Chap. 178.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an
act to create for the county of Norfolk a commission of roads and bridges,
and to prescribe the powers and duties of such commission, and thereby to
provide for controlling, constructing and keeping in repair the public
roads and bridges within said county, and for acquiring, establishing, alter-
ing and vacating roads and bridges therein; and to repeal an act entitled an
act for working and keeping in repair the public roads in Norfolk county,
approved February 18, 1890, as amended by acts approved February 26,
1908, and March 14, 1910, respectively, and also to repeal an act entitled an
act for working and keeping in repair the public roads in Norfolk county,
approved February 1, 1894, approved February 1, 1915, as amended by an
act approved March 19, 1920. {H B 487]

Approved March 15, 1922.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion four of an act entitled an act to create for the county of Norfolk
a commission of roads and bridges, and to prescribe the powers and
aties of such commission, and thereby to provide for controlling,
>nstructing and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges
rithin said county, and for acquiring, establishing, altering and va-
ating roads and bridges therein; and to repeal an act entitled an
ct for working and keeping in repair the public roads in Norfolk
Ounty, approved February eighteen, eighteen hundred and ninety,
.S amended by acts approved February twenty-six, nineteen hundred
ind eight, and March fourteen, nineteen hundred and ten, respectively,
amd also to repeal an act entitled an act for working and keeping in
repair the public roads in Norfolk county, approved February first,
eighteen hundred and ninety-four, approved February first, nineteen
hundred and fifteen, as amended by. an act approved March nineteen,
mineteen hundred and twenty, be amended and re-enacted so as to
read as follows:

Sec. 4. The said commission may appoint a county road engineer
(who shall be a competent civil engineer), who shall devote his whole
time to the duties prescribed by the commission, and who shall attend
each meeting of the commission, and whose salary, to be fixed by it,
shall be not more than four thousand dollars per annum. Said en-
gineer shall personally own his means of road transportation, but
or the upkeep and maintenance of such means of transportation over
the roads of said county, he shall be allowed the sum of one thousand
dollars per annum, and further, be allowed his expense for common
carriers and hotels when on duties directly connected with the roads
of the county ; and it may appoint or employ, or authorize the appoint-
ment or employment of such additional engineers, overseers, agents,
servants, laborers and other subordinates as may be necessary for
the proper performance and execution of the duties imposed by this
act. It shall also have authority to employ counsel when the same is
rendered necessary to protect the public interest incident to its work
under this act, and to employ an expert accountant to assist in opening
its initial records and in ascertaining the amounts of the several
funds properly disbursable by it under this act. The terms, duties and
compensation of its respective appointees and employees shall be as
prescribed by it, their compensation shall be a reasonable one, and any
and all of them shall be removable at its pleasure for inefficiency or
other good cause.