Chap. 328.—An ACT to amend and re-enact the act approved March 14, 1904,
entitled an act to provide a road law for Appomattox county, and to repeal all
acts in conflict therewith

Approved March 14, 1908.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the act
approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred and four, entitled an act
to provide a road law for Appomattox county, and to repeal all acts in
conflict therewith, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

That for each magisterial district in the county of Appomattox there
is hereby created and established a road board, consisting of the super-
visor (who shall be chairman of said board), a road commissioner, and
one of the justices of the peace, or a freeholder who is a qualified voter,
of such district (who shall be designated by the judge of the circuit
court and who shall be the clerk of said board), which board shall have
exclusive control and charge of the roads and bridges of such district.

2. That the road commissioners elected on the Tuesday after the first
Monday in November, nineteen hundred and seven, shall hold office for
four years from the first day of January, nineteen hundred and eight.
Their successors, who shall be free-holders, shall be elected by the
qualified voters of the district in which they reside on the Tuesday after
the first Monday in November, nineteen hundred and eleven, and every
four years thereafter, and shall hold office for four years from the first
day of January next succeeding their election.

3. The road commissioner and the justice of the peace (or free-
holder as the case may be), designated as aforesaid, shall qualify in
like manner as other district officers, and the road commissioner shall,
at the time of his qualification give bond with approved security in the
penalty of not less than one thousand dollars for the faithful discharge
of his duties.

4. It shall be the duty of the road boards to have worked and kept in
repair the roads and bridges of the several districts by adopting such
Tules, specifications, and regulations as they may deem proper, expedient,
and necessary. Said board shall have authority to let contracts, employ
hands, purchase or hire machinery, teams, and tools as they may deem
wise.

5. The board of supervisors of Appomattox county shall annually
levy, at the time of making the county levy, a road tax upon the property,
real and personal, assessed for taxation in the several magisterial dis-
tricts of said county, which shall be applied to the working, keeping in
order, and repairing the public roads in such district. Such tax shall
not be more than forty cents on the one hundred dollars worth of such
property, and the same shall be collected in the same manner as if it
were a county levy. The fund collected from each magisterial district
shall be kept separate by the treasurer, and a different rate of tax may
be prescribed for the different districts of said county. The amount
collected in each district shall be expended therein, and shall be paid
out by the treasurer upon the warrants of the district boards, signed
by the clerk of such board and countersigned by the chairman, and on
the face of each warrant it shall be stated specifically for what it is
drawn.

The board of supervisors shall, also, have authority to apportion
among the several districts the capitation tax of fifty cents on every
male citizen over twenty-one years of age, apportioning to each district
the proportion of said capitation tax collected therein.

No member of the road board shall be directly or indirectly interested
in any contract or purchase made by said board, and no warrant shall
be drawn by said board in favor of one of the members thereof, or to
any person for his benefit, except for salary as hereinafter provided,
and the payment of any warrant drawn contrary to this act shall be re-
fused by the treasurer.

6. It shall be the duty of the road commissioner to annually go over
and carefully examine all the public roads of his district prior to the
working of the same, and all road working and repairing in his district
shall be under his personal supervision and direction as the representa-
tive of the district board.

The said road commissioner shall receive for his services such sum
as shall be prescribed by the district board, not to exceed the rate of
two dollars per day for the time he shall be actually employed in the
discharge of his duties; provided, that he shall not receive more than
one hundred and fifty dollars for his services in any one year. The
clerk of each of said district boards shall be paid such sum for his ser-
vices as the board may prescribe not to exceed twenty-five dollars per
year and the supervisor shall receive for his services as a member of such
board the sum of fifteen dollars.

%. Annually in the month of June when the treasurer settles with the
board of supervisors, the several road boards of Appomattox shall meet
the treasurer at the county clerk’s office and he shall account to each of
said boards for the road fund collected by him for their respective dis-
tricts, and shall turn in to the respective boards all warrants paid by
him, taking credit thereby, and shall furnish a statement to each of said
boards showing the balance, if any, in his hands at the time of such
settlement to the credit of such board of the fund collected by him.

8. It shall be the duty of each road board to have kept by its clerk a
record of all the proceedings of said board and an account of all sums
paid out, to whom paid and for what purpose, which record and account
shall be annually submitted to the board of supervisors at its June meet-
ing aforesaid to be examined by them, and a statement of all disburse-
ments showing the amounts paid, to whom paid and for what purpose,
shall at the same time be filed with the clerk of the board of supervisors,
together with a copy of their settlement sheet showing their settlement
with the county treasurer. The statement of disbursements so filed
shall be published by the board of supervisors along with its annual
statement as required by law.

9. The opening of all new roads and all changes in roads, and the
building and repairing of all bridges, except when the cost of such
bridge building or repairing does not exceed ten dollars, shall be done
as provided by the general statute law of Virginia. The building and
repairing of all bridges, the cost of which does not exceed ten dollars,
shall be done by the road board of the district in which it is located
and paid for out of the district fund.

10. All former acts providing road laws for Appomattox county and
all acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith are hereby repealed.

11. Inasmuch as the time for working the roads of the county com-
mences early in the spring of the year, and in view of the emergency
existing by reason thereof, this act shall be in force from its passage.