Chap. 236.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 21, 26, and 40 of an act en-
titled an act to provide for working and keeping in order the public roads of
Greene and Madison, approved March 5, 1894.

Approved May 14, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sections
twenty-one, twenty-six, and forty of an act entitled an act to. provide for
the working and keeping in order the public roads of Greene and Madi-
son, approved March fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
$21. If the surveyor of any road precinct is unable with the means
and labor at his disposal to keep in good condition his road precinct, he
may apply to the board of supervisors of said county, who may authorize
him to hire as many laborers as will suftice to keep his precinct in good
order, or to repair great damages casually occurring, or open a new road
when ordered by the court. The board of supervisors may also authorize
the surveyor to purchase such material, tools, or implements as may be
necessary to facilitate or economize the work in his precinct. It shall be
the duty of the surveyor of each precinct to work his road when required
to do so by the board of supervisors. The surveyor shall return to the
board of supervisors a particular account on an oath of the expenses so
incurred, and for hire of teams, plows, and so forth; also the expense of
placing and keeping sign- -boards, as before mentioned, and shall allow the
same, or so much thereof as may be due, to be paid out of the county levy.

$26. Every surveyor of a road shall be entitled to compensation, at
the discretion of the board of supervisors, and pay out of the county levy
not exceeding one dollar per day. Any surveyor of a road who shall fail
to perform any duty required of him in this act shall pay a fine of not
less than five nor more than thirty dollars.

§ 40. Each supervisor is hereby constituted a road inspector for his
magiste ‘rial district. That it shall be the duty of said inspector to see that
all Toads in his district are of lawful width and clear of obstructions ; and
it shall be the duty of each inspector, between the tenth and fifteenth of
October of each year, to pass over and inspect every road in his district,
and to report the result of his inspection to the county court at its March
and August term of each year. Each supervisor shall receive one hundred
dollars per year for this service.

2. The provisions of this act shall only apply to the working of the pub-
lic roads in Madison county.

3. This act shall be in force from its passage.