Chap. 174.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 4, 1896,
entitled an act providing for the working, opening and keeping in repair
the roads of the county of Lunenburg, and for building and keeping in
repair the bridges of said county, except that an amendment to said act
known as section 14-a, providing for submitting to the qualified voters
of the several magisterial districts in Lunenburg county the question as
to the issuance of bonds by such magisterial district for the construc-
tion and repair of public roads in said magisterial district, which said
amendment was approved March 12, 1912, is not to be affected hereby.

(H. B. 408.)
Approved March 21, 1914.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
an act approved March fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six,
entitled an act providing for the working, opening, and keeping
in repair the roads of the county of Lunenburg, and for building
and keeping in repair the bridges of the said county, except an
amendment to the said act known as section fourteen-a providing
for submitting to the qualified voters of the several magisterial
districts in Lunenburg county, the question as to the issuance of
bonds by such magisterial district for the construction and repair
of public roads in said magisterial districts, which said amend-
ment was approved March twelfth, nineteen hundred and twelve,
and which said amendment is not to be affected hereby, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

1. The present county road force is hereby abolished, and
evch magisterial district of the county shall maintain its own
force, teams and implements.

2. There shall be a road board in each magisterial district
composed of the supervisor of the district and two commissioner:
of roads, who shall be elected by the people, at the same time that
the supervisors of the county are elected, and shall hold office for
four years; and shall have all the rights, powers and authority
as are given to the superintendents of roads under the general
laws of the State; provided, however, that the first commissioners
of roads to act under the provisions of this act shall be appointed
by the judge of the circuit court of Lunenburg county, in term
time, and shall receive the same pay as is allowed to a supervisor;
but the salary of the district road commissioners shall not exceed
the sum of fifty dollars per year each. All road commissioners
appointed or elected under this act shall give a bond in the penalty
of five hundred dollars for the faithful performance of their
duties as said road commissioners, which said bond shall be
approved by the judge of the circuit court in term time or
vacation.

3. The county levy for road purposes assessed upon all the
property in the district shall not exceed the sum of twenty cents
on the one hundred dollars’ worth of property, and shall be at the
disposal of the district road board in each district for the construc-
tion and maintenance of the roads of the district in which it is
levied, except such revenue as is derived from the county levy on
railroad property, which revenue from railroad property shall ‘be
prorated equally among the several districts of the county. ‘11
teams, tools, and implements now belonging to the county and
used for road purposes shall be sold, and the amount of money

- thus realized, together with all sums of money now in the treasury

for road purposes, shall be prorated by the county board of super-
visors among the several districts of the county in proportion to
their present assessed valuation of taxable property.

4. It shall be the duty of the district ‘road board to make out
an estimate of the amount of money necessary to properly work
the roads of the district, and if it is found that the funds arising
from the county road tax is not sufficient to keep the roads of the
district in good repair, then the board of supervisors shall levy

a district road tax on all of the property of the district, so as to
increase the amount of revenue to ‘the estimated sum as stated by
the district road board. No part of this district tax for road
purposes shall be prorated among the other districts of the county,
and the district tax for road purposes shall not exceed the sum of
fifty cents on the one ‘hundred dollars’ worth of property in the
district.

5. The funds from both the county and the district ‘levies
shall be collected and held by the county treasurer subject to the
check, draft or warrant of the district road board.

6. Each check, draft or warrant issued by the district road
board upon the treasurer shall be signed by at least two members
of the district road board, and shall state to whom it is given and
for what services it is paid.

On the first Monday in July and the first Monday in
January of each year the district road boards provided for in this
act shall meet the county treasurer at the courthouse and have a
settlement, at which said time the board of supervisors of the
county shall examine all accounts and vouchers, and see that the
accounts of the several district road boards are correct, and shall
make record of the same.

8. Nothing in this act shall be construed so as to nullify or
affect the laws governing bonds issued, or to be issued, for improved
road construction.

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

10. An emergency existing, this act is hereby declared an
emergency act, and shall go into effect from its passage.