Chap. 456.—An ACT to amend an act entitled an jact 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, altering 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, by
adding thereto a new section numbered 7-b, and to amend and re-enact section
4 of the said act, as heretofore amended. [S B 422]

Approved March 21, 1924.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That 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 com-
mission, and thereby to provide for controlling, constructing and keep-
ing in repair the public roads and bridges within said county, and for

uiring, establishing, altering 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 eighteenth,
eighteen hundred and ninety, as amended by acts approved February
twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and eight, and March fourteenth, nine-
teen hundred and ten, respectively, and 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, be amended by
adding a new section thereto numbered seven-b, which new section
shall read as follows:

Section 7-b. The commission of roads and bridges for the county
of Norfolk shall have authority to enter into contracts with the State
highway commission, and to execute the same, for the construction
and reconstruction of such parts of the State highway system as may
lie in the county of Norfolk, upon such terms and conditions as the
said commissions may agree upon.

Section 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 five thousand dollars per annum.
Said engineer shall personally own his means of road transportation,
but for the upkeep and maintenance of such means of transportation
over the roads of said county, he shall be allowed the sum of one thou-
sand 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 ren-
dered 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 com-
pensation of its respective appointees and employees shall be as pre-
scribed 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.

2.4. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its pas-

sage.