Chap. 404.—An ACT to provide for working and keeping in repair the public
roads of Buchanan and Dickenson counties.

Approved February 20, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That in and
for the counties of Buchanan and Dickenson the board of supervi-
sors of their respective counties are hereby made and constituted a
road board of their respective counties, and as such shal] have worked
and kept in repair the public roads of their respective counties by
adopting such rules and regulations as they may deem proper, expe-
dient, and necessary,

2. The said road board is empowered and authorized to levy a road
tax of not exceeding twenty cents on the one hundred dollars’ worth
of property for each year; for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-
six said road board shall, in the month of April, make the levy for
eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and for each subsequent year said
levy shall be made at the time when the said board makes its annual
levy, said road levy to be collected and accounted for by the county
treasurer, but the tax so levied and collected in each district shall
be used and applied in their respective districts by said road board.

3. The said road board shall meet at such times as they deem pro-
per to carry out the provisions of this act, and be paid the same fees
now allowed supervisors in said counties, provided that said board
shall not be paid for more than five days for any one year under the
provisions of this act.

4. The clerk of the county courts for the respective counties shall
perform the duties of clerk for said board, who shall receive for his
services such 8um as said board may deem right and proper.

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