Chap. 444.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5 and 17 of chapter 357,
acts 1887-88, as to the bonds of the district road commissioners, &c., in the
county of Rockingham.

Approved February 26, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tions five and seventeen of an act entitled an act to provide for
making, changing and working roads in the county of Rockingham,
approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 5. That the commissioner of roads provided for in this act shall
reside in the district for which he is elected, and his term of office
shall begin on the first day of July next succeeding his election. He
shall qualify at the time and in the manner prescribed by law for
the qualification of magisterial district officers, and shall at the time
of his qualification or before he enters upon the discharge of his du-
ties, give bond, with approved personal security, in the sum of five
hundred dollars, conditioned upon the faithful performance of his
duties; for any failure to discharge this duty recovery may be had
upon said bond for the benefit of the district road board.

§ 17. That the supervisor of each district shall be ex-officio chair-
man of the board of commissioners of roads of his district. All war-
rants on the county treasurer to pay all expenses of each district
shall be signed by the clerk of said board and by the district road
commissioner, and countersigned by the chairman of each board.

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