Chap. 266.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections one and four of
an act approved February 25th, 1878, as amended by an act approved
January 10, 1879, to regulate the working of public roads in the
counties of Prince William, Montgomery, Chesterfield and Lanceas-
ter.

Approved March 9, 1880.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That sections one
and four of an act approved January tenth, eighteen hundred
and seventy-nine, entitled an ‘act to amend and re-enact an act
to regulate the working of the public roads in the counties of
Prince William, Montgomery, Chesterfield and Lancaster, ap-
proved February twenty-five, eighteen hundred and seventy-
eight, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 1. From and after July first, eighteen hundred and seventy-
eight, the board of supervisors of Prince William, Chesterfield:
and Lancaster counties shall take charge of and have worked
and kept in repair all public roads heretofore or hereafter es-
tablished within the limits of said counties, except such unim-
portant roads as said beards, in their respective counties, may
ascertain and determine can be sufficiently maintained under
the provisions of the general law. For the purposes of this act
the board of each county is hereby authorized and empowered
to levy a road tax, not exceeding ten cents in any one year,
upon the one hundred dollars of assessed taxable values in its
said county, and to adopt such regulations, not in contraven-
tion of the laws and constitution of this state, as may be neces-
sary or proper to secure the proper and efficient working of the
roads in said county.

§ 4. All able-bodied citizens of each road district not exempt
under the general road law of this state shall be and are re-
quired to do two days’ work in each year to help keep in repair
the roads in such road district ; which labor shall be taken into
consideration in making the contracts aforesaid ; and each con-
tractor shall have all the rights and remedies for requiring all
persons, not exempt under the present general road law of this
state, to labor on the roads in the road districts in which they
reside two days in each year, and for enforcing and collecting
the fines for failing to work on the roads, when summoned to
do so, which is conferred on the surveyors of roads by said
general road law; and shall not be liable for cost in any pro-
ceeding before a justice for the recovery of the same, unless
such fine is decided by the justice not to be due.