Chap. 542.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 16 of an act approved Feb-
ryary 29, 1892, entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in order the
public roads in the county of Louisa.

Approved February 26, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
sixteen of an act passed February twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and
ninety-two, entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in order
the public roads in the county of Louisa be amended and re-enacted so
as to read as follows:

§ 16. The overseers shall be paid at the rate of one dollar per day
for the time they are actually employed in summoning the hands to
work upon the roads in their precincts, for which they shall make out
their accounts, make oath to the correctness of the same, and present
to the said court, when the court will order the amount due each over-
seer to be paid him by the treasurer out of the road fund of such over-
seers road district. The road commissioner of each district, to the
parties from whom he may purchase timber or other material or tools,
or hire teams, or vehicles, or plows, or other implements, and to the
foreman and all persons employed upon the roads as hereinafter pro-
vided, immediately after such purchase is made and the timber or other
material or tools are furnished, or such teams, vehicles or plows, or
other implements are used, and in case of labor employed as aforesaid,
on the tenth of each month, for the work done the preceding month,
shall issue certificates for the amount due thereon; and this shall be
done in case of amounts due for timber or other material or tools pur-
chased, either in the working the roads by the overseer or by the em-
ployed labor, as hereinafter provided for; and the rates that such road
commissioner shall allow for the same shall be in accordance with a
schedule to be made out by the supervisors as early as may be after the
passage of this act, subject to the approval of the court, and in the time
intervening before such supervisors may act, in accordance with a
schedule to be made out by the said court. The road commissioners
shall return to each term of said court an itemized statement of all
certificates issued by them during the preceding month, stating the
amount of each, to whom given, and for what. These certificates shall
be dated, and of the following form:

,»——_—, road commissioner for
road district of Louisa county, do certify that
is entitled to the sum of ——————————- dollars and
cents for ———————_——_-

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And such certificate shall not be assignable or transferable, and upon
presentation to the county court the same will order the treasurer to
pay the same to the party in whose favor the certificate is the amount
thereof, unless the court ascertain that this amount is not due to such
party, in which case it shall order the true amount due him, if any,
to be paid by the treasurer out of the road fund belonging to the said
road district in which such expense was incurred.

And whenever, in the discretion of said court, there is to the credit
of any road district or districts in said county an amount in excess. of
the amount actually necessary for roads and bridges in such district or
districts, the said court may, in its discretion, order such excess to be
placed by the treasurer of the county to the credit of the county, to be
expended as other county funds for general county purposes.