Chap. 246.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved January 29, 1898,
entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads
of Amherst county, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 2,
1898; and to repeal an act approved March 14, 1902, entitled an act to au-
thorize the board of supervisors of said county to expend surplus money on
roads and bridges.

Approved March 15, 1904.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act
approved January twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, en-
titled an act to provide for working and keeping in repair the public
roads of Amherst county, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved
March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, be amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows: That in and for the county of Amherst
the board of supervisors of said county are hereby made and constituted
a road board for said county, and as such shall have worked and kept in
repair the public roads of said county in accordance with such rules and
regulations as they may deem proper, expedient and necessary, which
rules and regulations shall be published by said road board at least once
in each year, either in the months of June or December.

§2. The board of supervisors of Amherst county is directed and
authorized to levy (when it makes its annual levy) such a district road
levy as may be desired and required by said road board to carry out the
purposes of this act, not to exceed twenty-five cents on the one hundred
dollars’ worth of property, to be collected and accounted: for, as are other
levies, by the county treasurer; the tax so levied and collected in each
district shall be used and applied in that respective district by said road
board and in addition to said district road tax, and the usual estimate
and provision made in the said county levy for building bridges, open-
ing new roads, and so forth, the said board of supervisors are hereby
authorized and empowered to make an additional levy, not to exceed
the sum provided for under the general law, to be collected and ac-
counted for by the county treasurer, like other levies, but to be kept as a
separate fund, and when the said road board shall deem it advisable,
they may allow said fund to accumulate, and may direct the treasurer
of said county to deposit so much of said fund as he may have on hand,
from time to time, in one of the national banks of the city of Lynch-
burg, taking therefor an interest bearing certificate payable to said
treasurer upon the order of said board; this and any other surplus county
funds, now, or at any time in said county treasury, which may be avail-
able for the purpose, the said board of supervisors, by and through the
said road board of said county, is authorized and empowered to use as
said road board may deem advisable and necessary in repairing, relocat-
ing, regrading, and improvement of the public roads, as well as opening
new roads and building bridges in said county, under such rules and
regu ations as said road board may adopt and publish, as heretofore pro-
vided.

3. At the annual or such other settlements as may be had by said
board of supervisors with the treasurer of said county, of the amounts
collected and paid out by said treasurer and expended by said road
board, said accounts shall be audited by a board of auditors, to be com-
posed of the Commonwealth’s attorney and clerk of said county, and a
citizen freeholder of said county, to be selected and appointed by the
judge of the circuit court of Amherst county, for a term of one year,
beginning January first, or as soon thereafter as appointed, and ending
the first of January next following, said citizen member to qualify like
other county officers and to receive out of the road fund of said county
the sum of two dollars and fifty cents for each day of service as a member
of such auditing board; said board of auditors to approve said settle-
ment, and have a statement of same published, with such particularity as
it may deem proper, the same to be paid for out of the road fund of said
county.

§ 4. Said road board shall meet on the first Tuesday in each month
in regular session; and for actual attendance on said board each member
shall receive the sum of two dollars and fifty cents, but not to receive
pay for more than twelve meetings in any one year; and for other ser-
vices rendered in inspecting and supervising roads the sum of two dol-
lars per day, accounts for such services to’ be itemized and sworn to:
provided, however, that no member for the latter service shall receive
pay for more than thirty days in any one year.

§ 5. The county clerk of Amherst shall perform the duties of clerk
for said road board, and the Commonwealth’s attorney for said county
shall be the legal adviser of said road board, with the same duties and
powers as are provided and imposed upon him by law, in connection with
the board of supervisors; said clerk and attorney for the Commonwealth
shall receive for this additional service such sums as said board may
deem right and proper.

§ 6. An act entitled an act to authorize and empower the board of
supervisors of Amherst county to expend any surplus money in the
treasury of said county in repairing and improving the public roads, as
well as opening any new roads, or building bridges of Amherst county,
approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred and two, as chapter one
hundred and seventy-four, together with all other acts and paris of acts
in conflict with this act, are hereby repealed.