Chap. 413.—An ACT to provide a road board for Franktown magisterial district,
in Northampton county, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict.
[H B 134]
Approved March 31, 1932

Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia as follows:

1. There is hereby created for Franktown magisterial district, in
the county of Northampton, a district road board to be composed of five
members, which board shall have exclusive control of all roads and
bridges within the limits of said district, and taxes levied in said dis-
trict for road purposes and for building and repairing bridges, together
with its share of the county levy for road purposes, shall be expended
in said district, as far as practicable.

2. The persons now serving as members of the road board for
said district shall be construed to be members of the road board for
Franktown district, as created by this act, and shall continue to serve
as such until their successors are appointed as hereinafter provided.
Their successors shall be appointed for terms of six (6) years by the
judge of the circuit court of Northampton county, who shall also ap-
point successors to any members of such road board as may for any
cause be removed from office during the term for which they are ap-
pointed. The said road board shall have a chairman, and a clerk and
treasurer, to be selected and appointed by the board. The clerk and
treasurer shall be the same person, and his accounts shall be audited by
said board and certified to the board of supervisors and published once
each year. The members of said board shall reside in said district
during their term of office, and upon removing therefrom, the successor
of any so removing shall be selected in the manner hereinafter pro-
vided for.

3. The board created by this act shall be a body corporate and
shall be known and designated as the board of road commissioners of
Franktown magisterial district of Northampton county, and as such,
shall have the right to contract and to be contracted with, sue and be
sued.

4. The commissioners selected under this act shall qualify before
the clerk of the circuit court and in the manner provided by law for
the qualification of magisterial district officers, and the treasurer shall
at the time of his qualification, and before he enters upon the discharge
of his duties, give bond for the faithful performance of his duties, with
security in the sum of five thousand ($5,000.00) dollars, by a guaran-
tee company, the premiums to be paid out of the road fund; and shall
receive two hundred and fifty dollars ($250.00) per annum in full com-
pensation for his services for receiving and disbursing all funds that
may come into his hands as such treasurer.

5. The clerk and treasurer of said road board shall keep a com-
plete and accurate record of all proceedings of said board and the
moneys received and expended by the said board and shall in December
of each year cause to be published in the newspapers of said county a
statement showing all receipts and disbursements of said board for
the preceding twelve months; the said board shall meet at some con-
venient place in said district, and for their services in attendance upon
said meeting, the members thereof in actual attendance shall receive a
per diem of four dollars, but the members of said board shall not
receive pay for more than twelve meetings in any one year. The said
board is hereby authorized and empowered to adopt such methods and
materials as in their judgment may seem best suited for the require-
ments of their district ; employ such engineers, road builders and opera-
tors upon such terms as to them may seem fit and reasonable and
proper regulations as to location, construction and maintenance of the
roads in said district.

6. Allacts and doings of the persons serving and functioning as the
board of road commissioners of Franktown magisterial district of
Northampton county, and all of the acts of the board of supervisors of
Northampton county and of the department of highways, in their deal-
ings with the said board of road commissioners, at any time prior to
the date this act becomes effective, are hereby validated and declared
to be legal, and binding upon all parties concerned.

7. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with, or inconsistent with
any of the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed.

8. An emergency existing, this act shall-be in effect from its
passage. ,