Chap. 505.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 7, 16, 17, 18 and 19 of an
act entitled an act to provide for the working of roads in Gainesville dis-
trict, of Prince William county, and approved February 25, 1692.

Approved March 1, 1894.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tions two, seven, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen and nineteen of an act
entitled an act to provide for the working of roads in Gainesville
district, of Prince William county, and approved February twenty-
fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, be amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:

§ 2. That for Gainesville magisterial district, in the county of
Prince William, there is hereby created and established a board.
consisting of the supervisor, commissioner of roads and one of the
justices of the peace of said district, which board shall have the ex-
clusive control of the roads and bridges within its limits, and all
taxes levied for road purposes and for building and repairing bridges
shall be expended in said district as hereinafter provided. The jus-
tice of the peace constituting a member of the board shall be chosen
and designated by the three justices of the peace elected and com-
missioned in said district, and the commissioner of roads shall] be
elected by the voters of the district as hereinafter provided. The
designation of the justice who is to serve on said board shall be in
writing, and shall be preserved and recorded by the board. The
board hereby created and constituted is declared to be a body politic
and corporate, and shall be known and designated as the board of
commissioners of roads for Gainesville magisterial district. The
said members of the board of commissioners of roads for Gaines-
ville magisterial district shall receive two dollars per day each for
every day of their meetings, but not to exceed twelve dollars to each
in any one year.

§ 7. That the commissioner of roads shall have charge of all the
roads in his magisterial district. His duty shall be to see that al!
the roads in his district are of the proper width, and in all cases
where they are not, to notify the person trespassing by written no-
tice; and if the obstructions are not removed after reasonable
notice, not to exceed ninety days, he shall direct the overseer of the
district to remove the fencing or other obstruction, and may recover
the expenses, with cost, from the trespasser upon a judgment of a
justice of the peace. He shall examine the roads in his district
twice in each year, in the months of May and October, and see that
the roads and bridges are kept in good repair by the overseer; and
if he shall find any overseer delinquent in the discharge of the duties
imposed upon him by this law, or by the commissioner of roads, the
said commissioner shall give him notice in writing, and on his failure
to discharge said ‘duties in a reasonable time, he shall, unless good
cause be shown, remove him from his office and forthwith appoint
another in his place. His compensation shall be two dollars per
diem for each day in which he has been or may be employed in dis-
charging his duties under the provisions of this law, and to be paid
by the road board of the district, not to exceed, however, the sum of
thirty dollars per annum; provided that persons applying for a new
road, or to lay out, open, alter or change a public road, shall, when
the same is rejected, be charged with the per diem compensation of
the commissioner of roads.

§ 16. That the road board of the district shall annually, in the
month of July of each year, lay a road tax not exceeding thirty
cents on the dollar of the amount of state revenue, and a like per-
centage on licenses within the district as adjusted for the state and
county tax, and shall certify the amount to be raised to the commis-
sioner of the revenue, and he shall extend the taxes against all prop-
erty and persons in the district levied for road purposes, a copy of
which shall be returned to the clerk’s office of the county court, and
the commissioner of the revenue shall receive for his services under
this section five dollars annually. The treasurer of Prince William
county, from the said copy so returned, shall make out his book for
the collection of said tax, or he can, in lieu of making out a separate
book, add the said road tax to the regular tax-bills in Gainesville
district.

§ 17. That the treasurer of the county shall collect the road tax and
pay the same over to the commissioner of roads of the district. He
shall be charged with the full amount of the road taxes for the year
and credited by all sums paid over in money or otherwise, as herein
provided. He shall, in the month of December in each year, give
notice, by posting handbills in each road district, to tax-payers,
requiring them to call on him and pay their road taxes. Such as
shall make payment on or before the first day of March thereafter
shall be entitled to a reduction of five per centum. The treasurer
shall receive, as an equivalent to money, all accounts for labor,
teams, wagons, plows, materials furnished or for services rendered in
any way, when properly certified to by commissioner of roads or
overseer, and the same shall be receipted for by the commissioner as
if paid to him in money. The commissioner of roads, acting under
the provisions of this act, shall settle with the road board of the
district on the first Monday in June of each year, or as soon there-
after as said board shall meet, and account for all moneys received
by him from the treasurer for road purposes, and pay over avy bal-
ance in his hands to his successor in office, which shall be placed to
the credit of the board and appropriated for road purposes.
§ 18. That if any person shall neglect: to make payment of road
taxes until after the first day of March, the treasurer shal] make out
a list of delinquents and the amount of taxes due from each. and
shall collect them as now provided by law for the collection of state
taxes.

§ 19. That the road board shall annually, on or before the first
day of July, audit, adjust and settle the accounts of the treasurer
for the preceding year; that they shall charge the treasurer with the
full amount of the road tax levied in the district, and shall credit
him by his commissions, delinquents, and all payments made by
him to the commissioner of roads for which he has the proper
receipt. He shall receive the same per centum for collecticg road
taxes as is allowed for collecting the state revenue.

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