CHAP. 382.—An ACT to provide for working the public roads in
Northumberland and Westmoreland counties.

Approved February 25, 1892.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,

That the board of supervisors of the counties of Northum-
berland and Westmoreland be, and are hereby, empowered
at any full meeting of their respective boards to be held
hereafter, to take into consideration the question of letting
out to contract or otherwise the working of the public
roads in each of said counties. Should a majority of
either or all of said boards be in favor of letting out said
roads to be worked by contract, or otherwise, the board or
boards so determining shall perfect a scheme for that pur-
pose, which they shal] submit to the voters of their respec-
tive counties, to be voted on, on Tuesday after fourth Mon-
day in May next after the passage of this act. Said elec-
tion to be conducted according to the provisionsof sections
twelve hundred and forty-three, twelve hundred and for-
ty-four, and twelve hundred and forty-five of the code of
Virginia, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, not incon-
sistent with this act or in contravention of any funda-
mental law of the land. The tickets cast in favor of the
scheme shall have written or printed upon them “ For the
road scheme”; and those cast against shal] have written
or printed upon them “Against the road scheme.” Should
the scheme submitted receive three-fifths of all the votes
cast in either county, it shall become the road law of that
county, to take effect on the first day of July next succeed-
ing the election.

2. In the meantime, and until such scheme shall have
been adopted, the road law under which said counties are
now being worked, shall continue to be in force.

3. Should the voters of any county reject the scheme
proposed, the said board of that county may thereafter
prepare another scheme, or, if it deems best, may resubmit
the same scheme to be again voted upon, until that or
some other scheme shall have been adopted; provided,
however, that the same shall be submitted not later than
twelve months after any election under this act.

4, The judges of election shall, immediately after clos-
ing the polls, count the ballots cast for and against the
scheme respectively, and shall declare the result. One of
their number, on the day following the election, sha!l
carry a sealed abstract of the vote, with the result as de-
clared by them, and the ballots in a sealed package, to
the clerk of the county court in his office. The abstract
shall be delivered sealed by the said clerk to the judge of
the county court within five days, who shall forthwith
open the same and have it spread upon the county court
order book. If the votes are cast according to the pro-
visions of this act in favor of the road scheme, a copy of
this entry shall be certified to the board of supervisors,
who shall forthwith carry out the wishes of the people as
expressed at said election.

5. No scheme shall be submitted which may require ab-
solute free labor, or which may require to be executed en-
tirely by hired labor. , -
6. The boards of supervisors of the respective counties
shall have power to make any levy necessary to carry out
this scheme which may have been adopted in their respec-
tive counties: provided said levy shall not exceed fifteen
cents on the one hundred dollars worth of property.