Chap. 409.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 9 and 13 of an act en-
titled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for
opening and keeping in repair the public roads of Pulaski: county, ap-
proved March 2, 1892, as amended and re-enacted by. an act approved
February 27, 1896, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved January
25, 1898, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 6, 1900, as
amended and re-enacted by an act approved May 14, 1903, as amended and
re-enacted by an act approved March 14, 1908, as amended and re-enacted
by an act approved March 24, 1920. . [H B 285]

Approved March 24, 1922.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tions nine and thirteen of an act entitled an act to provide for open-
ing and keeping in repair the public roads of Pulaski county, approved
March second,’ eighteen hundred and ninety-two, as amended and
re-enacted by an act approved February twenty-seventh, -eighteen
hundred and ninety-six, as amended and re-enacted by an act ap-
proved January twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, as
amended and re-enacted by an act approved March sixth, nineteen hyn-
dred, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved May fourteenth,
nineteen hundred and three, as amended and re-enacted by an act ap-
proved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, as. amended
and re-enacted by an act approved March twenty-fourth, nineteen
hundred and twenty, be amended and re-enacted so as to, read as
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Sec. 9. It shall be the duty of the said road board to meet at the
courthouse of said county during the month of January of each year;
at which meeting they shall divide the roads .and,. bridges of their
several districts into sections, a record of: which divisions shall be
filed with the clerk of said road board, and recorded by..him upon
their minutes; and they shall appoint a surveyor for one or more of
such section or sections, whose duty it shall be to superintend and
direct the opening, repairing and keeping in order of the county roads
of his section or sections and the making or repairing of all county
bridges in his section or sections, in such manner and under such
regulations and restrictions as may. be prescribed by said road board.
But said road board is hereby authorized to let to contract the con-
struction of new roads or bridges, or any part thereof, to whomever
and upon such terms as said road board may deem expedient. __.”

The term of office of such road supervisors shall be one year from
the date of their appointment in January of each year. They shall
not be interested in any claim for work done or material furnished
on any road or bridge in their respective districts, and any claims
for work done or for material furnished by any such surveyor on any
road in his district shall not be approved or paid by the road com-
missioner of such district, except the amount legally due such sure
veyor for his services. Said surveyor shall qualify as other district
officers are required by law to qualify, and each of them:shall enter
into and acknowledge a bond before the court or judge before whom
he qualifies, with surety to be approved by such court or judge, in the
penalty of five hundred dollars. Such bond shall be payable to the
board of road commissioners of Pulaski county, and conditioned for
the faithful discharge of said surveyor of the duties imposed upon
him under this act. A recovery on any such bond shall be for the
benefit of the road district in which such surveyor is appointed. A
vacancy in the office of road surveyor shall be filled by the road com-
missioner of the district wherein such vacancy occurs.

It shall be the duty of such surveyors to have charge of and take
proper care of all tools, implements and machines which may be
placed in their charge, and at the end of their term of office, or when-
ever directed so to do by the road commissioner of his district, to
deliver the same to his successor in office,.or to such other person
as said road commissioner may direct.

It shall also be the duty of each surveyor to cause the roads in

his section or sections to be kept cleared, smoothed of rock and ob-
structions, and of necessary width, and the middle of the bed of the
road raised and sloped each way from the middle to the sides, well
drained and otherwise in good order, and secured from the falling
of dead or dangerous timber therein. At the fork or crossing of every
road shall be kept erected sign boards on which shall be stated in
plain letters the most noted places to which each road leads; and
across each stream, when it is necessary and practical, a sufficient
bridge, bench, or log, for the accommodation of foot-passengers.
Sich surveyors shall be authorized to employ all necessary labor
by the month or by the day, or both, as the said road board of the
county shall deem best, and also to hire horses, mules, or work oxen
by the day; the rate to be paid such laborers or for the hire of such
horses, mules, or work oxen to be fixed by the said road board.

Such surveyors shall furnish vouchers each month for all expen-
ditures, whether for tools, materials, laborers, or horses, mules, or
work oxen, which vouchers shall be in duplicate and shall be presented
to the road commissioner of the district and, being by him approved,
shall be laid before the board of supervisors of said county, and, if
approved by said board of supervisors, shall be paid out of the road
fund of such district.

The road board, at its annual meeting in January of each year, shall
determine what compensation shall be paid to such surveyors, which
compensation said road board may change from time to time, and
may pay one rate for one month and a different rate for a different
month, or may make such compensation payable by the day, if deemed
advisable. Each surveyor shall present to the road commissioner
of his district vouchers, duly sworn to by him, for amounts due him
under the terms of his employment, which vouchers shall be laid
before the board of supervisors of said county and, if approved,
ordered to be paid out of the road fund of said district. But no sur-
veyor shall receive any compensation until he shall have fully per-
formed all duties imposed upon him by this act and by the provisions
of the general road law of this State, thereto applicable, for which no.
provisions has been made under this act.
Sec. 13. -For the purposes of this act, the board of supervisors
of Pulaski county shall annually levy a capitation tax of fifty cents
on every male citizen over the age of twenty-one years, and a tax not
to exceed one dollar on the one hundred dollars of the assessed value
of the real estate and tangible personal property in the respective
magisterial districts of said county for the benefit of the road fund;
provided, that the taxes collected for road purposes in each magis-
terial district shall be expended only on the roads in the district where-
in collected, except that taxes for road purposes derived from rail-
roads, telegraph and telephone companies, shall be equally divided
among the several magisterial districts of said county; and provided,
further, that this act shall in no wise affect sections five and six of an
act entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors of Pulaski
county to borrow money for the construction of, and repairs to, the
bridge across New river at Towe’s ferry, in Pulaski county, approved
December twenty-first, nineteen hundred and one.

2. Inasmuch as the time is near at hand for laying the county
levies, an emergency is hereby declared to exist and this act shall
be in force from its passage.