CHAP. 878.—An ACT to provide for working and keeping in order
and repalr the roads, highways, bridges, &c., of Amherst county,
rginia.

Approved February 28, 1890.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That on and after the first day of July, eighteen hundred
and ninety, it shall be lawful for Amherst county to work
and keep in repair its highways, roads, bridges, and so
forth, as follows:

2. The county court shall, at the April term, eighteen
hundred and ninety, appoint three commissioners for
each magisterial district of said county, whose duty it
shall be to divide all of the public roads in their respec-
tive districts into sections not to exceed seven mileg in
length, said sections to be numbered. Said commissioners
shall also apportion the hands to each section, furnishing a
list of same in their report to the court at the May or
June term following their appointment. And the said
commissioners shall recommend at the same time, in writ-
ing, to the judge of the county court a suitable person to
be appointed surveyor of each section, whose term of office
shall be for two years, and said surveyor, after being duly
notified of his appointment, shall be liable to presentment
by the grand jury for any dereliction of duty as such sur-
veyor. The commissioners referred to in this section
shall receive for their services one dollar and fifty cents
for each day actually engaged as such commissioner.

3. The surveyor shall receive two dollars per diem for
each day actually employed in working his section of road;
but he shall receive nothing for notifying the hands to
work on said road. No surveyor shall be paid for more
than five days in one year for working his section of road
unless by special permission of the supervisor of his dis-
trict.

4. All males over the age of sixteen years and under
sixty shall be required to work two days in each year on
the public roads in the county, except those who are
exempt under the general road law of the state. Any per-
son refusing to work on the roads after being duly noti-
fied, the surveyor shall, within ten days after such refusal,
make out a ticket against said delinquent for seventv-five
cents for each day he fails to work, and place the same in
the hands of the constable of his district, who is hereby
required to receive the same for collection, and said sur-
veyor shall take a receipt of the officer for the said
ticket. The officer having the collection of said fines shall
distrain therefor in the same manner as for taxes and
county levies. Such officer shall have an additional fee
of twenty-five cents in all cases where the money shall
have been collected by him, to be paid hy the delinquent.
He shall pay over to the surveyor all such fines as soon as
collected or return the ticket to the surveyor as insolvent in
case the fine cannot be collected. If the officer shal] fail to
pay over the fines to the surveyor after collection, then he
and his sureties on his official bond shal] be liable for the
same. The surveyor shall use such fines in hiring hands,
at a price not to exceed seventy-five cents per day, to work
on the road on which he is surveyor, and shall account
for same in his quarterly report to the board of super-
visors.

5. The board of supervisors, in their annual levy shall
make such provision as may be necessary for road pur-
poses, which shall not exceed ten cents on the one hun-
dred dollars’ worth of property in any magisterial district.
After two days’ labor referred to in section four of this
act shall have been exhausted, the surveyor of each road
shall, with the approval of the supervisor of hix district,
hire hands, if necessary, to work on said roads at a price
not to exceed seventy-five cents per day for each hand,
the surveyor to furnish the number and the names of the
hands so employed, and the amount due each to the board
of supervisors every three months after this law goes into
effect; and if said report is approved by the board of
supervisors, then they shall issue their warrant for the
same, which shall be paid by the treasurer if there is
money in his hands for that purpose. No surveyor under
this section shall receive full pay for a day’s work if he
has less than five hands under his charge.

6. The board of supervisors, at their July meeting, or
sooner, if necessary, shall regulate the prices to be paid
for teams, wagona, plows, and so forth. They shall also
purchase the necessary tools out of the road fuud of their
several districts for working the same. Each surveyor
shall be responsible to the supervisors for al] tools placed
in his hands, and in case of removal or resignation shal]
turn the same over to his successor.

7. New roads shall be established and made in the man-
ner prescribed by existing general road law.

8. All laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

9. This act shall be in force from its passage.
CHAP 879.—An ACT to incorporate the Richmond and Manches-
ter bridge company, and to authorize the cities of Richmond and
Manchester, or either of them, to purchase Mryo’s bridge and
any necessary appurtenances.

Approved February 28, 1890.

