Chap. 210.—An ACT to authorize, empower and require the board of supervisors
of Grayson county to borrow the sum of $30,000.00 and to issue bonds there-
for for the repair, improvement and construction of certain roads and bridges
in Wilson, Elk Creek and Providence magistcrial districts of said county;
to provide for the expenditure of the funds raised by such bond issues; to
employ a competent road engineer, whose selection shall be approved by the
State Highway Commissioner, to make plans and specifications of all roads
and bridges thereon, to be built or permanently improved from the proceeds
of such bond issues, and to supervise the building of same; to employ and
pay for the labor for construction of the roads mentioned; to specify: the
roads and parts thereof to be constructed, and the amounts to be expended
thereon; to provide for imposing a tax on all property, county and district
including property in any incorporated town situated within the above-named
districts, for the purpose of paying the interest and principal of such debt;
to do all things necessary, needful or incidental to the main purpose of this
act; and to declare an emergency. [S B 263]

Approved March 19, 1926.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
board of supervisors of Grayson county be, and it is hereby author.
ized, empowered and required to issue bonds in the name of the
county of Grayson, for the purpose of surveying, repairing, construct-
ing and improving certain roads and building bridges thereon in
Wilson, Elk Creek and Providence magisterial districts, as hereinafter
set forth, to-wit: The sum of ten thousand dollars for Wilson magis-
terial district, the sum of ten thousand dollars for Elk Creek magis-
terial district, and the sum of ten thousand dollars for Providence
magisterial district in said county of Grayson.

2. The said board of supervisors are authorized, empowered and
hereby required, after issuing said bonds, when the next levy is made
or tax imposed in said county, to levy a tax on all property liable to
county and district tax in each magisterial district of the county in
which the proceeds of the bonds have been or are to be expended,
including such property located on the situs of which for taxation 1s
within the limits of any incorporated town situated within such dis-
trict, to pay the interest on said bonds so issued and to create a
sinking fund to redeem the principal of said bonds at maturity.

3. The said bonds, when issued, shall be delivered to the treasurer
of Grayson county and when said bonds are sold he shall deliver the.
bonds to the purchaser or purchasers and these bonds shall be sold
and marketed as now provided by general law for the sale and market-
ing of county road bonds. The said bonds, when issued, shall be
signed by the chairman of the board of supervisors and countersigned
by the clerk of said board and the seal of the board affixed; these bonds
shall be issued in serial number and shall be payable from five to
fifteen years, one-tenth of the principal of said bonds shall become
due and payable every year after five years from date of issue, no part
of the principal shall become due and payable until five years after
issue, then one-tenth of said bonds shall be paid off and retired each
year thereafter. .

4. The said board of supervisors are hereby authorized, em-
powered and required to make, issue and sell all of said bonds author-
ized and directed to be issued by this act and all of said bonds shall be
issued and sold and all work done and completed on said roads and
bridges mentioned in this act by the first day of September, nineteen
hundred and twenty-seven, but no bonds shall be sold for less than
par value thereof and shall not bear a greater interest than six per
centum per annum, interest to be paid on the said bonds semi-annually,
bonds to be issued in denominations of not less than one hundred
dollars and not more than one thousand dollars.

5. All money realized from the sale of said bonds under the
provisions of this act shall be received by the treasurer of said county
and he shall keep said money separate from any other money that
may come into his hands as treasurer, and shall keep the money
separate in each magisterial district, and for his services required of
him by this act he shall be paid according to law.

6. The board of supervisors of the county of Grayson shall issue
and make sale as hereinbefore stated of bonds in the sum of ten
thousand dollars for Wilson magisterial district in said county, and
the sum of ten thousand dollars for the Elk Creek magisterial district
in said county and the sum of ten thousand dollars for the Providence
magisterial district in said county, but the full faith and credit of the
entire county of Grayson is to be pledged to the payment of all the
said bonds of each district and the interest on the same.

7. The board of supervisors of the said county of Grayson shall,
at their next monthly meeting after the passage of this act, pass a
resolution authorizing the issue of said bonds and the purpose for
which said bonds are to be issued, and when said bonds are issued
they are to be made payable to bearer and shall be negotiable and
each bond shall state when due and payable and shall be made pay-
able at the office of the treasurer of Grayson county; and said board
of supervisors shall cause to be printed on each bond the name of the
magisterial district for which it is issued, but that the full faith and
credit of the entire county of Grayson is pledged‘to the payment of
said bonds and the interest on the same, and that said bonds are
issued in pursuance of a resolution of the board of supervisors of
Grayson county and in pursuance of authority, empowering and re-
quiring the board of supervisors of the county of Grayson to issue
said bonds and to market said bonds as the law requires. and i in pur-
suance of this act.

8. Each member of the board of supervisors of said magisterial
districts of said county of Grayson, is hereby authorized, empowered
and required to expend by September first, nineteen hundred and
twenty-seven, under the supervision of a competent road engineer,
whose selection shall be approved by the State highway commissioner,
the money from the sale of the bonds of his magisterial district on the
roads specifically mentioned and described in his district and each
supervisor shall keep an itemized account of all work done and money
expended in the construction, surveying, repairing and improving the
roads and bridges on said roads designated in his magisterial district.

