Chap. 853.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved Mareh 7, 1S04, en-
titled amact to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads of
Nelson county as amended by an act approved February 26, 1896.

Approved March 3, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act
approved March seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, entitled an
act to provide for working and Neeping | in repair the public roads of Nel-
son county as amended by an act approved February twenty-sixth.
eighteen hundred and nincty-six, be amended and re-enacted so as to

read as follows:

That in and for the county of Nelson the board of supervisors are
hereby made and constituted a road board, and as such shall have worked
and kept in repair the public roads and bridges of said county by adopt-
ing such rules and regulations as they may deem proper, expedient and
necessary.

2. The board of supervisors of Nelson 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 dol-
lars’ 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 magisterial district by said road board, except that of the
railroad and telegraph lines, which shall be equally divided between the
three.

8. Said board shall meet the Wednesday after the first Tuesday in
April, eighteen | hundred and ninety-eight, and at special meetings as
often as may be necessary as determined by majority of said board; and
for actual attendance on said board each member shall receive the sum
of two dollars a day, and for other services rendered in supervising and
inspecting roads the sum of one dollar and fifty cents a day, accounts
for such services to be itemized and sworn to: provided, however, that
no member for the latter service shall receive more than thirty dollars for
any one year.

4. But it is not intended by this act to repeal i in any manner whatever
the powers and duties of the county court as set forth in section nine
hundred and eighty-seven of the code of eighteen hundred and eighty-
seven in regard to great and unforeseen damages, emergencies, and 80
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 compensation as
said board may deem right and proper.

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repealed.

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