Chap. 431.—An ACT to provide for a read law for Spotsylvania county.
APEHOTED February 21, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That from and
after the first dav of July, ‘diehteen hundred and ninetv- -eicht, the board
of supervisors of Spotsvlvania county shall have the care and control of
all the roads and bridges in said county. And they shall annually levy
atax on all the real estate and personal property in said county, not to ex-
ceed twenty cents on the one hundred dollars’ value thereof, ‘which shall
he collected and accounted for as other county levies and paid out on the
warrants of the board of supervisors, This tax shall be known as the
road tax, and the amount collected in each magisterial district shall be
expended in the district from which it Js derived.

2. The board of supervisors of said county shall, as soon as practica-
ble after the passsge of this act, nominate one or more suitable and
capable persons to the county court of said county as overseer or over-
seers of roads in each magisterial district in said county, and it shall be
the duty of the judge of said court to appoint the person or persons so
nominated if he approves the same.

The road overseers thus appointed shall reside in the district im
which their roads are located, and shall give bond in the sum of five
hundred dollars, and good security, for a faithful performance of their
duties. And it shall be the duty of said overseers, under the direction
of the board of supervisors, to work and keep in repair all the roads
and bridges in their respective districts, except such bridges as the board
of supervisors shall see proper to let to the lowest bidder. Said overseers
shall have all the rights to take from adjacent lands such materials as
they would be authorized to use under the general road laws of the state,
for the benefit of public highwavs. Each overseer shall have charge of
all the tools and implements furnished him by the board of supervisors,
and shall give his receipt for same, and shall ‘be authorized by the board
of supervisors to hire teams and hands for carrying on the work, at any
time, at such rate per diem and such number of hours per day as the
board of supervisors may determine. And to meet such expenses the
board may place in the hands of such overseer such sums of money as
may be actually necessary for the proper performance of his duty on
such roads. Said overseers shall make quarterly reports to the board of
supervisors as to the condition of the roads and bridges in their respec-
tive districts—with an itemized statement from each overseer of all work
done and all money expended by him,

Said overseers shall be paid not more than one dollar and twenty-five
cents per day each for their services while engaged in work on said reads
and bridges.

4. It shall he the duty of each supervisor to inspect all the roads and
bridges in his distriet four times each vear; said inspection to be made
in each instance Just prior to the quarterly report of the overseers. ‘The
times for said reports shall be fixed by the board.

® The supervisors shall receive one dollar per day each while making
said inspection, but shall not receive more than ten dollars in any one
year for said work,
6. Each overseer shall be appointed for the term of two years, but
may be removed by the board of supervisors for incompetency or neg-
lect of duty at any time, and shall be responsible under his bond for
neglect of duty or failure to account for funds placed in his hands by
the board, and a recovery may be had in the name of the county for the
henetit of the road fund in the county court by motion after ten days’
notice to the overseer and his sureties.

7. Such provisions of the general road law of the state as do not con-
tlict with this act shall continue in foree in Spotsylvania county. An
act to provide for the working and keeping in order the roads_in Spot-
sylvania county, approved March sec ond, eighteen hundred and ninety-
four, is hereby repealed. Said repeal to “Oo nto effect on the third day
of June, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight.

S. This act shall be in force on and after July the first, eighteen hun-
dred and ninety-eight.