Chap. 659.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved January 29, 1898, en-
titled an act to provide for the working and keeping in repair the public roads
of Amherst county.

Approved March 2, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act
approved January twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and nincty-eight,
entitled an act to provide for the working and keeping in repair the
public reads of Amherst county be amended and re-enacted so as to
read as follows: That in and for the county of Amherst the board of
supervisors, together with the county judge, are hereby made and con-
stituted 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
suid 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 au-
thorized 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 purposes
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 Southern rail-
road, which shall be equally divided between the four districts.

3. Said board shall meet the first Tuesday in each month in regular
meeting, beginning with the month of April, 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. But it is not intended by this act to repeal in any manner what-
ever the powers and duties of the county court, as set forth in section
nine hundred and eighty-seven of code of eighteen hundred and eighty-
seven, in regard to great and unforeseen damages, emergencies, and so
forth.

5. 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.

6. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby
repealed.

7. This act shall be in force on and after April first, eighteen hundred
and ninety-eight.