Chap. 105.—An ACT to amend and re-enact the 12th section of an
act approved Apiil 4th, 1877, entitled an act to provide for the work-
ing of roads and repairing bridges in the county of Rappahannock.

Approved April 2, 1879.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section twelve of an act approved April fourth, eighteen bun-
dred and seventy-seven, entitled an act to provide for the work-
ing of roads and repairing bridges in the county of Rappa-
hannock, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 12. The board of road commissioners for each magisterial
district, atits annual meeting in July, shall levy a tax upon the
property, real and personal, of the district, assessed for state
revenue, sufficient, with the labor contributed under the nine-
teenth section of this act, to pay the expenses of keeping all
the public roads and bridges in the district in good repair and
in good travelling order, and for all other purposes provided
for in this act: provided that the assessment on property shall
not be more in any one year than seven and one-half cents on
the hundred dollars. The tax levied on each precinct shall, as
far as practicable, be expended therein. Land lying partly in
one district or precinct and partly in another, shall be deemed
to be in the district or precinct in which the greater part there-
of lies. Said board may also at its said annual or any other
regular meeting, should they deem it advisable, proceed to lay
off the roads of their respective districts, or any part of them,
into sections, and allot hands to work on said sections, and after
due notice let out said sections, or any of them, together with
the labor that has been allotted thereto, to contract to the lowest
responsible bidder. Any contractor under this section shall
have the same power to control such labor, or collect fines for
failing to work on said: sections, as is given to overseers of
roads under this act. The contract prices for keeping said
sections in order shall be paid out of the magisterial district
funds. Said board may take from said contractor bond, with
good security, conditioned for the faithful performance of his
contract; and for any breach thereof, said board shall have all
remedies that are now given by law on bonds of like character.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.