Chap. 456.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act approved Febru-
ary 1, 1894, entitled an act to amend an act to provide for working the roads in
Northampton county, approved March 2, 1892, and section 4 of said act, as
amended by an act approved February 28, 1896.

Approved April 2, 1902.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section onc
of an act approved February first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, en-
titled an act to amend an act to provide for working the roads in North-
ampton county, approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-
two, and section four of said act, as amended by an act approved Feb-
ruary twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 1. It shall be the duty of the county court of Northampton county at
its April term thereof, in the year of nineteen hundred and two, to appoint
one superintendent of roads for Franktown and Eastville magisterial dis-
tricts, in said county, whose application for such appointment shall first
be endorsed by at least one hundred voters of said county, and whose term
of office shall end on the first day of January, anno domini nineteen
hundred and three. At the general election, to be held on the first Tucs-
day after the first Monday in November, anno domini nineteen hundred
and two, and biennially thereafter on the Tuesday succeeding the first
Monday in November, there shall be elected by the qualified voters of sail
magisterial districts one superintendent of roads for the said two magis-
terial districts, whose term of office shall be for the two years beginning
on the first day of January next succeeding his election.

§ 4. It shall be the duty of the board of supervisors of said county to
meet at the courthouse of said county on the second Monday in September,
anno domini nineteen hundred and two, and annually thereafter the same
day, and make an estimate of all expenses under this act for the year be-
ginning on the first day of January next ensuing said meeting. They
shall determine what compensation shall be paid to the said superin-
tendent, and for what time, and may fix such compensation at one rate
for one month, and at a different rate for a different month, so that such
compensation shall not at any time exceed the sum of sixty dollars per
month; or, if the said board shall deem it advisable that such compensa-
tion shall be by the day, not to exceed the sum of three dollars per day
for each day of ten hours of actual work upon said roads, or at that rate;
that is to say, thirty cents per hour for each hour of actual work, which
shall not include going to or returning from such work, and any super-
intendent appointed under this act shall be paid the amount so fixed by
the said board of supervisors, but during the time the said board shall
order the suspension of operations under this act the said superintendent
shall receive no compensation. In no case shall the said board authorize
the expenditure of more than three thousand dollars per year under this
act.
4. This act shall be in force from its passage.