of the said board shall, upon such ap-
pointment, issue a writ to the sheriff, commanding him to
vive information thereof to the person so appointed, which
writ the sheriff shall execute and return to the board at its
uext meeting. Any clerk or sheriff failing in such duty, shall
forfeit therefor five dollars: provided that whenever a sur-
veyor so appointed shall remove from the precinct where ap-
peinted, his office of surveyor shall be vacated.

2. Every such surveyor shall superintend the roads in his
precinct. Heshall cause thesame to be kept cleared, smoothed
of rocks and other obstructions, of necessary width, well-
drained, and otherwise in good order, and secure from the
falling of dead timber therein. He shall, under instructions
from the board of supervisors, cause to be placed and kept at
important forks or crossings of his precinct, a sign-board, pro-
perly lettered; and across every stream, where it is neces-
sary and practicable, a sufficient bridge, bench, or log, for the
accommodation of foot passengers. When any more impor-
tant bridge or causeway is necessary, and it is practicable for
him to have it made, he shall cause it to be made twelve feet
broad, at the least, and safe and convenient. LHvery bridge
or causeway in his precinct, shall be kept by him in as good
order as the means in his power will permit.

3. The board of supervisors of said county, at any meeting
of said board, upon the motion of any road surveyor in any
magisterial district therein, or whenever in the opinion of
the board thereof a necessity therefor exists, shall aiter or
rearrange any precinct or precincts therein, and allot the
hands to work on the same, and a report of their action in
the premises shall be filed in the clerk’s office for exceptions ;
and at the next term of the count¥ court, any person who
thinks himself aggrieved thereby, may appear, and for good
cause shown, have the same altered or amended by the court ;
otherwise it shall stand confirmed.

4. Every person required to work on the public roads, shally
either in person or by a sufficient substitute, when notified
by the proper surveyor, attend with proper tools, and work
the road on such days as the surveyor may direct. Tor every
day on which there may be a failure, seventy-five cents shall
be paid to the surveyor within thirty days thereafter by the
Person in default, if a person of full age, or, if he be an infant,
by his guardian or parent. If the money be not paid to the
surveyor within the time above specified, he shall make out
a ticket against such delinquent party for the amount of said
fine, with an addition of ten per centum for costs; which
ticket shall be put by him in the hands of the constable of
his district, or the sheriff of the county for collection: pro-
vided however, that such delinquent may, after notice to such
surveyor, apply to the supervisor of his district, and, for good
cause shown, have said fine rcleased or remitted. The offi-
cer having charge of the collection of such fines, may dis-
drain therefor in the same manner as for taxes and county
levies. He shall account to the surveyor for all fines col-
lected by him, dividing the costs collected equally with the
surveyor, and shall return to the clerk of board of supervi-
sors, annually, at each regular annual meeting of the same,
a list of all fines so collected, with the names of the surveyors
to whom the same have been paid. Said clerk shall label
and file the same in his office.

5. If the surveyor of any road precinct is unable, with the
means and labor at his disposal, to keep in good order his
road precinct, he may apply to the board of supervisors, who
may authorize him to hire as many laborers as will suffice to
keep his precinct in good order, or to repair great damages
casually occurring, or open a new road: provided, that where
the cost of either exceeds the sum of fifty dollars, it shall be
necessary for the court to ratify the action of the board. The
said board may also authorize the surveyor to purchase such
material, tools or implements, as may be necessary to facili-
tate or economize the work in his precinct. The surveyor
shall return to the board of snpervisors a particular account,
on oath, of the expense so incurred, and for the hire of teams,
ploughs, and so forth; also, the expense of placing and keep-
ing sign-boards, as before mentioned; and they shall allow
the same, or so much thereof as may be justly due, to be paid
out of the county fund.

6. Every road surveyor, in addition to what is required of
him in the fifth section, shall report to the board of supervi-
sors, at their regular annual meeting, an exact account, veri-
fied on oath, of all moneys received by him, by virtue’of his
office, during the past year. Said acvount shall specify the
amount expended by him, and the manner in which the same
has beon expended, together with the amount, if any, remain-
ing in his hands unexpended. He shall apply any balance so
remaining to his road precinct, in such manner as said board
minay direct, or turn over the same to his successor in office,
who sball in like manner account therefor in the next annual
report. It shall be the further duty of said surveyor to em-
brace in his repprt the number of days’ labor performed by
bim and his hands on bis road preciuct during the past year;
what alterations, improvements or repairs he may thiok
should be made during the ensuing year, the probable cost
of the same, and any other matters or suggestions in rela-
tion to his road precinct which be may deein pertinent, or
which may be required of bim by said board. It shall be
the duty of the clerk of said board, after said report has
been examined by the board, to label and file the same in
his office.

7. Every surveyor of a road shall be entitled to compen-
sation, at the discretion of the board of supervisors, to be by
them allowed in the county levy, not exceeding one dollar
per day for the time actually employed in summoning hands
to work on the road: provided, that where the work is done
on two or more consecutive days, there may be an allowance
for summoning for each day. It shall be the duty of each
surveyor to summon all the hands belonging to his road pre-
cinct at least twice in each year, and to work on said road
two whole days in each year. If he fail to do so, orif in
case of the bad condition of any part of his road, or of any
bridge thereon, he shall fail, when notified in writing by the
supervisor of his district, within ten days, to repair the same,
he shall, in either case, without an excuse deemed reasonable
by the board of supervisors, be fined by said board a sum not
less than five dollars; said fine, when collected, to be ex-
pended on his road precinct.

8. Be it further enacted, That all the provisions of an act
passed March twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five,
entitled an act tor working and keeping in order the roads of
the commonwealth, except in so far as the same are modified
and changed by the foregoing, shall be applicable to the county
of Louisa.

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