Chap. 29.—An ACT to amend section 11 of an act entitled an act to establish
a State highway commission, to define its powers and duties; the term
of office, salary, and qualifications of the commissioner; to authorize the
commissioner to call into consultation the professors of engineering
in certain State institutions, and appropriating money to carry the
provisions of this act into effect, approved March 6, 1906. (H. B. 13.)

Approved March 2, 1914.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section eleven of an act entitled an act to establish a State high-
way commission, to define its powers and duties; the term of office,
salary and qualifications of the commissioner; to authorize the com-
missioner to call into consultation the professors of engineering in
certain State institutions, and appropriating money to carry the
provisions of this act into effect, approved March sixth, nineteen
hundred and six, be amended to read as follows:

11. The State highway commissioner, as far as practicable, shall
give equal service to each county of the State desiring to accept the
benefits of this act, and to insure such equitable distribution the
State highway commissioner shall not keep a force of convicts in
one county longer than five (5) continuous years after the passage
of this act if there are applications pending from other countie.
which have not had the benefit of convict labor aid. The State
highway commissioner shall have the authority to withdraw a
convict force from any county or to withold and reapportion its
share of State money aid, if after six months notice in writing
from him, or his representative, the county authorities fail to main-
tain or repair the roads previously built by any form of State aid
in a manner to be approved by said State highway commissioner
and the board of supervisors of the county affected.