Chap. 213.—An ACT for keeping the public roads in order for the
county of Amelia.

Approved March 1, 1884.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
in 80 far as applies to the county of Amelia, section twenty-
one of chapter one hundred and ninety-seven of the Acts of
eighteen hundred and eighty-one and eighty-two, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows: .

§21. All male persons in the county of Amelia shall be
compelled to work two days in each year on some public road
in the district in which he may reside, with the following
exceptions, namely: Ministers of the gospel and persons under
eighteen and above sixty years of age; any person who has
lost a leg or an arm, and any other person who is otherwise
disabled, may be exempted on certificate of the county court
of such disability. No person shall be required to work on
the public roads more than two days in the same year with-
out receiving for each days’ work so done, seventy-five cents,
to be paid out of the county levy. It shall be the duty of
each road surveyor to keep a list of the names of the parties
who are subject by law to work on the public roads in his
district or districts, and to keep a record of each days’ work
done by every party on the road, and to exhibit this record
and list to the county court for its inspection annually at its
March term. And it shall be the duty of said surveyors, in
the event of any person who is subject to work on the public
roads failing to do so, after thirty days from such failure, to
make out a bill of seventy-five cents, payable to the county
of Amelia, tor a fine, for failing to work on the roads as afore-
said, and place the same in the hands of the sheriff, or some
constable, to be collected, who shall proceed to collect said
fine as if it was a capias pro fine issued for a fine due the
commonwealth.

2. That any sheriff, constable or other officer collecting
fines under this act, shall be entitled to the same fees as for
similar services rendered the commonwealth—all of which
are to be paid out of the county levy.

3. That should it be necessary, the board of supervisors of
Amelia are authorized and empowered to levy any reasonable
tax, not to exceed seven and one-half cents upon the one
hundred dollars worth of property, on the real and personal
estate in said county, in order to raise a sufficient amount to
keep the public roads in repair and good order.

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