CHAP. 209.—An ACT to provide a road commission for Capeville magisteria)
district, in Northampton county, and to repeal] previous acts.

(H. B. 164.)
Approved March 24, 1914.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
= there is hereby established for Capeville magisterial district, in
~ the county of Northampton, a district road board, consisting of R.
: D. Stevenson, George I’. Parramore, Marrion Scott, Preston Scott,
Kemper Goiligan, Ruric Nottingham, W. W. Dixon, and C. F
Wilson, which board shall have exclusive control of ail roads and
bridges within the limits of said district, and taxes levied for
* road services and for building and repairing bridges shall be
expended within the said district, that is to say, that the taxes
* levied in the said magisterial district for road purposes shall be
« expended in said district, including its share ot the county levy
(; for road purposes.
7 2. Upon said board meeting and organizing, the said com-
missioners shall at once select a chairman, clerk and treasurer.
i+ ‘Lhe last two shall be one, whose accounts shall be audited by said
+ board and certified by said board to the board ot supervisors once
+ a year and published once each year. ‘Lhe said commissioners shall
reside in the said district during their term of ottice, and upon
removal therefrom their successor shall be selected in the manner
hereinafter provided.

in the event of the death, resignation, or leaving the district
as his residence, his successor shall be selected by the survivors;
provided when the money borrowed under this act shall have been
repaid, that the powers and duties of said commissioners and
their successors shall thereupon cease and determine, and the State
road law for such purposes shall become ettective.

3. Said board hereby provided for shall be a body corporate,
and shall be known and designated as the board of road commis-
sioners of Capeville magisterial district of Northampton county,
and as such shall have the right to contract and be contracted
with, sue and be sued.

4. ‘The commissioners selected under this act shall qualify
before the clerk of the circuit court, and in the manner provided
by law for the qualification of magisterial district. officers, and
the treasurer shall, at the time of his qualification, and before he
enters upon the discharge of his duties, give bond for the faithful
performance of his duties, with security in the sum of ten thou-
sand dollars, by a guarantee company; the premiums to be paid
out of the road fund, and shall receive one percentum commission
on all moneys coming into his hands in full compensation for his
services for receiving and disbursing all funds that may come into
his hands as such treasurer.

5. That the board of supervisors of Northampton county be,
and it is, hereby authorized and required, from time to time, to
borrow such funds or sums of money as said board shall request
it to do so, that the total amount borrowed shall not exceed twenty
thousand dollars; the said sum or sums so borrowed to be used
for the purpose of building, improving, and maintaining the public
roads in said district.

6. The said loans shall be effected under the general statute
providing for the issuing of county bonds for permanent road
and bridge improvement in the magisterial districts for the
counties of the State; provided, however, that no such bonds shall
be issued except upon approval of a majority of the voters voting
at an election to be held as hereinafter directed. Such approval
or non-approval, as the case may be, shall be ascertained in an
election to be held for that purpose upon an order of the circuit
court of said county, or the judge thereof in vacation, at same
time within sixty days after the enactment hereof. Said election
to be held upon thirty, days’ notice thereof, duly posted at the door
of the courthouse of said county, and at the voting precincts in
said district. Said elections shall be conducted in the same manner
and by the same election officers of such districts who conducted
the general election next preceding the same.

7. The ballots to be used in said election shall be prepared as
are ballots for other general elections, and shall contain the
words “for the issue of bonds for public road improvements in
Capeville magisterial district,” and “against the issue of bonds for
public road improvements in Capeville magisterial district,” and
if upon the canvass of the ballots cast it shall be found that a
majority of those voting were in favor of issuing the bonds for
road improvement, the fact shall be so reported as on the results of
other general elections, and the board of supervisors, upon receipt
of notice of such results, shall proceed immediately to prepare,
execute, and negotiate such bonds from time to time as <said
commissioners may request it to do.

8. The clerk and treasurer of said road board shall keep a
complete and accurate record of all proceedings of said board, and
the moneys received and expended by the said board, and shall in
June and December of each year cause to be published in the
newspapers of said county a statement showing all receipts and
disbursements of said board for the preceding six months; the said
board shall meet at some convenient place in said district, or in
the town of Cape Charles, and for their services in attendance
upon said meeting, the members thereof in actual attendance shall
receive a per diem of four dollars, but the members of said board
shall not receive pay for more than twelve meetings in any one
year. The said board is hereby authorized and empowered to
adopt such methods and materials as in their judgment may seem
best suited for the requirements of their district, employ such
engineers, road builders, and operators upon such terms as to them
~may seem fit and reasonable, and proper regulations as to location,
“construction and maintenance of the roads in said district.

9. After issuing the bonds, or any of them, provided for in
this act, when the first levy is made by the board of supervisors,
tax shall be levied on all property liable to State taxes in said
district to pay the interest on the bonds so issued and to create a
“sinking fund to redeem the principal thereof at maturity, and from
‘ year to year such levy shall on said property in said district until
‘said debt together with the interest thereon, is paid; provided,
“that in no year shall said road levy exceed twenty-five cents on the
-one hundred dollars’ worth of property, and shall annually report
“to the board of supervisors.

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

+ repealed. ‘
“ 11. An emergency arising by reason of the importance of the
“immediate execution of the provisions of this act, the same shall

“be in force from its passage.
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