Chap. 461.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2, chapter 196,
Acts 1883-4, entitled an act to provide for working the roads, re-
iring brid , and opening new roads in the counties of Frederick,

‘ke, Warren, and Augusta.

Approved March 5, 1888.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section second of chapter one hundred and ninety-six, Acts of
Assembly eighteen hundred and eighty-three—eighty-four, en-
titled an act to provide for the working of the roads, repair-
ing bridges, and opening new roads in the counties of Fred-
erick, Clarke, Warren, and Augusta, be amended and re-en-
acted so as to read as follows:

§ 2. For each road district in the county of Frederick, there
shall be created and established a board, consisting of the
supervisor, a commissioner of roads, and one director for
each district, which board shall have control of the roads and
bridges within its limits, and all taxes levied for road pur-
poses and for building and repairing bridges shall be expended
in each road district except as hereinafter provided. The
director constituting a member of the board shall be annually |
chosen and designated by the county court at the April term |
of said court; he shall be a resident of the road district for
which he is chosen, and the commissioner of the roads shall |
be elected by the qualified voters of the several road districts
as hereinafter provided. The board hereby created and con-
stituted, is declared to be a body politic and corporate, and
shall be known and designated as the board of commissioners
of roads for road district. The road districts named |
in this act shall be of the same extent and limits as the magis-

terial districts as now constituted, and the qualified voters
herein referred to, shall be taken to mean such persons as may
be the qualified voters of each magisterial district. The said
director hereinbefore provided for, shall hold his office until
his successor qualifies, and the first appointment shall be made
at me April term of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-
eight.
: °. This act shall apply to the counties of Clarke, Warren,
and Augusta whenever a majority of the board of supervisors
of each of said counties shall, at a general or special meeting
thereof, adopt the act for each county.
3. This act shall be in force from its passage.