Chap. 17.—An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 2538, extra sessior
1902-3-4, of the general assembly of Virginia, entitled an act pro.
viding for the working, opening and keeping in repair the roads ir
Cumberland county, approved May 15, 1903, to increase the compensa:
tion of the supervisors of the several districts of the said county fo:
services in supervising, inspecting and looking after the work of con
structing, repairing and improving the roads and bridges of the saic
county, providing for criminals confined in the jail of the said county
to be employed on the roads of said county, and to repeal all laws ir
conflict or inconsistent with this act. (H. B. 34.)

Approved February 9, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
chapter two hundred and fifty-three, acts of session nineteen
hundred and two, three, four, entitled an act providing for the
working, opening and keeping in repair the roads in Cumber.
land county, approved May fifteenth, nineteen hundred anc
three, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
Chapter 253. That all of the public roads of the county of
Cumberland shall be under the direction, care, control and su-
pervision of the board of supervisors of the said county.

And it shall be the duty of the said board of supervisors of
the said county to see that the county road funds are economi-
cally, usefully and intelligently expended; to establish rules for
making, altering, repairing and maintaining the roads of said
county as provided by law; to provide for the erection and main-
tenance of suitable and necessary bridges and to exercise a
general supervision over all of the roads and bridges of the
sald county. -

The board of supervisors of the said county shall annually
levy along with the county levy a tax upon the property, real
and personal, assessed for taxation in the county, which shall
be applied to working, and keeping in order the public roads
and bridges of the said county, as provided by law; such tax
shall not be less than five nor more than thirty cents on the one
hundred dollars in value of such property, and the same shall
be collected and accounted for and paid out on warrants of the
said board of supervisors as are other county funds; provided,
that said board of supervisors shall not be prevented from ap-
plying to the road fund any money not needed to defray the
ordinary expenses of the county.

‘’he 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 compensa-
tion 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.

2. All acts inconsistent or in conflict with the provisions
of this act are hereby repealed.