Chap. 100.—An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Culpeper county to
provide certain machinery, tools, implements, and teams, to be used in working the
public roads of the said county, and to authorize them to make requisition for
penitentiary convicts to be employed in the operation thereof, and to regulate
the use of the same.

Approved January 25, 1898,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the board
of supervisors of the county of Culpeper be, and they are hereby,
authorized and empowered to purchase a suitable engine, rock-crusher,
and such other implements and tools, and such teamis as may be requi-
site to the proper working and improving of the public roads of the
coulty, for the use of the said hoard of supervisors and of the several
boards of commissioners of roads and commissioners of roads of the
several districts of the county; the said machinery, tools, implements,
and teams to be operated and used upon such roads of the county as
the board of supervisors shall direct, and at such times as they may in-
dicate.

2. Any commissioner of roads, when authorized by the board of road
commissioners for his district, may apply to the board of supervisors
for the use of said machinery, tools, implements, and teams, in which
application he shall specify the road or roads on which, the time at and
during which it is proposed to use the same. And the said board may,
by an order entered upon its records, if the road or reads are such as
are proper to be worked therewith, grant the said application; but the
sald machinery, tools, implements, and teams shall be at all times sub-
ject to the disposal and control of said board of mupervisars If two or
more road commissioners apply for the same, to be used at the same
time, the board of supervisors shall direct Which application shall be
granted, and arrange such other time or times at and during which the
other commissioners of roads may use them,

3. The board of supervisors are further authorized and empowered to
make requisition for and obtain convicts from the penitentiary, in ac-
cordance with the provisions of section forty-one hundred and_thirty-
three of the code of Virginia, as amended by an act of the general assen-
bly of Virginia, approved the eighth day of March, eighteen hundred
and ninety-four, to be used and employed in the operation of the said
machinery, tools, implements, and teams. Whenever said machinery.
ind so forth, is operated by convicts, as provided in this section, said
hoard shall employ a capable and discrect person to have charge of the
said machinery and convicts, and to superintend and direct the opera-
tion of the same and the manner of working said roads, subject to the
direction and approval of the said board; and the said board shall fur-
ther employ and provide suitable guards and superintendents of the
convicts as may be necessary, and shall provide for the proper safe-keep-
ing and board of said convicts; the said superintendent, guards, cost of
keeping and board of convicts, and the working of said roads by them
to be paid out of the county treasury; but the working of roads under
this section shall be done at such times and places as that the same shall
be equitably distributed among the several districts of the county.

4. The said board of supervisors shall have the power to let or fur-
nish the said machinery, tools, Implements, and convicts to any con-
tractor under the road laws of Culpeper county, the same to be used,
employed, or worked on the roads embraced in such contract, upon such
terms as May appear proper; or it may let to contract any of the public
roads of the county to be worked with said machinery, tools, implements,
teams, and convicts, In such manner and upon such terms as it may
deem most expedient.
5. This act shall be in force from its passage.