Chap. 162.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for
the working and keeping in repair the public roads of Amherst county.

Approved January 29, 189%.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That in and
for the county of Amherst 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 adopting such rules
and regulations as they may deem proper, expedient and necessary.

2. The board of supervisors of Amherst county is directed and author-
ized to levy (when it makes its annual county levy) such a road tax as
may be desired and required by said road board to carry out the pur-
poses of this act, not to exceed twenty-five 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 be used and applied
in that respective district by said road board, except that of the rail-
roads, which shall be equally divided between the four districts.

3. Said road board shall meet the first Tuesday in each month in
regular meeting, beginning with the month of July, eighteen hundred
and ninety-eight, and for actual attendance on said board each member
shall receive the sum of two dollars and fifty cents per day; and for
other services rendered in supervising and inspecting roads, the sum of
one dollar and fifty cents per day; accounts for such services to be item-
ized and sworn to: provided, however, that no member for the latter
service shall receive more than thirty dollars in any one year.

4. The clerk of the county court shall perform the duties of clerk for
said road board, who shall receive for his services such sum as said board
may deem right and proper.

5. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby re-
pealed.