CHAP. 20.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled
an act to amend and re-enact an act to amend and re-enact an act
entitled an act to establish a feneral road fund for the permanent
improvement of roads and bridges in Dinwiddie county, to create a
road board for Dinwiddie county, and to prescribe its powers and
duties and to provide for the appointment of a county superintendent
of roads, and to regulate his duties, approved March 8, 1904; as
amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 16, 1906; as
amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 12, 1908; as
amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 10, 1910; as
amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 4, 1912.

(H. B. 37.)
Approved February 9, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section four, an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act
to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-
enact an act entitled an act to establish a general road fund
for the permanent improvement of roads and bridges in Din-
widdie county, to create a road board for Dinwiddie county,
and to prescribe its powers and duties and to provide for the
appointment of county superintendent of roads, and to regulate
his duties, approved March eighth, nineteen hundred and four;
as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March sixteenth,
nineteen hundred and six; as amended and re-enacted by an act
approved March twelfth, nineteen hundred and eight; as
amended and re-enacted by an act approved March tenth, nine-
teen hundred and ten; as amended and re-enacted by an act ap-
proved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred and twelve, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 4. The road board shall appoint one of its members
chairman and may appoint one of its members secretary. Said
board shall be empowered to construct or have constructed ‘by
contract by the lowest responsible bidder, to repair or have re-
paired by contract by the lowest responsible bidder, all bridges
in said county which may need‘to be constructed or repaired,
and said board may let to contract to the lowest responsible
bidder the repair and maintenance according to plans and speci-
fications to be prepared by said board, such roads or parts of
roads not designated as main public roads under section three
of this act. Said board shall have prepared plans and specifica-
tions for all bridges to be constructed and repaired by contract,
and may reject any and all bids.

Said board may employ a civil engineer for such time as
said board may deem necessary, who shall be paid for such ser-
vices as may be required of him five dollars per day for each
day he is actually employed, not exceeding a total of two hun-
dred and fifty dollars in any one year; and shall have full power
to purchase machinery, teams, supplies and materials, and per-
form all other things necessary to carry out the provisions of
this act. It shall also have authority to prevent the pubiic from
travelling on any road, or portion of road, while the same is
being built, improved or repaired, and after reasonable notice
to the parties in interest to remove any fences or other obstruc-
tions to the roads of said county, and any person who shall at-
tempt to interfere with said board, or its agent, in the discharge
of such duty shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and
be fined not less than twenty ($20) dollars nor more than one
hundred ($100) dollars for each offense. If tne beds of the
public roads of the county be encroached upon, or the necessary
water drains be destroyed or obstructed by persons cultivating,
on either side of the road, it shall be the duty of the member of
the road board of that district to notify the person so trespassing
by written or personal notice, to repair the damage or remove
the obstruction, and if the same is not done within ten (10) days
after notice, such Obstruction shall be removed or damage re-
paired, and the road board may recover the expense, with cost,
before any magistrate of the county. All salaries, machinery,
teams and supplies and wages for permanent work shall be paid
out of the said special road fund. All material for bridges and
repair work and all labor performed thereon, shall be paid out
of the said bridge and repair fund. The members of said board
shall each receive the sum of forty ($40) dollars per year. The
secretary shall receive twenty-five ($25) dollars per year, and
if he be a member of said board, this amount shall be in addi-
tion to his pay as member. In addition to the above named
salary, the members of the board other than the chairman, may
receive the sum of two ($2) dollars per day for actual inspection
of the roads of their respective districts, returns of. said inspec-
tion to be made in writing, roads inspected named and any recom-
mendation deemed proper made, but in no case shall the sum
paid for inspection exceed the sum of thirty-five ($35) dollars
per ahnum in any one district. It shall be the duty of the secre-
tary to keep a record of all the meetings of said board, and an
itemized account of all expenditures made upon the warrant of
said board, and shall perform’such other clerical work as may
be required by said board; a copy of said itemized account veri-
fied by the oaths of the chairman and secretary, shall be filed
and recorded in the clerk’s office of the circuit court of said
county upon the first day of each term thereof, and a copy posted
at the front door of the courthouse, and at each voting precinct
in the county. The members of said road board shall each give
a bond in the penalty of two thousand ($2,000) dollars, condi-
tioned for the faithful performance of their duties of said offices.

2. It being necessary that the provisions of this act be
immediately effective, an emergency existing, it is ordered that
this act be in force from its passage.