Chap. 513.—An ACT to provide for working and keeping in repair the public
roads of Lee county.

Approved February 27, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That in
and for the county of Lee the board of supervisors, together with
the judge of the county court, are hereby made and constituted a
road board, of which the said judge shall be the president, and as
such shall kave opened and kept in repair the public roads of said
county, and have built, repaired and kept in order the bridges in
said county by adopting such rules and regulations as they may
deem proper, expedient and necessary.

2. The said road board may be, and are hereby, authorized and
empowered to adopt any laws or parts of laws in force in any county
of this state for locating, making and repairing roads in such county
for the purpose of locating, making and repairing public roads and
bridges in Lee county. Such acts or parts of acts thus adopted
shall be entered upon the minutes of the board, and may at any
time be amended by said road board.

3. The said board at their annual meeting shall be empowered and
authorized to levy a road tax, not to exceed thirty cents on the one
hundred dollars’ worth of property for any one year, to be collected
by the county treasurer; but the tax so levied and collected in each
district shall be applied solely to that respective district by said
road board, except the tax collected from the railroads, which shall
be equally divided between the several magisterial districts in said
county by said road board.

4, Said board shall receive the sum of one dollar and fifty cents
per day for their services and mileage, as now provided for: pro-
vided that no member shall be paid for more than eight days in any
one year in carrying out the provisions of this act.

5. The clerk of the county court of said county shall perform the
duties of clerk for said board.

6. That all acts and parts of acts in relation to working the roads
in Lee county in conflict with this act shall, after the first day of
July, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, be repealed.

7. This act shall be in force from and after the first day of July,
eighteen hundred and ninety-six.