Chap. 119.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for
working and keeping in repair the roads and bridges of Russell county, and to
authorize the board of supervisors to borrow money for said purpose, approved
February 21, 1900.

Approved March 28, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act en-
titled an act to provide for working and keeping in repair the roads and
bridges of Russell county, and to authorize the board of supervisors to
borrow money for said purpose, approved February twenty-first, nineteen
hundred, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

2. The board of supervisors of Russell county are hereby authorized to
borrow for the county the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars,
and to secure the monev borrowed the said board of supervisors are
authorized and empowered to make, execute and sell the bonds of Russell
county, to be executed under the seal of the board of supervisors of said
county, signed bv the chairman of said board, and attested by the clerk
of said board. Said bonds so issued shall be in denominations of one
thousand dollars each, and bear interest at the rate of five per centum
per annum, the interest on all of said bonds to be paid annually, said
bonds to run from one to thirty years, as follows: five thousand of said
bonds to mature at the end of the first year after same are issued; and
five thousand of same to mature each year thereafter until all of said
bonds mature. And to provide a fund with which to pay the annual
interest on said bonds, and to pay the amount of bonds that mature each
year, the said board of supervisors are hereby authorized to increase the
county road levy to sixty cents on the one hundred dollars of assessable
property and land of the county for this purpose.

Said board of supervisors shall use said one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars for the purpose of constructing, grading, building, and macadam-
izing the main and most important public roads in said county, at such
points or places as said roads need macadamizing, and do said work as
rapidly as practicable consistent with: efficient service and economy; and
to enable said board of supervisors to do this work with dispatch and
efficiency, they are empowered to let the macadamizing of said roads to
contract by public or private bids as will obtain the cheapest and best
work, taking from the contractors who contract and agree to do said
work bonds with good and approved security, for such amount as the board
of supervisors may deem sufficient to secure the faithful performance of
said contract, conditioned that the said work shall be done well and in a
workman-like manner, and according to plans and specifications for such
work, and within the time prescribed by saidi contract.

3. Said board of supervisors, in order to build and construct said roads
in a workman-like manner, shall employ and pay out of said fund bor-
rowed, at a salary of not more than one hundred dollars per month while
cngaged in said work, a practical engineer for the county of Russell, whose
cuty it shall be to draw up, under the direction and with the aid of said
board of supervisors, plans and specifications for the construction and
building of said macadamized roads in said county, whose duty it shall
he to supervise, oversee, inspect, and, with the said board, receive said
roads when same are completed by the contractors according to their con-
tracts, plans and specifications for building same, said engineer to devote
his entire time, under the direction of the board, to the construction of
the said roads; said engineer to be the employee of the board for the
proper management of the construction of said roads, to work under their
direction, to make report as often as they may require of the work that is
being done, and may be removed by the board at any time, on ten days’
notice, for inefficiency, want of care to the work in hand, failure to do his
full duty, or other just cause. The said board of supervisors may, out
of said fund, be paid for actual services rendered by them under this act,
at the same rate per diem that they now receive as members of said board,
not to exceed, in addition to what they now receive by law, the sum of
twenty dollars per year.

4. Said fund to be spent by the board of supervisors in the magisterial
districts of said county, as far as the same can be done, in proportion to
the number of miles of important roads in said districts and in said

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county, and said roads in the several magisterial districts and the county
will be built as follows, and in the following order:

First, the Fincastle road, from Scott county to Tazewell county line;
second, road from Old Rosedale to Honaker ; third, Lebanon to Cleveland
and to Dumps creek; fourth, Lebanon to Hansonville; fifth, foot moun-
tein at Moccasin Gap to Castle Wood and to Jim Counts’; sixth, from
Scott county line to Beckley’s mill; seventh, 8. F. Combs’ to Finney’s
siding, by way of S. N. Johnson’s; eighth, from J. P. Clark’s house to
Sword’s creek, and from Sword’s creek to M. P. Clark’s house; ninth,
Hawkins’ mills, down Moccasin to Scott county line; tenth, John T.
Candler’s to Carterton ; eleventh, Honaker to B. F. Fuller’s house.

5. Said roads shall be macadamized fourteen feet in width, and no
road shall be macadamized that is more than four degrees in grade, and
all roads shall be built out-of the creeks and water courses, except where it
is absolutely necessary to cross or go along same, and no macadamizing
shall be done in or along creeks or water courses where same is liable to
be washed out.

6. All acts and parts of acts and laws in conflict with this act, as to
special road laws applicable to the county of Russell, are hereby repealed.

%. This act shall be in force from and after sixty days from its passage.