Chap. 208.—An ACT to amend section 26 of an act entitled an act
to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads
of Botetourt.

Approved May 12, 18387.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section twenty-six of an act entitled an’ act to provide for
working and keeping in repair the public roads of Botetourt,
approved February twenty-six, eighteen hundred and eighty-
six, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 26. On the first day of June and December of each year,
or as soon thereafter as practicable, the board shall meet at
the courthouse and sudit all claims against the road fund of
the county, including the accounts of the commissioners and
oversecrs, which accounts shall be verified by affidavit; and
the said board shall draw their w arrants, signed by the chair-
man and countersigned by the secretary, upon the treasurer
of the county, who shall pay the same out of the treasury.
The treasurer of the county shall furnish the said board, at
their said meetings, a statement of the amount on band to
the credit of the road fund; and no money shall be paid out
of said road fund, except upon the warrant of the board of
road commissioners, and the said board shall not draw war-
rants for a greater amount than is in the treasurer's hands
when the warrants are drawn. <And at their June meetings,
the board shall determine what amount in their judgment
will be necessary to open new roads, work and keep in repair
the highways and county roads for the ensuing year: pro-
vided that wlen the cost of altering or changing a road, or
opening a new road, be in their judgment too burdensome to
be paid in one year, they may, in their discretion, provide for
the same in not exceeding three annual instalments. They
shall certify the amount so ascertained to the board of super-
visors at their annual meeting in July, and the board of
supervisors shall levy a road tax to meet the same, not ex-
ceeding fifteen cents on the one hundred dollars worth of the
real and personal property of the county, including railroads,
to be collected as other county levies, and in the discretion of
the board of supervisors; also a tax on the licenses, as ad-
justed for State taxes, not exceeding twenty per centum of
the State tax on said licenses; and said levies to be made
upon all the persons and property liable to other county
levies, anything in the charter of any incorporated town in
said county to the contrary notwithstanding; and the said
board shall keep an accurate account of all its proceedings in
a well bound book prepared for that purpose.

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