Chap. 208.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend
and re-enact an act entitled an act to establish a general road fund for the
permanent improvement of the roads and the bridges of Dinwiddie county, to
create a road board for Dinwiddie county, and to prescribe its powers and
duties, and to provide for the appointment of a county superintendent of
roads, and to regulate his duties, approved March 8, 1904, as amended and
re-enacted by an act approved March 15, 1906.

Approved March 12, 1908.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act
entitled, “an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to estab-
lish a general road fund for the permanent improvement of the roads
and the bridges of Dinwiddie county; to create a road board for Din-
widdie county, and to prescribe its powers and duties, and to provide
for the appointment of a county superintendent of roads, and to regu-
late his duties,” approved March eighth, nineteen hundred and four, as
amended and re-enacted by an act approved March fifteenth, nineteen
hundred and six, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§1. The board of supervisors of Dinwiddie county shall create a special
road fund by setting apart and appropriating thereto one-half of the
road taxes of said county in each year, which special road fund and
such other moneys as may be lawfully appropriated thereto, shall be
expended annually for the permanent improvement of the main public
roads of said county. Permanent improvement shall include only the
building of macadam, gravel or sand-clay roads, or the doing of work
on main public roads under the direction, or with the approval of the
State highway commissioner, and the said special fund may be used in
order to obtain the benefit of any laws which may be passed granting
State aid to county highways.

§2. The other half of said road taxes shall be set apart for the build-
ing and repair of the bridges and for the repair of roads, and shall be
known as the bridge and repair fund.

§3. There is hereby created a board, to be known as the road board
of Dinwiddie county, which shall consist of one member from each
magisterial district, and one member from the county at large. The
members now in office shall continue in office until July first, nineteen
hundred and six. On or before the first day of July, nineteen hundred
and six, and annually thereafter, the judge of the circuit court of said
county in term time or vacation, shall appoint the members of the said
road board. The said road board shall have the general supervision and
control of all the roads and bridges in Dinwiddie county, and on the part
of said county shall agree with adjoining counties and cities in regard
to the erection and maintenance of bridges between said county and
such adjoining counties and cities. It shall have authority, and it shall
be its duty, to designate the road, or parts of roads in each district of
said county to be known as main public roads, and to specify the char-
acter of improvements to be made on each road. So far as practicable,
such main public roads shall be improved in a permanent manner out
of the fund set apart under section one of this act, with such aid as
may be obtained from the State highway commission, or other State
authorities. The bridge and repair fund set apart under section two
of this act, or so much thereof as may be needed, shall be used for keep-
ing in repair the roads, or parts of roads not attempted to be perma-
nently improved, and for the erection and maintenance of bridges in
said county, or between said county and some other county or city. The
intention of this act being to encourage the building of a portion of
permanently improved roadway in said county during each year, said
board is hereby authorized to construct small sections of not less than
one-half of a mile each, in the several magisterial districts of said county,
the extension of the permanent work in each district to be gradually
and equitably made to the end that all parts of said county may (as
speedily as possible), receive a portion of the benefits of this act.

§4. The said road board shall appoint one of its members chairman,
and may appoint one of its members secretary, and shall appoint a county
superintendent of roads, who shall be a civil engineer or a person skilled
in road building, and who shall hold office during the term of one year,
receive such compensation and perform such duties as may be by said
board prescribed. Said road board shall constitute, empower and direct
the county superintendent of roads, to construct, or to have constructed
by contract, by the lowest responsible bidder, to repair, or to have re-
paired by contract by the lowest responsible bidder, all bridges in said
county, which may need to be constructed or repaired. And said board
may authorize said county superintendent of roads to let to contract to
the lowest responsible bidder the repair and maintenance, according to
plans and specifications to be prepared by him, and approved by said
road board, such roads, or parts of roads, not designated as main public
roads under section three of this act. Said county superintendent of
roads shall prepare plans and specifications for all bridges to be con-
structed or repaired by contract, but shall not let any such contract
without the approval of said road board. In all contract work said
superintendent may reject any and all bids. Said board may employ
such engineers, agents and servants as it may deem necessary, prescribe
their duties and fix their compensation, and shall have full power to
purchase machinery, teams, supplies and materials and to perform all
other things necessary to carry out the spirit of this act. It shall also
have authority to forbid the public from traveling on any road, or por-
tion of road, while the same is being built, improved or repaired; and,
after reasonable notice to the parties in interest, to remove any fences
or other. obstructions from the roads of said county, and any person
who shall attempt to interfere with said board, or its agents in the dis-
charge of such duty shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and be
fined not less than twenty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars
for each offense. All salaries, machinery, teams, supplies, and wages
for permanent work shall be paid out of the said special road fund. All
material for bridges and repair work, and all wages for labor performed
thereon, shall be paid out of the said bridge and repair fund. The
members of said board shall each receive the sum of forty dollars per year.
The secretary shall receive twenty-five dollars per year, and if he be a
member of said board this amount shall be in addition to his pay as
member. It shall be the duty of the secretary to keep a record of all
meetings of said board, and an itemized account of all expenditures
made upon the warrant of said board, and shall perform such other
clerical work as may be required by said board. A copy of said itemized
account, verified by the oaths of the chairman and secretary, shall be
filed and recorded in the clerk’s office of the circuit court of said county
upon the first day of each term thereof, and a copy posted at the front
door of the court house.

The members of said road board shall each give a bond in the penalty
of two thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful performance of the
duties of said office. And said superintendent shall give a bond in the
penalty of at least one thousand dollars for the faithful performance
of his duties.

§5. Said board may make all necessary contracts and may require
proper bonds from all contractors for the faithful performance of con-
tracts. All work and contracts shall be done and performed to the
satisfaction of said road board, and all money shall be paid by the war-
rant of said road board upon the treasurer of said county, which war-
rants shall designate the fund from which the same should be made.
The treasurer shall annually settle his accounts with said road board.

§6. The board of supervisors of said county shall annually levy, along
with the county levy, a special tax upon the property, real and personal,
assessed for taxation in said county, which, together with the county
levy received from railroad, canal, telegraph, and telephone companies,
shall constitute the road taxes of Dinwiddie county to be divided as
provided in sections one and two of this act. Said special tax shall not
be less than ten, nor more than twenty cents on every one hundred
dollars in value of such property, and shall be collected, accounted for,
and paid out as the general county levy, unless otherwise provided for by
this act.

§7. No supervisors or other public officer shall have any pecuniary
interest in any work or contract done or performed under the pro-
visions of this act, except as herein provided, except further that the
county surveyor may hold the office of county superintendent of roads.

§8. The members of the said road board and the county superin-
tendent of roads shall qualify by taking the usual oath for the faithful
performance of their duties.

§9. The governor shall have authority to furnish to the county of
Dinwiddie, upon the requisition of said county road board, convicts
whose terms of service at the time of application for them does not
exceed five years, in conformity with chapter two hundred and two, title
fifty-five of the Code of Virginia, to work on the county roads under
such regulations as the said county road board may prescribe, in con-
formity with said chapter, and on such conditions as to safe-keeping as
the governor and said board may agree upon.

§10. The road board for Dinwiddie county shall have authority con-
ferred upon the board of supervisors by the general road law, chapter
forty-three of the Code of Virginia, to relocate roads and to establish
new roads.

§11. All acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby
repealed.