Chap. 44.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled
an act to provide for working and keeping the public roads in order
in Clarke county, approved February 17, 1877.

Approved November 18, 1884.
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1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section four of an act entitled an act to provide for working
and keeping the public roads in order in Clarke county, ap-
proved February seventeen, eighteen, hundred and seventy-
seven, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§4. There shall be regular meetings of the district board
on the first and fourth Mondays in October of each year. At
the meeting on the first Monday in October, the several over-
seers of roads shall make their reports and statements of
accounts. The board shall proceed to audit and settle the
same, and if not completed in one day, may adjourn from
time to time until all accounts are audited; said accounts,
when allowed by said district board, shall be entered up in a
book kept for that purpose by the clerk of said board in the
name of each party, amount due and properly numbered;
and for the settlement of the same, warrants shall be drawn,
number, name and amount as above mentioned, plainly set
out therein, upon the county treasurer, signed by the said
clerk and countersigned by the chairman of said board. At
the meeting on the fourth Monday in October, the said board
shall appoint the overseers of roads for the sub-districts
within their district for the ensuing year; shall also appoint
a clerk, each of whom shall qualify as aforesaid. They shall
also, at this or any special meeting called for the purpose,
make the estimate of the amount of tax necessary to be levied
upon all property, real and personal, of the magisterial dis-
trict assessed for the state revenue to be made from the last
returns of the commissioners of revenue, to pay the expenses
of keeping all the public roads within their district in good
repair, and of such width and condition as may be required
by law, not to exceed fifteen cents on the one hundred dollars
valuation of taxable property; which estimate they shall
require the clerk of said board to lay before the county board
of supervisors on the first Wednesday in November, or at
any meeting of said board of supervisors thereafter. The
said district board may also at their meeting on the fourth
Monday in October, transact any unfinished business from
former boards or meetings, and such other business re-
lating to public roads as they may deem expedient, not in-
consistent with this act. Thesaid boards shall have power to
hold special meetings upon the call, in writing, of any member
thereof, at which special meetings they shall have power to
transact any business that they are authorized to transact at
a regular meeting.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.