Chap. 204.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5 and 16 of an ac
entitled an act for working the roads in the county of Loudoun, ap
proved February 16, 1880, as amended and re-enacted by an act ap
proved February 2, 1894, and further amended by an act approved Apri
27, 1903. )

Approved March 15, 1910.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
five and sixteen of an act entitled an act for working the roads of th
county of Loudoun, approved. February sixteenth, eighteen hundred and
eighty, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February second,
eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and further amended by an act ap-
proved April twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and three, be amended
and re-enactd so as to read as follows:

§5. That his duties shall be to see that the roads in his district are
kept in good repair; that the bridges are in safe condition; that the
roads are kept free from obstructions; that all loose stones are removed ;
and for these purposes may employ such number of laborers, teams,
wagons and plows as may be necessary; and a just allowance shall be
made for the labor, teams, plows and other implements which may be
hired, such allowance not to exceed the current neighborhood prices paid
for like services in the community, a scale of which prices shall be pro-
vided annually, not later than April first of each year, by the respective
road boards of the several] magisterial districts, and a day’s work shall be
fixed at ten hours. He shall purchase or hire all tools and implements
necessary for working the roads, subject to the approval of the commis-
sioner of roads, and shall have the custody of the same, and shall perform
such other duties as may be prescribed by law or directed by the commis-
sioner of roads; his compensation shall be one dollar and fifty cents per
diem for each day actually employed.

§16. That the board of commissioners of roads for their respective
districts shall, annually, in the month of July of each year, lay a road
tax not exceeding fifty cents on the dollar of the amount of State revenue
and a like percentage on licenses within the district, as adjusted for the
State and county tax, and shall certify the amount necessary to be raised
to the commissioner of the revenue, and he shall extend the taxes against
all property and persons in the district levied for road purposes, a copy
of which shall be returned to the clerk’s office of the county court, and
from the said copy so returned the sheriff shall make out his books for
the collection of said tax.

2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby
repealed.