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.

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 district 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 appoint successors to any members of such road board as may for any cause be removed from office during the term for which they are appointed. The said road board shall have a chairman, and a clerk and treasurer, to be elected 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 provided 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 guarantee 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 compensation 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 complete 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 requirements of their district; employ such engineers, road builders and operators 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. All acts 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 dealings 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.