Chap. 252.—An ACT providing for the working, opening, and keeping in repair
the roads in Cumberland county.

Approved May ‘15, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act
providing for the working, opening, and kecping in repair the roads in
the county of Cumberland, and for the building and keeping in repair
the bridges in said county, approved March the third, eighteen hun-
dred and ninety-six, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

That from and after August the first, nineteen hundred and three,
all of the public roads in the county of Cumberland shall be under the
direction, care, and control of the board of supervisors of said county.

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And it shall be the duty of said board of supervisors to see that the
county road) funds are economically, usefully, and intelligently ex-
pended; to establish rules for making, altering, repairs, and main-
tenance of roads as provided by law; to provide for the erection and
maintenance of suitable and necessary bridges, and to exercise a gen-
eral supervision over all the roads in said county. The board of super-
visors of said county shall annually levy along with the county levy
a tax upon the property—real and personal—assessed for taxation in
the county, which shall be applied to working and keeping in order the
roads and public bridges as provided by law; such tax shall not be less
than five nor more than twenty cents upon the one hundred dollars in
‘value of such property, and the same shall be collected and accounted
for and paid out on warrants of the board as are other county funds:
provided, that said board of supervisors shall not be prevented from
applying to the road fund any money not needed to defray the or-
dinary expenses of the county. The board of supervisors is hereby au-
thorized to employ and work vagrants and convicted criminals confined
in the public and county jail upon the public roads of the county, and
to establish proper rules and regulations for the management and guard-
ing the same. The members of the board of supervisors shall each
receive for his services in inspecting and overlooking the roads in his
respective district one dollar and fifty cents per day for time actually
employed: provided, the total compensation does not exceed fifteen dol-
lars for any one year to each member of said board.
2. All acts inconsistent with the above are hereby repealed.
3. This act shall be in force from its passage.