Chap. 436.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide
for working and keeping in repair the public roads of Nelson county,
approved March 7, 1894.

Approved February 26, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That in
and for the county of Nelson the board of supervisors, together with
the county judge, are hereby made and constituted a road board, of
which the said judge shall be the president, and as such shall have
worked and kept in repair the public roads of said county by adopt-
ing such rules and regulations as they may deem proper, expedient
and necessary. In the event of a tie vote on any question at any
session of the said board they are hereby authorized and empowered
to summon the sheriff of the county, who shall cast the deciding vote.

2. The said road board is empowered and authorized to levy (when
it makes its annual county levy) a road tax, not to exceed twenty
cents on the one hundred dollars’ worth of property, to be collected
by the county treasurer; but the tax so levied and collected in each
district shall he used and applied in that respective district by said
road board, except that of the railroads, which shall be equally
divided between the two districts.

3. Said road board shall meet the Wednesday after the first Tues-
day in each month, beginning with the month of April, eighteen
hundred and ninety-four, and for actual attendance on said board
each member shall receive the sum of two dollars a day.
4. The clerk of the county court shall perform the duties of clerk
for said board, who shall receive for his services such sum as said
board may deem right and proper.

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