Chap. 102.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3, 6, and 9, and to repeal
sections 8 and 12 of the act approved February 16, 1901, which is chapter
331 of the acts of the special session of 1901, concerning the roads in Mont-
gomery county.

Approved March 8, 1906.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sections
three, six, and nine of the act concerning the roads in Montgomery
county, which is chapter three hundred and thirty-one of the acts of the
special session of nineteen hundred and one, be amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:

$3. It shall be the duty of said foreman to oversee and to direct his
force of hands in performance of their duty, and in addition to such
overseeing and direction shall also perform such manual labor as he im-
poses upon his hands. ‘The road foreman shall employ as many hands
and teams as shall be necessary to keep his roads in such repair as may
be prescribed by the commissioner of roads. The board of supervisors
shall from time to time, after consultation with the road commissioners
of each district, prescribe the prices to be paid to road foreman and hands,
and for teams, wagons, plows, and other utensils which may be required
for road work. The road foreman shall keep a strict itemized account,
on forms provided for that purpose, of the time actually worked by him-
self and his hands, and render an account of the same to the road com-
missioners at such times as they may require, and at least every six
months, making affidavit to the correctness of said account before some
officer: the road commissioners shall examine carefully said account, and
if found to be correct, approve the same and report it to the meeting of
the board of supervisors fixed for auditing road claims, and when so
presented and approved the board shall allow said claims and issue war-
rants to cach person entitled to pay. for the amounts due them, re-
spectively.

&6. Roads shall be established, altered, discontinued, and bridges built
as the general road law of the State may provide for such matters, and
the board of supervisors shall determine by what districts and in what
proportion the expenses shall be paid. All proceedings now pending in
the circuit court for Montgomery county for the establishment or altera-
tion of roads or the building of bridges shall be proceeded with to final
determination, as would have been done if ‘this act had not been passed.

When a road is established or ordered the county clerk shall record the
report in full, together with the surveyor’s report, in a well-bound book
kept for that purpose, and index the same, for which he shall receive the
same rate of fees that he would for recording a deed.

For every failure to record and index a report within sixty days from
the time the order establishing or ordering the road is entered he shall be
fined not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars for each offense.

$9. All costs attending application for opening or altering roads or
building bridges shall, when the petitioners do not prevail, be at the cost
of the applicant, and upon the final disposition of the application the
county clerk shall be directed to tax the costs and issue execution therefor
as upon the judgment of a court, and he shall do so where the road is
established or ordered or the bridge directed to be built. The cost attend-
ing the application shall be paid out of the road fund.

2. Sections eight and twelve of said act are hereby repealed.

3. It being represented that the passage of this act is necessary to
enable the authorities to employ sufficient hands to work the roads. an
emergency exists, and this act shall be in force from its passage.