Chap. 264.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 2:
1898, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved May 20, 1903, providec
for the working and keeping in repair the roads, and the building anc
keeping in repair the bridges in the county of Essex, and providing wha
tax shall be used for keeping the same in order.

Approved March 15, 1906.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the act en.
titled an act to provide for working and keeping in repair the roads and
building and keeping in repair the bridges in the county of Essex, ay?
proved February twenty-third, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, a:
amended and re-enacted by an act approved May twentieth, nineteen hun-
dred and three, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

$1. The management and control of all roads and bridges in the county
of Issex shall be placed under the direction of the board of supervisors
of the said county, who are hereby constituted a road board for the pur-
pose.
P $2. The said hoard of supervisors shall make each year a general levy
to cover the expenses of opening new roads, building and keeping in re-
pair and purchasing whatever teams, wagons, machinery, and equipment
they may deem necessary for use upon the roads in said county, which
said levy shall be included in the general county levy, and in case the
said board of supervisors decide to purchase teams, wagons, carts, ma-
chinery, or equipments as they in their discretion are hereby allowed to do
from the general county levy, the said teams, wagons, carts, machinery.
and equipments, when not in use on the roads, shall be kept at the poor-
house farm, subject to such use and direction as the board of supervisors
may agree upon and order.

$3. The said board of supervisors shall also annually make a special
levy in each district as now provided by law for working and keeping in
repair all roads in such district, which, in addition to whatever capitation
tax may be levied for road purposes in the respective districts in the said
county, shall be known as the district road fund, and placed in the hands
of the supervisors of the respective districts as hereinafter provided.
§4. Each member of the board of supervisors shall have entire super-
vision of all roads in his district, and shall appoint a competent and ca-
pable man to act as superintendent of roads in his district, who shall at
a times be under the direction and control of the supervisors appointing

im.

§5. Such superintendent shall receive two dollars per day for the time
actually employed, not to exceed one hundred and fifty dollars per year ;
be removable at any time at the pleasure of the superintendent appoint-
ing him, and for failure to perform faithfully the duties of his office, he
shall be liable to presentment before the grand jury, and upon conviction
be fined not less than two dollars and fifty cents, nor more than ten
dollars for each such failure.

§6. The board of supervisors may authorize to be paid from time to
time out of the respective district road funds such allowances as they may
deem necessary for services in hiring, buying, or taking care of teams,
keeping the road accounts or any other incidental expenses for road pur-
poses, not to exceed twenty-five dollars per year in each district. All
money now on hand, or to be raised for road purposes in the respective
districts, as hereinabove provided in section three of this act, shall be
used first in the payment of the per diem of the superintendents in the
respective districts, and in the allowances hereinabove provided for ser-
vices in hiring, buying, or taking care of teams, keeping the road ac-
counts, or other incidental expenses in the respective districts, and the
halance shall be expended in such district for labor or for hire of teams
on the roads in such district, in the most economical and judicious man-
ner, and an itemized account kept of all receipts and disbursements and
the same published in the county paper once every year.

§7. The county treasurer is hereby required to deposit the respective
district road funds now in hand, and all such funds coming into his
hands in the future upon collection, rendering quarterly statements of
the same to the supervisors of the respective districts in a bank to be
designated by the judge of the circuit court of Essex county to the credit
of the supervisor of the district from which the said fund shall have been
obtained, in his official capacity as supervisor. And when the said dis-
trict road fund shall have been so deposited, it shall be disbursed only
upon check, signed by the said supervisor in his official capacity as such.

Upon the death, resignation, or other discontinuance in office, of the
supervisor of any district, the bank, which shall have been designated as
the depository for the district road funds, is hereby authorized and
directed to transfer whatever funds may remain in the said bank to the
credit of any such district supervisor at the time of his death, resignation,
or other discontinuance in office, to the credit of his successor in office,
upon satisfactory proof of his qualification as such successor.

88. Each supervisor, before engaging in the duties imposed upon him
under this act, shall enter into bond before the clerk of the circuit court
of Essex county, in the sum of five hundred dollars for the proper dis-
tribution of funds coming into his hands.

2. The general road law shall be in force in Essex county in so far
as it is not in conflict with this act.
3. An emergency existing on account of the urgent need of immediate
work upon the said roads, this is declared an emergency act, and shall be
in force from its passage.