Chap. 53.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 15 of an act entitled
an act to provide for the opening and working of roads and keeping
the same in repair and provide for erecting and maintaining bridges
in the county of Culpeper, approved January 25, 1898, and as amended
and re-enacted March 14, 1906, and as amended and approved February
21, 1908.

Approved February 20, 1912.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section fifteen of an act entitled an act to provide for the open-
ing and working of roads and keeping the same in repair, and
provide for erecting and maintaining bridges in the county of
Culpeper, approved January twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and
ninety-eight, and as amended and re-enacted March fourteenth,
nineteen hundred and six, and as amended and approved Feb-
ruary twenty-first, nineteen hundred and eight, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read hereafter as follows:

§15. The road board of any district may, in its discretion,
purchase teams, harness, wagons, machines, implements, tools,
camping outfits, and anything else needed for macadamizing,
building, improving and making the public roads of its district;
and it may employ a foreman and force of hands to work such
roads under the supervision of the commissioner of roads, and
according to the direction of such road board, and the road
board of the several magisterial districts, with the consent of
the board of supervisors, entered of record, are authorized and
empowered at any time previous to the first day of January,
nineteen hundred and fourteen, to borrow a sum of money not
to exceed ten thousand dollars, for the purpose of macadamiz-
ing, working, building, keeping in order and repairing the pub-
lic roads in the several districts; the said indebtedness to be
evidenced by bonds of the several districts to be sold for not
less than par, and payable not more than six years after date,
by an agent to be appointed by the board of supervisors, and to
bear six per centum interest, payable semi-annually, on the first
days of January and July of each year, the said bonds to be
signed by the chairman of the road board and countersigned by
its clerk.

The said foreman and force of hands may supplement the
work of any overseer of roads in his subdistrict, or the fore-
man may be put in entire charge of one or more subdistricts,
and no overseer be appointed for said one or more subdistricts.
In this latter case, the commissioner of roads for the district
shall, so far as the roads and bridges of said one or more sub-
districts are concerned, have the same duties, be under the same
obligations, and be liable to the same penalties as have been pre-
scribed in this act for the overseer of roads.

2. As some of the districts desire, as soon as possible, to use
money borrowed for the purpose of macadamizing, building,
improving and making public roads, therefore an emergency
exists, and this act shall take effect from its passage.