Chap. 240.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22
23 and 24 of an act of the general assembly entitled an act to amend and re
enact an act for working and keeping in repair the roadsof the county o:
Tazewell, approved February 24, 1888, and further to provide for permanent
improvement of the roads in said county, approved February 29, 1892.

Approved February 12, 18%.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec.
ons fourteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twen.

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ty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three and twenty-four of an act entitled
an act to amend and re-enact an act for working and keeping in re:
pair the roads in the county of Tazewell, approved February twenty-
eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and further to provide
for the permanent improvement of the roads in said county, approved
February twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 14. In order to provide for the construction of new roads and
for the permanent improvement of roads already constructed in Taze-
well county, the board of supervisors of said county are hereby author-
ized to borrow for the county such sum or sums of money so that the
indebtedness of the county therefor shall not exceed at any one
time sixty thousand dollars; and to secure the money borrowed,
the board of supervisors are authorized and empowered to execute
and sell the bonds of said county of Tazewell, the bonds to be exe-
cuted under the seal of the board of supervisors of said county,
signed by the president of the board of supervisors and attested by
the clerk of the board. Said bonds, however, shall not run longer
than thirty years and shall not bear a greater rate of interest than
six per centum per annum, the interest to be payable semi-annually,
and said bonds shall not be sold below par; but nothing herein shall
prevent or preclude the said board from paying acommission to a
broker or other person to have said bonds placed.

§ 16. The money borrowed for the construction of new roads and
for the permanent improvement of roads already constructed under
the provisions of this act shall be distributed among the three
magisterial districts of said county, as follows: first, the board of
supervisors shall place in the treasury of said county to the credit of
Clear Fork and Maiden Spring magisterial districts, sufficient
amounts to be expended in said magisterial districts to increase the
amount of money already received and expended in each of said magis-
terial districts, under a distribution of money arising from the sale of
county bonds made by the county board of managers in the year
eighteen hundred and ninety-two, until the amount of money re-
ceived by each of said magisterial districts shall be equal to the
amount received and expended in the Jeffersonville magisterial dis-
trict under the said distribution of the aforesaid money made by said
county board of managers in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-
two. And after the Clear Fork and Maiden Spring magisterial dis-
tricts shall have each received the amounts herein above provided
for, all money borrowed under this act shall be distributed equally
among the three magisterial districts of the county.

§ 17. For each magisterial district of Tazewell county, there i:
hereby created and established a board of managers, which saic
board of managers shall control and manage all money received by
their respective districts under the provisions of this act. Th
supervisors of Clear Fork district, together with James A.C. Harman
C. A. Black and Jesse Bailey, are hereby constituted the board o
managers for Clear Fork magisterial district; the supervisors of Jef
fersonville district, together with Joseph S. Gillespie, J. E. Perry anc
W. T. Thompson, are hereby constituted the board of managers fo
Jeffersonville magisterial district; and the supervisors of Maiden
Spring district, together with H. A. White, Erastus Scott and Alex-
ander Barnes, are hereby constituted the board of managers for
Maiden Spring magisterial district. The boards of managers
hereby created and constituted shall be known and designated, re-
spectively, as the board of managers for magisterial district.
And in case of the death of any of the above-named persons, or
their resignation, removal, refusal to serve, or from any cause @
vacancy shall occur, the county court, or the judge thereof in vacation,
shall have power to appoint a successor in the place and stead of
such person.

§ 18. Said board of managers for each of said magisterial dis-
tricts are hereby authorized to let to contract the work of con-
structing new roads or the permanent improvement of roads already
constructed in their respective districts herein provided for, accord-
ing to plans and specifications to be provided by said board; and
said board of managers shall have authority to accept from the con-
tractors such bonds as the board may deem necessary to secure the
faithful performance of the work; said bonds shal] be made payable
to the county of Tazewell, and said county shall have the right to
sue upon and enforce the same. Said board of managers may have
any new road constructed or permanent improvement made on any
road already constructed, by furnishing tools and materials, and
employing foremen to take charge of and superintend such construc-
tion or permanent improvement, if in the judgment of said board of
managers such work can be done for less money than by letting the
fame to contract. But said board of managers shall have no new
road constructed until the location of the same has been skillfully
and permanently made by a competent surveyor or civil engineer,
and the said board shall have power to employ such surveyor or
civil engineer.

§ 19. The supervisor of each magisterial district shall be ex officio
president of the board of managers for his district, and no business
shall be transacted by the board of managers unless three members
of the said board be present, and all questions arising before the
board of managers shall be decided by a recorded. vote of said
board, and no action shall be taken by said board of managers ex-
cept upon a vote of a majority of the members present at any legal
meeting of said board of managers. Said board of managers may
be assembled upon reasonable notice from the president of the
board, or upon notice from any two members of the board in writing.

§ 20. All money so borrowed or arising from the sale of said county
bonds under the provisions of this act shall be divided by the board
of supervisors among the magisterial districts according to the pro-
visions contained in section sixteen of this act, and placed in the
treasury of Tazewell county to the credit of said magisterial dis-
tricts, and the amount credited to any magisterial district, when
allowed by such district’s board of managers, shall be paid by the
treasurer of Tazewell county, upon a warrant drawn by the presi-
dent of such board of managers and attested by the clerk and one
of the members of such board, other than such president or clerk.

§ 21. Each member of the district boards of managers shall be
allowed, as compensation for services required to be performed by
him under the provisions of this act, two dollars per day for the
time he is actually engaged in the performance of duties required of
him.

§ 22. Said boards of managers are hereby authorized to employ
such persons and agents as may be necessary to carry out the provi-
sions of this act.

§ 23. Each of said district boards of managers, at their first meet-
ing, shall elect one of their number clerk of such board, and the
clerk so elected shall keep a record of their proceedings in a book
provided for the purpose, and shall also keep an account, in regular
form, of all money received and expended by such board and of all
tools and materials bought and used and of all labor performed un-
der the provisions of this act in his magisterial district. Said ree-
ords and accounts shall be open to the investigation of any citizen
of the district who may desire to look into the proceedings of the
board of managers for his district. The compensation of such clerk
shall be fixed by the district board of managers to which he be-
longs.

2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby
repealed.

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