Chap. 245.—An ACT to provide a road commission for Eastville magisterial
district, in Northumberland: county, and to repeal previous acts.

[H B 445]
Approved March 16, 1920.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That there
is hereby established for Eastville magisterial district, in the county
of Northumberland, a district road commission, consisting of the duly
elected supervisor of said district, who shall be known as chairman,
and H. S. Thomas, G. W. Holland, H. P. James, T. P. Bell, Ernest
Scott and H. H. Wilkins, which commission shall have exclusive
contro! of all roads and bridges within the limits of said district, and
also of all taxes levied for road purposes and for building and re-
pairing bridges; and of all moneys which may be borrowed by the
board of supervisors, under any law now existing, or which may here-
after be enacted for the purpose of building, improving and maintain-
ing the public roads and bridges in said Eastville magisterial district,
and all taxes levied for road purposes and for building and repairing
bridges within the said district ; that is to say, that the taxes levied in
the said magisterial district for road purposes shall be expended in
said district, including its shares of the county levy, for road purposes.
The members of said commission provided for in this act shall hold
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ofice for two and four years from the time of their appointment in
the order named, so that three shall be appointed as hereinafter pro-
vided for, on or before January first, nineteen hundred and twenty-two,
and three on January first, nineteen hundred and twenty-four.

2. Upon said commission meeting and organization, the said
members shall at once select a secretary-treasurer, whose accounts
shall be audited by said commission and certified by said commission
to the board of supervisors once a year and published once each
year in some newspaper published in the same county. The said
members of said road commission shall reside in the said district dur-
ing their term of office, and, upon removal therefrom, their successor
shall be selected in the manner thereinafter provided.

3. Inthe event of the vacancy in such Eastville road commission,
whether caused by death, resignation or removal from office or from
the district for which they were appointed, or by expiration of term
of office, such vacancy shall be filled by the circuit court of said county
or the judge thereof in vacation.

4. Said commission hereby provided for shall be a body cor-
porate, and shall be known and designated as “the Eastville road
commission,” and as such shall have the right to contract and be con-
tracted with, sue and be sued.

5. Said district road commission selected under this act shall
qualify before the clerk of the circuit court and in the manner pro-
vided by law for qualifications of magisterial district officers, and the
treasurer shall, at the time of his qualification and before he enters
upon the discharge of his duties, give bond for the faithful perform-
ance of his duties with security in the sum of two thousand dollars by
guarantee company, the premiums to be paid out of the road funds,
and shall receive a salary not to exceed one hundred dollars per an-
num, in full compensation for his services for receiving and disburs-
ing all funds that may come into his hands as such treasurer and
for performing the duties of secretary.

6. The said commission shall meet at some convenient place in
said district, and for their services in attendance upon said meeting,
the members thereof in attendance shall receive a per diem of four
dollars, but members of said commission shall not receive pay for
more than twelve meetings in any one year.

7. The said district road commission is hereby authorized and
empowered to adopt such methods and materials as in its judgment
may seem: best suited to the requirements of said district, employ
such engineers, road builders and operatives, teams and machinery
as to it may seem fit, and make reasonable and proper regulations as
to location, construction and maintenance of the roads and bridges of
said district and do generally and perform all acts necessary for the
effectuation of the interests and purposes hereof.

8. All acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby
repealed.

9. An emergency arising by reason of the importance of the
immediate execution of the provisions of this act, the same shall be in
force from its passage.