Chap. 302.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 20,
1896, entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in repair the
public roads of Buchanan and Dickenson counties, as amended by act
approved February 9, 1916, so as to provide how the board of supervis-
ors of Buchanan county may establish, change and relocate roads in that
county and contract for the construction of same, on terms and condi-
tions. [H B 258]

Approved March 16, 1918.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an
act entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in repair
the public roads of Buchanan and Dickenson counties, approved
February twentieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, as amended
by act approved February ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That in and for the counties of Buchanan and Dickenson the board
of supervisors of the respective counties are hereby made and con-
stituted a road board of their respective counties, and as such
shall have worked and kept in repair the public roads of their re-
spective counties by adopting such rules and regulations as they
may deem proper, expedient and necessary; and shall have power
to establish, construct, build and maintain such new roads and land-
ings, bridges and culverts as they may deem proper or necessary.

Sec. 2. The said board is empowered and authorized in the
county of Buchanan to levy a road tax of not exceeding fifty cents
on the one hundred dollars’ worth of property for each year; and
the said board is empowered and authorized to levy a road tax of
not exceeding fifty cents on the one hundred dollars’ worth of prop-
erty for each year in the county of Dickenson, and may lay another
levy for each magisterial district in the county of Dickenson, if
it so desire, so the same does not exceed in any district twenty
cents on each one hundred dollars’ worth of property for each year.

For each year said levy shall be made at the time when the
annual county levies are made, said road levy to be collected and
accounted for by the county treasurer.

Sec. 3. The said road board shall meet at such times as they
deem proper to carry out the provisions of this act, and be paid
the same fees now allowed supervisors in said counties, provided
that said board shall not be paid for more than ten days for any
one year under the provisions of this act.

Sec. 4. The clerk of the circwit court for the respective coun-
ties shall perform the duties of clerk of the said board, and shall
receive for his services such sum as said board may deem right and

roper.

° Sec 5. That the board of supervisors of Buchanan county, with-
in three years from the passage of this act, shall have the power
to contract with any person, firm or corporation for the construc-
tion of such public roads as said board shall see fit to establish on
the Russells fork river and its tributaries, Gordon creek and its
tributaries, and Big Prater creek, and its tributaries in said county,
or for the construction of such roads, or parts of roads, on either
of said streams and tributaries, heretofore established, as said board
shall see fit to change, relocate, or improve, and as compensation, in
whole or in part, for the construction of such roads, the board of
supervisors shall have the power to contract with such person, firm
or corporation so constructing same, for the exclusive use of said
roads, or the location or relocation of same, during the period of
construction. Provided, however, that said board shall not enter
into a contract for the construction of any road that will extend for
a period of more than fifteen years; and provided, further that
where the road is changed, or relocated in whole or in part, the
board, during the period of construction, shall keep open for the
use of the public, a suitable and convenient passway equally as good
as that part of said road heretofore established so changed or relo-
cated. And provided further that said board shall have the power
to purchase from any person, firm or corporation, any road or parts
of roads heretofore constructed upon and along any of the streams
and tributaries aforesaid, and to adopt any road so purchased as a
public road.

Provided, further, that from any action or refusal to act of or
by the said board of supervisors upon any of the provisions of this
act an appeal shall be taken by the attorney for the Commonwealth
of the county whenever he shall deem such appeal proper or shall
be so requested in writing by any six freeholders of the county, to
the circuit court of the county, notice of which said appeal shall
be filed with the clerk of the board within thirty days from the
date of the action or non-action of said board, whereupon said
clerk shall forthwith cause notice of such appeal in the manner
prescribed by law for the service of process or publication in civil
action to be served upon all persons appearing to be interested in
such appeal, and upon the return of such process or publication
duly executed or of publication duly certified, the said clerk shall
certify to the circuit court all the orders or other papers pertaining
to the matters involved in such appeal whereupon the clerk of the
circuit court shall forthwith docket such appeal, which shall be
heard and determined by said circuit court which shall enter such
order in relation thereto, as may to said court seem just and proper,
but said appeal shall not be heard sooner than ten days from the
date of the filing in said court or clerk’s office of the said court of
records and papers herein required to be filed therein.

Sec. 6. All acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby
repealed.