Chap. 576.—An ACT to provide for the repair and maintenance of the public
roads in Princess Anne county.

Approved March 6, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
judge of the county court of Princess Anne shall appoint as soon as
practicable after the passage of this act, one or more suitable and
capable persons as overseer or overseers of roads in each magisterial
district in said county, and the term of the present overseer shall expire
on the passage of this act.

2. That said overseers and the board of supervisors, together, shall
constitute what shall be known as the county road commission, and shall
have power to do all things necessary in maintaining and keeping in
repair the roads and bridges in said county.

3. The road overseers thus appointed, shall reside in the district in
which their roads are located, and shall give bond in the sum of five
hundred dollars, with good security for the 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 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 highways. 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 author-
ized by the board of supervisors to hire teams and hands for carrying
on the work at any time, at such rate per diem as the board of super-
visors may determine, and to meet such expenses the board shall place
in the hands of such overseer or overseers, 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 and to the county court, as to the condition of the roads
and bridges in their respective districts, with an itemized statement
from each overseer, of all work done, and all money expended by him,
verified by aflidavit.

Said overseers shall be paid not more than one dollar and fifty cents
per day each for their services, while engaged in work on said roads
and bridges.

4. It shall be the duty of each supervisor to inspect all roads and
bridges in his district four times each year, 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 muak-
ing said inspection, but shall not receive more than ten dollars in
any one vear for said work.

6, tach overseer shall be appointed for the term of two years, but
may be removed by the county court for incompetency or nezlect of
duty, or for other sufficient cause, at any time, in the manner now
prescribed by law, 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
benefit of the road fund, in the county court by motion, after ten days’
notice to the overseers and his sureties.

. NO supervisor or overseer shall, directly or indirectly, in any man-
ner or form, be interested pec auniarily in any contract or otherwise, in
the working or keeping in repair, or building any bridge or road in
said county.

8. For failure to perform any of the duties required by this act
of either the said overseers or supervisors, or either of them, they or
either of them shall forfeit for the use of the road fund, the sum of
twenty-five dollars for each violation, to be recovered in the manner
prescribed by section six of this act.

Such provisions of the general road law of the state as do not conflict
with this act, shall continue in force in Princess Anne county, but any
act or parts of acts conflicting with this act, is hereby repealed.

9. This act shall be in force on and after July the first, nineteen

hundred.