CHAP. 286.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 848 of the Code of
Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to the compensation of

supervisors. (H. B. 98.)
Approved March 18, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section eight hundred and forty-eigl:t of the Code of Virginia,
as amended by an act approved March twenty-fourth, nineteen
hundred and fourteen, be amended and re-enacted so as to read
as follows:

Sec. 848. Compensation of supervisors.—Each member of
the board of supervisors shall be allowed, and paid out of the
county levy, a compensation for his services in attending the
meetings of the board and in discharging such other duties as
may be imposed upon him by law at a rate of four dollars per
diem for the time he shall be actually so employed, and five cents
for each mile of travel in going to and returning from the place
of meeting of said board, but no per diem allowance shall be
made for any time occupied in traveling where mileage is allowed
therefor; provided, that but one mileage shall be allowed for
any one term of meeting of such board; provided further, that
no supervisor shall draw pay for more than eighteen days in
counties of ten thousand population and less, except that super-
visors in the county of Dickenson may draw pay for not more
than twenty-five days, nor shall he draw pay for more than
twenty-five days in counties of more than ten thousand and less
then thirty thousand population, nor shall he draw pay for more
than thirty days in counties of thirty thousand population and
not over forty thousand, and counties of over forty thousand
population he shall draw pay for not more than forty days in
any one year; provided, further, that the provisions of this act
shall not prevent supervisors in the counties which have special
road laws from receiving additional compensation for services
in connection with road work done under said special road laws
now existing, or as hereafter amended; provided, such compen-
sation be allowed in such special road law; and provided, fur-
ther, that nothing in this act shall allow a member of the board
of supervisors to draw pay on the same day for services as
supervisor and as inspector or commissioner of roads or con-
struction of bridges; provided, the supervisors of Henrico
county, with the consent of the circuit court of the said county,
may receive as much as three hundred dollars each per annum,
and the supervisors of Chesterfield county, with the consent of
the circuit court of said county, may receive as much as two
hundred dollars each per annum, and mileage as above provided;
provided further, that each member of the board of supervisors
of Stafford, King George, Isle of Wight, Nansemond, Prince
Edward, Prince William, Northampton, James City, New Kent,
Hanover, Gloucester, Culpeper, Shenandoah, Scott and Russell
counties may be paid as compensation for his services in the
supervision of the opening and repair of the public roads or
construction of bridges of said counties not exceeding three
dollars per diem for the time he shall be necessarily so employed;
provided that no supervisor shall receive for such services com-
pensation to exceed one hundred dollars per annum, in addition
to the amount allowed by law for other services.

Provided, that any supervisor of Orange county may act as
road commissioner for his district and shall be paid for his ser-
vices not exceeding one dollar and fifty cents per day, but the
entire compensation shall not exceed three hundred dollars per
annum and this shall apply only to districts having a road fund
which does not exceed two thousand dollars.

2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are
hereby repealed.