Each supervisor is authorized, required and empowered in con-
junction with the road engineer, mentioned i in this act, to appoint all
overseers, foremen and subordinates, as they consider necessary to
carry out the provisions of this act, and to have the work done on said
roads and bridges on the same herein mentioned and specified, and
shall pay to them not more than twenty-five cents per hour for each
adult laborer for work, and not more than fifty cents per hour for
two-horse team, wagon and driver.

9. Before any work is actually commenced on any road mentioned
and described in this act the supervisor of the district in which the
road is located shall have the road surveyed and located by the road
engineer, mentioned in this act, provided said roads have not already
been surveyed and located.

The supervisor of each magisterial district shall have the amount
of money herein designated spent on each road mentioned in this act
in a fair and equitable way and shall distribute the work over the
entire road and shall cause to be hauled and distributed where neces-
sary on each of said roads, sand, gravel and any other substance that
will improve the road and cause the same to be dry and solid; he shall
cut out as many of the steep grades on each road as possible.
10. ‘ Each supervisor shall make out an itemized account of all
work done by him or under his charge or direction, showing the teams,
tools, implements and machinery used and the number and names of
the laborers employed and dates on which the work was done and the
number of hours worked by each laborer and shall then issue a warrant
on the treasurer of Grayson county and give the same to the person
performing the labor and the treasurer of the county shall pay the
same out of the funds arising from the sale of said bonds of the magis-
terial district in which the work and labor has been performed.

11. The said board of supervisors shall cause to be kept by the
clerk of the board of supervisors a book, in which an itemized account
of all work done, and all money expended on the roads and bridges
mentioned in this act and published in the manner provided by law
for the publication of other expenditures. The board of supervisors
shall devise a system of bookkeeping in order to carry out the in-
tention of this act, and require the clerk of said board to keep said
books as directed and also require the treasurer of said county to keep
his books in accordance with rules and regulations laid down by them;
the clerk of said board shall be paid the sum of one hundred and fifty
($150.00) dollars for his services required of him by this act.

12. The supervisor of the Wilson magisterial district in conjunc-
tion with the road engineer, mentioned in this act, shall construct,
improve and repair the following roads and bridges thereon, in his
magisterial district, and none other, out of the funds derived from the
sale of the bonds of his magisterial district, and said supervisor, under
the supervision of said road engineer, shall expend on each road herein
mentioned of said funds, the following amount, to-wit:

(a) The sum of five thousand dollars on the public road from
White Top Gap to the mouth of Cabin Creek. The construction and
improvement of this road shall commence at White Top depot.

(b) The sum of one thousand dollars on the public road from the
mouth of Cabin Creek down Helton Creek to the North Carolina line.

(c) The sum of four thousand dollars on the public road from the
North Carolina line near Greenwood to the bridge over Wilson creek
east of Rugby via of Calvin Young’s place and Rugby postoffice.

13. The supervisor of the Elk Creek magisterial district in con-
junction with the road engineer, mentioned in this act, and under the
supervision of said engineer, shall construct, improve and repair the
following roads and bridges thereon in his magisterial district, and
none other, out of the funds derived from the sale of the bonds of his
magisterial district mentioned in this act, and shall expend on each
road herein mentioned of said funds the following amounts, to-wit:

(a) The sum of four thousand dollars on the public road leading
from Troy’s Chapel to Comers Rock Postoffice via John W. McLean’s,
Elk Creek postoffiice and Emmett Hall's.

(b) The sum of three thousand dollars on the public road leading
from L. P. Stamper’s to Long’s Gap, intersecting the State and
National highway near Long’s Gap.

(c) The sum of two thousand dollars on the public road leading
from Bethel Church intersecting the Elk Creek and Comers Rock
public road near J. T. Parsons’ via Marvin Cornett’s, Burkett Taylor’s
and Bennington’s mill.

(d) The sum of one thousand dollars on the public road leading
from New River near Gentry Alexander’s farm to intersect State
highway route east of J. C. Padjetts.

14. The supervisor of the Providence magisterial district in con-
junction with the road engineer, mentioned in this act, and under the
supervision of said engineer, shall construct, improve and repair the
following roads and bridges thereon in his magisterial district, and
none other, out of the funds derived from the sale of the bonds of his
magisterial district mentioned in this act, and shall expend on each
road herein mentioned of said funds the following amount; to-wit:

(a) The sum of ten thousand dollars on the public road leading
from Providence Church to Elk Creek magisterial district line near
Reece Vaughts.

15. Each supervisor shall be allowed the sum of four dollars per
day while he is actually engaged in having the work done in his dis-
trict on the public roads and bridges thereon mentioned in this act,
and no supervisor shall be paid for more than seventy days for ser-
vices rendered by him under this act.

16. This act shall be construed as mandatory, requiring the board
of supervisors of Grayson county to issue the bonds, to lay a levy on
the property of each magisterial district liable to the county and dis-
trict tax to pay for the bonds and the interest on same to have the
work performed mentioned in this act and to require the supervisors
and each member thereof to have all the work done on the roads and
bridges on said roads mentioned in this act, in conjunction and under
the supervision of the road engineer.

17. The purchasers of the bonds authorized to be issued by this
act shall in no event be required to see to the application of the pur-
chase money.

18. This act shall be construed to the end that its purposes shall
be fully carried out.

19. In view of the fact that the roads mentioned and described
and laid out in each magisterial district in this act are badly in need of
repair and improvement, an emergency is declared to exist and this
act shall be in force from its passage.