An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-299, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to devices signalling intention to turn or stop and rules therefor.
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Chap. 246.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act approved March 4,
1896, entitled an act to provide for the working and keeping in repair the public
roads and bridges in the counties of Northumberland and Westmoreland.
Approved May 15, 1903.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
four of an act approved March fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six,
entitled an act to provide for the working and keeping in repair the
public roads and bridges in the counties of Northumberland and West-
moreland, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
§ 4. Whenever, in the judgment of the board of supervisors of cach
of the said counties, it is desirable to work the roads in any disfrict
within the respective countics other than by the contract svstem, they
shall have power to employ some responsible person who resides in the
district in which the work is desired to be done, who shall be the super-
intendent of the work and attend to the hiring of so many men as are
required to perform the necessary Jabor at such a sum per day as the
said board may determine upon. and the said superintendent shall re-
ceive for his services such sum per dav as the said board and himself
shall agree upon for each dav that he may superintend the working of
the roads. Every superintendent shall present to the board of super-
visors at its next regular mecting succeeding the completion of the
work his accounts for services, together with a full list of the men who
have performed work upon the roads in his district in obedience to call,
an itemized statement of the time engaged, and the amount. respec-
tively, due for such work, and also a statement of the number of teams,
wagons, carts, plows, and such other implements used, by whom fur-
nished, the amount due for each, and time actually employed in work,
together with all expenses incurred by him in working the roads under
his charge. This return shall be sworn to before the board by the super-
intendent at the time it is made, and the board may, if it deem it neces-
sary, require any other evidence as to its correctness. No euch return
shall be passed upon unless it is in proper form. Such return may be
approved by the board in whole or in part, or it may reject the same in
toto. If approved in any way, the board of supervisors shall issue the
proper warrants upon the county treasurer for payment of amounts
due.
It shall be the duty of the board of supervisors to carefully scru-
tinize each account, and if, from the knowledge of any member or from
other evidence there be any reason why any return, or any part thereof,
should not be allowed, the board shall reject the same in full or in part.
A day for work mentioned in this act shall not be less than eight
hours.
All warrants issued by virtue of this act shall be received in pay-
ment of all dues and demands held by the county against the legal
holder thereof, except what may be due for county or district free school
purposes.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.
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