Chap. 17.—An ACT to provide a road board for Capeville magisterial district
in Northampton county, to authorize the board of supervisors of North-
ampton county, to borrow money for road purposes in Capeville district
and to repeal previous acts. (H. B. 13)

Approved February 5, 1915.

1st. 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
F. Parramore, Marion Scott, Preston Scott, Kemper Koffigan and M.
S. Wilson, which board shall have exclusive control of all roads and
bridges within the limits of said district, and taxes levied for road pur-
poses and for building and repairing bridges shall be expended within
the said district, that is to say, that the road taxes levied in the said
magisterial district for road purposes shall be expended in said district
and its share of the county levy for road purposes, as far as practicable.

end. The members of road board provided for in this act shall hold
office for two (2), four (4), and six (6) years from the time of their
appointment in the order named, so that two shall be elected by the
qualified voters of the said district at the regular November election when
other county officers are elected, so that the term of service of two (2)
of the members shall expire the first (1st) day of January, nineteen
hundred and eighteen, two on the first day of January, nineteen hundred
and twenty and two on the first day of January, nineteen hundred and
twenty-two, and thereafter their term of office shall be six (6) years
each. Upon said board meeting and organizing the said commissioners
shall at once select a chairman, clerk and treasurer. The last two
shall be one whose accounts shall be audited by said board and certified
by said board to the board of supervisors, once a year and published once
each year. The said commissioners shall reside in the said district during
their term of office and upon removal therefrom their successor shall be
selected in the manner hereinafter provided. |

38rd. Said board hereby provided for shall be a body corporate and
shall be known and designated as the board of road commissioners of
Capeville magisterial district of Northampton county, and as such shall
have the right to contract and be contracted with, sue and be sued.

4th. 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 thousand ($10,000.00) dollars, by a guarantee
company; the premiums to be paid out of the road fund, and shall re-
ceive one per centum 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.

5th. That the board of supervisors of Northampton county be, and
it is hereby authorized and required, from time to time, to borrow such
sums or funds 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, im-
proving and maintaining the public roads in said district.

6th. The said loans shall be effected under the general statute pro-
viding 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 ap-
proval of a majority of the voters voting at an election to be held as here-
inafter 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
some time within ninety days after the enactment hereof. Said election
to be held upon thirty days’ notice thereof, duly posted at the door of the
court house 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.

7th. 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 magis-
terial district” and “Against the issue of bonds for public road improve-
ment 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 im-
mediately to prepare, execute and negotiate such bonds from time to time
as said commissioners may request it to do. |

8th. The clerk and treasurer of said road board shall keep a com-
plete and accurate record of all proceedings of said board and the moneys
received and expended by the said board and shall in December of each
year cause to be published in the newspapers of said county a state-
ment showing all receipts and disbursements of said board for the pre-
ceding twelve months; the said board shall meet at some convenient
place in said district or in the town of Cape Charles, and for their ser-
vices 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 build-
ers and operators upon such terms as to them may seem fit and reason-
able and proper regulations as to location, construction and maintenance
of the roads in said district.

9th. 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
be laid 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 prop-
erty, and shall annually report to the board of supervisors.

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

11th. An emergency arising by reason of the importance of the im-
mediate execution of the provisions of this act, the same shall be in force
from its passage.