Chap. 150.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act for
working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges in the
county of Buckingham, and to levy a capitation tax in connection
therewith, approved March 15, 1904, so as to read as tO B 78)

Approved March 11, 1916. a

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
in and for the county of Buckingham, the board of supervisors
is hereby made and constituted a road board, and as such shall
have worked and kept in repair the public roads and bridges of
the said county, by adopting such rules, specifications, and regu-
lations as they may deem proper, expedient and necessary.

The said board of supervisors shall levy (when it makes
its annual levy) a road tax not to exceed the maximum amount
allowed by law on the one hundred dollars’ worth of real and
personal property, to be collected by the treasurer, and to be
appropriated for general road purposes, and shall have the right
to make the rate of tax on each one hundred dollars’ worth of
property. different in each magisterial district in said county,
and the said board is authorized to levy a capitation tax of fifty
cents on every male citizen of said county over the age of twenty-
one years, to be appropriated for such purposes as prescribed
by section one hundred and seventy-three of the Constitution,
along with the said property tax, as allowed under the Constitu-
tion of the State, to be likewise collected by said county treas-
urer; provided, that the said fund collected in each magisterial
district in said county may be kept separate and apart by the
county treasurer at the option, and by the direction of the said
board of supervisors, and in such case, the fund thus collected
shall be applied to the working of and keeping in repair the
roads and bridges in such district. Such boards shall have
authority to employ hands, purchase or hire machinery, teams,
tools, and so forth, as the said board may deem wise. Said board
of supervisors may work all male inmates (who have been con-
victed of a misdemeanor) in the jail of said county, and may
cause all fines unpaid to be paid in work on the said public
roads at the rate of fifty cents per day for such service;
may make such arrangements as they may deem best with the
State authorities for the working of convicts on the said roads.

The members of the said board of supervisors shall each
receive for his services in supervising, inspecting and overlook-
ing the roads in his respective district three dollars per day
for the time actually employed, provided the total compensation
does not exceed one hundred dollars for any one year to each
member of the said board. Accounts for such services shall be
itemized and sworn to.

4. The clerk of the county court of said county shall per-
form the duties of clerk of said board, and shall receive for his
services such sum as said board may deem right and proper.

All acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby
repealed.