Chap. 52.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3 and 4 of an act entitled
in act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-
enact an act to provide for creating, working and maintaining public
roads in Fairfax county and defining the boundaries of the same, ap-
proved March 14, 1904, approved March 8, 1906, approved March 14, 1908.

[S B 104]

Approved February 16, 1918.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
ons three and four of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact
n act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an. act to provide for
reating, working and maintaining public roads in Fairfax county
nd defining the boundaries of the same, approved March four-
enth, nineteen hundred and four, approved March eighth, nine-
en hundred and six, approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred
nd eight, be, and the same is hereby, amended and re-enacted so as
» read as follows:

2. Each road commissioner shall be elected by the qualified vot-
's of his magisterial district, including the qualified voters of all
icorporated towns therein, for the term of four years, at the same
me as members of the house of delegates; shall qualify before the
lerk of the circuit court of Fairfax county on or before the first
ay of January next succeeding his election, and shall, at the time
f his qualification, give bond, with approved security, in the pen-
ty of not less than one thousand dollars and conditioned as the
law directs; shall assume the duties of his office on the first day of
January next succeeding his election. at which time his term of office
shall begin; and shall continue in office for the term of four years
and thereafter until his successor is elected and qualifies; but it
is hereby provided that John H. Waple, of Dranesville magisterial
district; Robert L. Spindle, of Centreville magisterial district; C.
Norman Stewart, of Lee magisterial district, and James Bowling,
of Mount Vernon magisterial district; who have been duly elected
and have qualified as road commissioners, shall be, and are hereby,
confirmed as road commissioners in their respective districts afore-
said, and shall continue in office as such until and including the
thirty-first dav of December, nineteen hundred and nineteen; and
that D. B. Elgin, of Providence magisterial district. and George W.
Bladen, of Falls Church magisterial district, who have heretofore
been appointed as road commissioners, shal] be, and are hereby, con-
firmed as road commissioners in their respective districts, and shall
continue as such until] their respective successors are elected or
appointed by the board of supervisors, as hereinafter provided, and
qualify. Within sixty days after the passage or approval of this
act, the board of supervisors of the county of Fairfax shall elect
two road commissioners each for Providence and Falls Church
magisterial districts, and one road commissioner each for Dranes-
ville, Lee, Centreville and Mount Vernon magisterial districts, which
said road commissioners, so elected or appointed by the board of
supervisors, shall, within thirty days after their appointment or
election, qualify before the clerk of the circuit court of Fairfax
county, giving bonds, as hereinbefore provided, and shall continue
in office until and including the thirty-first day of December, nine-
teen hundred and eight. At the regular election to be held in
November, nineteen hundred and eight. the qualified voters of the
respective magisterial districts aforesaid, including the qualified
voters of all incorporated towns therein, shall each elect the follow-
ing number of road commissioners, to-wit: Providence, two; Falls
Church, two; Lee, one; Dranesville, one; Centreville, one; and
Mount Vernon, one: which said road commissioners shall qualify
before the clerk of the circuit court of Fairfax county on or before
the first day of January, nineteen hundred and nine, giving bond.
as hereinbefore provided, and continuz in office from the first day
of January, nineteen hundred and nine, until the thirty-first day
of December, nineteen hundred and nine. Each road commis.
sioner shall reside in and be a qualified voter of the magisteria!
district for which he is elected or appointed or of an incorporatec
town therein.

3. The three members of the district road board in each mag:
isteria] district shall together serve not more than one hundred days
in any one year, and each member thereof shall, unless the distric'
road board shall unanimously agree to divide the time differently
serve at least one-third of said time, not exceeding thirty-three anc
one-third days, and shall receive such compensation as the boarc
of supervisors may allow, not to exceed three dollars per day, anc
the ex-officio chairman of each district road board shall receive the
aforesaid compensation in addition to such allowances as ave
allowed by law to him as supervisor, but he shall not be allowed
compensation In both capacities on the same day.