Chap. 308.—An ACT to provide for the working, keeping in repair, and letting
out the public roads, bridges and ferries in Nansemond county.

Approved February 1], 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That in and for
the county of Nansemond the board of supervisors is hereby made and
constituted a road board, and as such shall have worked and kept in re-
pair the public roads and bridges of the said county, and shall let out
and have kept the public bridges and ferries in said county by adopting
such rules, specifications and regulations as they may deem proper,
expedient and necessary.

2. The said board of supervisors shall levy (when it makes its annual
county levy) a road tax not to exceed twenty cents on the one hundred
dollars’ worth of real and personal property, to be collected by the
county treasurer, and to be appropriated for general road purposes, and
shall have the right to make the rate of tax on each one hundred dol-
lars’ worth of property different in each magisterial district in said
county. And the said board is authorized to appropriate for general
road purposes, along with the said property tax, the capitation tax of
fifty cents on every male citizen over twenty-one years of age, as allowed
under the constitution of this state, to be likewise collected by said
county treasurer: provided, that the fund collected in each magisterial
district in said county shall be kept separate and apart by the said
county treasurer, and the fund collected in each magisterial district shall
be applied to the working and keeping in repair the public roads and
bridges in said district; and provided, further, that the property tax
and capitation tax levied on property in the town of Suffolk and col-
lected therein shall be of such rate as requested by.the.council of said
town of Suffolk, to be collected by the treasurer of said town of Suffolk,
and expended under the direction of the council of said town of Suffolk
on the public roads of said county within one mile of the corporate
limits of the said town of Suffolk.

3. Said board shall meet monthly, and for the services required under
this act each member thereof shall receive an annual allowance not ex-
ceeding the sum of fifty dollars, in addition to the compensation now
allowed said board of supervisors.

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.

0. All acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

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