CHAP. 63.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of an act entitled
an act to provide for State money aid in addition to convict labor for
the improvement of public roads, approved February 25, 1908, as
amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 25, 1910, and
as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 29, 1916, and
a amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 27,

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Approved September 9, 1919.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section six of an act entitled an act to provide for State money
aid in addition to convict labor for the improvement of public
roads, approved February twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and
eight, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February
twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten, and as amended and re-
enacted by an act approved February twenty-ninth, nineteen
hundred and sixteen, and as further amended and re-enacted by
an act approved March twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and
eighteen, be amended and re-enacted as follows: .

Sec. 6. The said proportion of said expense to be borne lo-
cally shall be a county charge in the first instance, and the fund
raised locally therefor and that received from the State, as here-
inafter provided, shall be paid out by the treasurer of the county
upon the warrants of the local road authorities thereof.

Any county wherein more than fifty per centum of the ex-
pense of permanent road improvement shall be expended, in ac-
cordance with the provision of this act, shall be entitled to re-
ceive its said annual apportionment of State aid until its receipts
from the State on such account shall equal fifty per centum of
such expenditure.

The county treasurer and his sureties shall be liable for all
moneys coming into his hands under this act; but an additional
bond may be required of said treasurer, and such treasurer shal}
receive as compensation for his services hereunder a commission
of one-fourth of one per centum of the amount thus coming into
his hands from the State treasury and from private contribution.