Chap. 161.—An ACT to provide for an election in Orange county for the purpose
of taking the sense of the qualified voters upon the question of issuing bonds to
build macadamized public roads; to appoint road commissioners, prescribe their
powers and duties, and to authorize the board of supervisors of said county to
issue and negotiate said bonds.

Approved April 20, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the county
court of Orange county is hereby directed, at its term to be holden for
April, nineteen hundred and three, to order an election in said coumty for
the purpose of taking the sense of the qualified voters upon the proposi-
tion to issue bonds and selling same to an amount not exceeding one
hundred thousand dollars, the proceeds to be applied: to building macada-
mized public roads in said county, the time of holding said election to be
fixed by said court, to be held not later than thirty days from the date of
said order, and to be held in the usual manner of holding special elections.

2. The form of ballots to be used in such election shall be prescribed
by the county court; and if a majority of the votes cast in such election
shall be in favor of issuing said bonds, then they shall be issued under
the supervision of and in such denominations as the board of supervisors
shall determine, at the expense of the fund arising from the proceeds of
the sale of same. Said bonds shall be coupon bonds, dated July first,
nineteen hundred and three, and due July first, nineteen hundred and
thirty-three, redeemable at the option of the board of supervisors of said
county after fifteen years from the date thereof, and shall bear interest at
the rate of four per centum per annum, payable semi-annually. Said bonds
shall not be sold at less than par value; and shall be signed by the chair-
man of the board of supervisors and countersigned by the clerk thereof ;
said bonds shall be negotiated as needed, in sums of twenty-five thousand
dollars at one time, in such manner as the said board of supervisors may
prescribe.

3. The said board of supervisors shall levy a special tax sufficient to
meet the interest on said bonds, which shall be collected as the other
taxes are collected by the treasurer of the county of Orange, and be kept
by him as a separate and distinct fund for that purpose.

4. There shall be a board of road commissioners for each magisterial
district, consisting of three, of which the supervisor for each district
shall be ex-officio a membex, and its chairman: the two remaining mem-
bers to be appointed by the county court, shall be citizens and freeholders
of the district for which they are appointed, and shall serve for four
years, at the end of which time, or in case of a vacancy arising, the court
shall appoint their successors. The members of these boards, except the
supervisor, shall receive from this fund the sum of two dollars per day
for each full day of service as such commissioner.

5. The proceeds of the sale of all bonds issued by virtue of this act
shall be apportioned by the board of supervisors between the different
magisterial districts in proportion to the amount of taxes paid by each
district during the fiscal year last preceding, and said board of super-
visors shall cause such amounts to be deposited with the county treasurer
to the credit of the board of road commissioners for each district. The
treasurer shall pay out the same upon the warrants of such board, signed
by its chairman and clerk, and the treasurer shall receive one-fourth of
one per centum for receiving and disbursing such funds.

6. The treasurer of said county shall execute a bond in the sum of
twenty thousand dollars in some security company doing business in this
State, conditioned for the faithful discharge of his duties in this connec-
tion, the cost of which bond shall be paid out of the funds in his hands
from the sale of said bonds.

7. The board of road commissioners for each district is authorized to
employ a competent engineer, purchase road-making machinery, and to
make contracts for the building of macadamized roads twelve feet wide,
within their respective districts, at such points as the said board shall
designate, leaving, when practicable, the dirt road alongside the macada-
mized road.

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