Chap. 352.—An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of
Grayson county to borrow the sum of $39,000.00, and to issue bonds therefor
for the repair, improvement and construction of certain roads and bridges in
Elk Creek and Providence magisterial districts of said county; to provide for
the expenditure of the funds raised by such bond issues; to employ a compe-
tent road engineer, whose selection shall be approved by the chairman of the
State highway commission, 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 384]

Approved March 21, 1928

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
board of supervisors of Grayson county be, and it is hereby authorized
and empowered to issue bonds in the name of the county of Grayson,
for the purpose of surveying, repairing, constructing and improving
certain roads and building bridges thereon in Elk creek and Provi-
dence magisterial districts, as hereinafter set forth, to-wit: The sum
of ten thousand dollars for Elk creek magisterial district, and the
sum of twenty-nine thousand dollars for Providence magisterial dis-
trict in said county of Grayson.

2. The said board of supervisors are hereby authorized and em-
powered, 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 pro-
ceeds of the bonds have been or are to be expended, including such
property located on the situs of which for taxation is within the limits
of any incorporated town situated within such district, to pay the in-
terest on said bonds so issued and to create a sinking fund to fedeem
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 one to
twenty years, one-twentieth of said bonds shall be paid off and retired
each year after date of issue.

4. The said board of supervisors are hereby authorized and em-
powered to make, issue and sell all of said bonds authorized and di-
rected 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 men-
tioned in this act by the first day of September, nineteen hundred and
twenty-nine, but no bonds shall be sold for less than par value thereof
and shall not bear a greater interest that 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 five hundred dollars and not more than
one thousand dollars.

5. All money realized from the sale of said bonds under the provi-
sions 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 one and one-half per centum on the amount
received by him.

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 thou-
sand dollars for the Elk Creel: magisterial district in said county and
the sum of twenty-nine thousand dollars for the Providence magis-
terial 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 may, as
soon as practicable after the passage of this act, but not later than
September first, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine, 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 payable 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 the board of supervisors of the
county of Grayson to issue said bonds and to market said bonds as
the law requires and in pursuance of this act.

8. Each member of the board of supervisors of said magisterial
districts of said county of Grayson is hereby authorized and em-
powered to expend by September first, nineteen hundred and twenty-
nine, under the supervision of a competent rvad engineer, whose se-
lection shall be approved by the chairman of the State highway com-
mission, the money from the sale of the bonds of his magisterial dis-
trict 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 magis-
terial district.

Each supervisor is authorized, required and empowered, in con-
junction with the road engineer, mentioned 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 for their services rendered and performed.

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 necessary 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 roads 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 num-
ber 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 per-
forming 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 magisterial
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 shall be kept and published in the manner pro-
vided by law for the publication of other expenditures. The board of
supervisors shall devise a system of bookkeeping in order to carry out
the intention 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 Elk Creek magisterial district in con-
junction with the road engineer, mentioned in this act, shall construct,
improve and repair the following roads and bridges thereon, in his
magisterial district, out of the funds derived from the sale of the
bonds of his magisterial district, and said supervisor, under the super-
vision of said road engineer, shall expend on each road herein men-
tioned of said funds, the following amount, to-wit.:

(a) The sum of eight thousand dollars on the public road leading
from Troy’s chapel to Comers Rock postoffice via John W. Mcl.ean’s,
Elk Creek postofice, Emmett Hall’s and Union church.

The supervisor of Elk Creek magisterial’ district shall commence
the improvement, building and repairing this road at Troy’s chapel.

(b) The sum of two thousand dollars on the public road from the
Elk Creek and Providence magisterial district line, near Reece
Vaught’s, to intersect the State highway route, now designated as
number twenty-six, near the Chesley Ward’s place.

13. 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, out of
the funds derived from the sale of the bonds of his magisterial dis-
trict mentioned in this act, and shall expend on each road herein men-
tioned of said funds the following amount, to-wit. :

(a) The sum of nine thousand dollars on the road from Troy’s
chapel at the Providence and Elk Creek magisterial district line, to
intersect with route number twelve, via Catron’s mill, Summerfield
church, Lawrence E. Carico, and George Ringe farm.

(b) The sum of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000.00) for extend-
ing and constructing route number one hundred and twenty-one from
a point near M. C. Porter’s to Fries.

14. 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,
provided the supervisor of Elk Creek district shall not be paid for more
than eighty days, and the supervisor of Providence district shall not
be paid for more than one hundred and twenty days for services ren-
dered by him under this act.

15. This act shall not be construed to be mandatory upon the board
of supervisors of Grayson county to issue the bonds, herein provided
for, but to confer upon said board discretionary power only.

16. 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 purchase
money.

17. 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.