Chap. 25.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 24 and 25 of an act ap-
proved January 25, 1898, entitled an act to provide for the opening and
working of roads, and to provide for the erecting and maintaining of
bridges in the county of Culpeper.

Approved January I, 1900.

Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sections
twenty-four and twenty-five of an act approved January twenty-fifth,
eishteen hundred and ninety-eight, entitled an act to provide for the
opening and working of roads and keeping the same in repair. and to
provide for erecting and maintaining bridges in the county of Culpeper,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

& 24. Anv person failing to pav any road taxes to the treasurer bv the
first dav of December, shall incur a penaltv equal in amount to that
incurred for non-pavment of state taxes, which shall be added to the
road taxes and collected and accounted for as provided for in case of
state and county taxes.

8 25. That the board of commissioners of roads shall annuallv on
the first Mondav in June, audit, adjust, and settle the accounts of the
treasurer for the preceding year. Thev shall charge the treasurer with
the full amount of road tax levied in the district, and shall credit him
bv his commissions, delinquents and all payments made by him to the
commissioner of roads, for which he has the proper receipt. The treas-
urer shall receive the same per centum for collecting road taxes as for
collecting the state revenue. He shall pav said road taxes, received
and collected by him, upon warrants issucd by the board of commis-
sioners of roads. The clerk of the board shall receive as compensation
for his services two dollars per diem for the time actually engaged in
attendance upon the meetings of the board, not to exceed twelve dollars
In any one year, and an additional sum for clerical services, not to exceed
thirteen dollars in any one year. The chairman of the board shall receive
as compensation for his services two dollars per diem for the time actuallv
engaged in attendance upon the meetings of the board, not to exceed
twelve dollars in any one vear.
This act shall be in force from its passage.