Chap. 411.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4 and 6 of 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 Dinwiddie county, to create a road board, for Dinwiddie county, and
to prescribe its powers and duties, and provide for the appointment of a
county superintendent of roads, and to regulate his duties, approved
March 8, 1904, as heretofore amended. {Ul B 125]

Approved March 27, 1918.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
sections four and six of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact
an act entitled an act to establish a general road fund for the per-
manent improvement of roads and bridges in Dinwiddie county, to
create a road board for Dinwiddie county, and to prescribe its
powers and duties, and provide for the appointment of a county
superintendent of roads, and to regulate his duties, approved March
eighth, nineteen hundred and four, as heretofore amended, be amend-
ed and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 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 bv con-
tract by the lowest responsible bidder, to repair or have repaired 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 main-
tenance according to plans and specifications to be prepared by said
board, such roads or parts of roads not. designated as main publie
roads under section three of.this act. Said board shall have pre-
pared plans and specifications for all bridges to be constructed and
repaired by contract, and may reject any and all bids.

Said board may, in its discretion, appoint a superintendent of
roads, fix his salary and prescribe his duties.
Said board may employ a civil engineer for such time as said
board may deem necessary, who shall be paid for such services as
may be required of him five dollars per day for each day he is
actually employed, not exceeding a total of two hundred and fifty
dollars in any one year; and shall have full power to purchase ma-
chinery, teams, supplies and materials, and perform all other things
necessary to carry out the provisions of this act. It shall also have
authority to prevent the public from traveling on any road, or por-
tion 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 obstructions to the roads of said county, and any per-
son who shall attempt 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 the 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 repaired, 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 there-
on shall be paid out of the said bridge and repair fund. The mem-
bers of said board shall each receive the sum of forty ($40) dollars
per year. The secretary shall receive twenty-five (825) dollars per
year, and if he be a member of said board, this amount shall be in
addition to his pay as member. In addition to the above named
salary, the members of the board, may receive the sum of two ($2)
dollars per day for actual inspection of the roads of their respective
districts, returns of said inspection to be made in writing, roads
inspected named and any recommendation deemed proper made, but
in no case shall the sum paid for inspection exceed the sum of thirty-
five ($35) dollars per annum in any one district. The chairman of
the said board shall be allowed $2.00 per day for actual inspec-
tion not to exceed the sum of thirty-five dollars per annum, to be
paid out of the said special road fund. It shall be the duty of
the secretary 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 verified 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 court house, and at each voting precinct in the county. The
members of the said road board shall each give a bond in the penalty
of two thousand ($2,000) dollars, conditioned for the faithful per-
formance of their duties of said offices.
Section 6. The board of supervisors of said county shall annual
ly levy along with county levy a special tax upon the property
real and personal, assessed for taxation in said county, which to
gether with the county levy received from railroads, canals, tele.
graph and telephone companies shall constitute the road taxes of
Dinwiddie county to be divided, as provided in sections one and twe
of this act. Said special tax shall not be less than twenty nor mor
than fifty cents on every one hundred dollars value of such property
and shall be collected, accounted for and paid out of the general
county levy, unless otherwise provided for by this act. The saic
board of supervisors shall have the authority to appropriate to the
general road fund provided for by this act, any balance that may
remain at the end of any fiscal year to the credit of the county fund
or levy or so much of said balance as said board may deem it wise to
appropriate; and the said board may, at any time, appropriate the
said general fund sums from the county levy, as 1t may deem neces-
sary and proper, in addition to the special tax hereinbefore pro-
vided for, and the county levy received from railroads, canals. tele-
graph and telephone companies.