Chap. 151.—An ACT to amend the special road law for Rockbridge county
in act approved March 15, 1906, by amending and re-enacting sections
3, 5, 8, 11, 12, 18 and 17 thereof, and by adding three new sections
thereto enumerated as sections 20, 21, and 22 thereof. [H B 190]

Approved March 13, 1918.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
special road law for Rockbridge county contained in the act of said
general assembly, approved March fifteen, nineteen hundred and
six, acts of nineteen hundred and six, pages four hundred and
eighty-five, et sequiter, be and the same is hereby amended by the
amendment and re-enactment of sections three, five, eight, eleven,
twelve, thirteen and seventeen of said act, and by the addition
thereto of sections numbers twenty-one and twenty-two, so that said
sections so amended and re-enacted and added shall read as follows:

Section 3. The clerks and treasurers of the boards of road com-
missioners shall each qualify and give bond, before the circuit court.
in a penalty of not less than double the amount of any sum that is
likely to be in their hands at any one time, and with security to be
approved by the court; such bonds to be executed before the first
day of January succeeding their election. It shall be their duty to
keep all books, papers, and records of the board, and to receive and

ay all moneys, as the board of road commissioners may direct or the
fai may prescribe. They shall settle with the board of road com-
missioners in the months of January and July of each year, and shall
account for all money received by them as such treasurers from an
source whatever. The clerk of the board of road commissioners shall
annually, in the month of July of each year, make a report to the
board of supervisors, as follows:

First. The amount of money received by the district from the
county at large for road purposes.

Second. The amount realized from district taxation for road
purposes.

Third. How the same was expended—classifying the expendi-
tures as follows: For opening new roads, for repairing roads, for
implements purchased, for labor and teams, for material, and for
applying labor and material.

Section 5. It shall be the duty of the board of supervisors,
upon the coming in of the estimates of the boards of road com-
missioners, to levy a specific road tax, not exceeding fifty cents on
every one hundred dollars of the value of all real and personal
property in each district. This tax shall be assessed by the com-
missioners of the revenue and collected by the county treasurer as
other taxes are assessed and collected, and used by the several boards
of road commissioners in opening new roads, building bridges, and
repairing roads and bridges.

Section 8. The boards of road commissioners shall annually, in
the month of July of each year, audit, adjust, and settle their re-
spective accounts with the county treasurer for the preceding year.
They shall charge the treasurer with the full amount of road tax
levied in their district, and the amount of money apportioned thereto
by the board of supervisors, and shall credit him by his commissions,
delinquents and all payments made by him on warrants for which
he has the proper receipt.

Section 11. In opening new roads and building bridges costin
less than three hundred dollars, or in repairing bridges, such work
may be done by contract or otherwise. If by contract the board of
road commissioners may prescribe such regulations and take such
bonds and security of contractors as may be deemed wise and best;
but in building bridges costing three hundred dollars or more, and
in repairs to bridges costing two hundred dollars or more the general
statutes in such cases made and provided shall apply.

Section 12. The board of road commissioners of each magisterial
district shall, from time to time, prescribe and note upon the record
of their proceedings such plans, specifications, restrictions, and di-
rections as they deem best for the working, keeping in order and re-
pairing the roads and bridges in the county, including any special
plans, specifications, restrictions, or directions which they ‘may pre-
scribe for particular roads or bridges, and they shall from time to
time fix the price to be allowed and paid for the hire of foremen or
overseers, hands, teams, plows, and other implements used on the
public roads.

Section 13. It shall be the duty of each supervisor to keep him-
self informed as to the condition of the public roads and bridges in
his magisterial district, the manner in which they are worked and
kept in repair, and whether or not the road commissioner of his
district has fully performed his duty; and in addition to the in-
formation incidentally received by him, he shall carefully inspect all
the roads and bridges in his district at least once during the year,
one of which inspections shall be in the month of October of each
year, and report in writing to the board of supervisors on the first
Monday in December of each year their condition, whether or not
there has been any general improvement over the preceding year, and
if the road commissioner has faithfully and judiciously discharged
his duty.

Section 17. The pay of officers for services shall be as follows:
The supervisor, clerk of board of road commissioners and road com-
missioner shall each receive three dollars per day for each meeting
of the board of road commissioners, not to exceed ten meetings in
any one year; and the clerk of said board shall receive three dollars
per day, and not exceeding fifty dollars in any one year, for all
other services which he may perform; the road commissioner, for
locating and opening new roads, and for all other services rendered,
three dollars per day, not to exceed fifty dollars in Lexington dis-
trict, one hundred dollars each in Buffalo and Kerr’s creek districts,
and one hundred and fifty dollars in Natural Bridge district, and
one hundred and twenty dollars each in Walker’s creek and South
river districts in any year; supervisors, for examining roads and
bridges and making annual reports of the condition of the same and
other work, three dollars per day; the viewers, for locating roads,
and the commissioncrs, for assessing land damages, three dollars
each per day; surveyors, three dollars per day, and chain carriers
one dollar and seventy-five cents per day each, all of which shall
be paid by the county treasurer out of the county road fund, on
warrants issued by the board of supervisors on itemized accounts,
sworn to. And such oflicers as are required to make reports shall
not receive their pay until such reports are made and filed.

Section 20. Said board of supervisors is authorized, in its dis-
cretion, by ordinance, to establish the office of county superintendent
of roads for said county, and to fill the same by the election of a
man who is a civil engineer, well versed in practical road building,
and competent to establish grades, and to conduct the office of county
road superintendent. ‘he powers and duties of such county road
superintendent, his term of office, oath, bond and qualifications, shall
be those which are now, or which may hereafter be prescribed by
law in respect to county superintendents of roads.

Any such ordinance shall be published for four successive weeks
in some newspaper or newspapers published in said county before it
shall become effective.

Section 21. Said board of supervisors is further authorized and
empowered to adopt for said county any special road law which may
have been, or may hereafter be enacted, for any county or counties
of this State, or any specific sections or provisions of any such road
law, or any section or provision of any general road law enacted
for the construction, improvement aud maintenance of the public
roads in the counties of the Commonwealth, generally—and shall
cause any ordinance adopting any such road law, or section, or
provision thereof, to be published for four weeks in some newspaper
or newspapers published in said county, and when such ordinance
shall have been so published, it shall have the force and effect of law.

The certificate of the publisher of any such newspaper, filed with
the clerk of the board of supervisors, shall be evidence that any re-
quirements of this act, as to the publication of any ordinance has
been complied with.

Section 22. Said board of supervisors is authorized to pay the
clerk of said board for lis services, as such clerk, in connection with
roads, and the legislature in regard thereto, and for his services
generally, as the clerk thereof, a salary of not exceeding one hun-
dred and twenty dollars per annum.

9, As the time for working the public roads of the county com-
mences in the spring of the year, an emergency exists by reason there-
of, and this act shall be in force from its passage.