Whereas it is desirable that the cities of Richmond and
Manchester, or either of them, should be permitted to ac-
quire the bridge known as Mayo’s bridge, connecting the
two cities, and such appurtenances as may be necessary,
and to own and control the same upon such terms as may
be deemed advisable, when it appears to the councils of
the said cities, or either of them, that the acquisition of
the same would be advantageous; and whereas, it is proper
if the said purchase be made that the control and manage-
ment of said bridge and any appurtenances should be
placed in the hands of a duly constituted body, to repre-
sent the cities or city purchasing the same, and as a body
corporate and politic have their powers and duties defi-
nitely set forth:

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That R. W. Powers, Louis H. Blair, Henry Bodeker, Joseph
W. Carter, George D. Thaxton, of Richmond, Virginia,
and H.C. Beattie, H. Fitzgerald, A. C. Jones, R. C. Broad-
dus, and J. L. Robertson, of the city of Manchester, or
their successors, or those of that city which may purchase
the said bridge, if the bridge is purchased by one city
only, are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate
under the name and style of the Richmond and Manches-
ter bridge company, and shall have a common seal and
have authority to sue and be sued.

2. Said corporators shall be designated as the board of
managers of the said company, and when duly requested
by the councils of said cities, if both cities shall purchase,
and if only one city purchase, then, when duly requested
by the council of that city, shall organize and proceed to
elect a president, vice-president, secretary and treasurer,
toll-keeper or keepers, and such other officers as they may
deem necessary, and enact suitable by-laws for the pur-
pose of their organization.

3. The said board of managers, when duly authorized
by the council or councils of said city or cities, are hereby
authorized to negotiate for the purchase of the bridge
known as Mayo’s bridge, and such appurtenances as may
be necessary, and report to the council or councils of said
city or cities purchasing for confirmation of their action
in the premises.

4. Upon confirmation of the purchase of the property
to be conveyed to the city or cities buying, the said board
of managers are authorized and empowered to complete the
terms of said purchase, and if the purchase be made jointly
by the two cities the said board of managers and their
successors are to hold the same as the joint property of the
two cities, and if purchased by either city alone the mem-
bers of the board of managers and their successors of such
city shall be duly constituted and empowered as a board
of managers to control said property as before mentioned ;
and said board of managers shall have the right and power
when requested so to do by the cities or city owning the
same, to sell, encumber, repair or reconstruct said bridge
and make such disposition thereof as the city or cities
owning the same may see fit, said city or cities uniting in
the deed,‘ conveyance or mortgage.

5. The said cities or city may pay said purchase in part,
whole, in cash, or they or either of them may issue their
bonds for the same, or they may direct the board of mana-
gers of the said property to issue bonds and secure the
same by mortgage or trust deed, and said city or cities
purchasing the same may guarantee by proper resolution
the payment of said obligation.

6. The board of managers may if directed by the city or
cities owning the same provide for charging tolls, and
rates for said tolls not to exceed the rate now charged over
said bridge, or upon direction from the cities or city own-
ing the same, may exempt from payment of toll persons
or corporations using the same, or may discontinue all
tolls. And when said bridge has been purchased under
this act, the said board of managers are hereby fully au-
thorized and empowered to grant to the Manchester rail-
way and improvement company any consent necessary
under the terms of its charter for laying its tracks and
operating its railway over said bridge and its approaches.

7. The said board of managers shall have full power to
regulate by proper rules for the passage over said bridge,
and the speed at which persons, animals, teams or cars may
pass over the said bridge, and any violation of said rules
shall be punishable as such cities or city may enact by
special ordinance, and if any person or corporation shall
refuse to pay toll when demanded, he shall forfeit a fine
of five dollars and the toll due and the costs, which shall be
recoverable before the police court of Richmond.

8. The board of managers of the said company shall be
elected biennially by the cities or city owning the said
bridge at the July meeting of the councils of said city or
cities, tohold office fortwo years. The said board of mana-
gers may supply any vacancy in their number in the in-
terim, and hold office until their successors shall qualify,
and a majority of said board shall constitute a quorum. The
within named corporators (or those representing the city

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purchasing the said property ) or their successors, are hereby
constituted the board of managers until such election shall
be duly held.

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