CHAP. 216.--An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4 and 5 of an act entitled an act to authorize Northampton county to borrow money and issue bonds for a sum not to exceed $150,000, for the purpose of building public roads in said county, approved Marc...

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sections four and five of an act entitled an act to authorize Northampton county to borrow money and issue bonds for a sum not to exceed one hundred and fifty thousand dollars for the purpose of building public roads in said county, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 4. The ballots to be used in such election shall be prepared as are ballots for other general elections, and shall contain the words "for the issue of bonds for public road improvement," and "against the issue of bonds for public road improvement;" and if upon the canvass of the ballots cast, it shall be found that a majority of those voting are in favor of such bond issue, the fact shall be so reported, as are the results of other general elections, and the board of supervisors upon receipt of notice of such results shall proceed immediately to prepare, execute and negotiate such bonds accordingly; provided, however, that if one or more of the magisterial districts of the said county shall cast a majority vote in favor of such bond issue and one or more shall vote negatively thereon, the said board shall issue such bonds, in such proportion of the said sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, only, as the road mileage of the district or districts voting in favor thereof shall bear to the aggregate road mileage of the said county, or as nearly as may reasonably be possible, the proceeds of such bonds so issued to be applied exclusively to road building in such magisterial districts, provided that the total amount issued by the district in favor of this law shall not exceed thirty thousand dollars ($30,000).

Sec. 5. The said board of supervisors, together with the road commission for Capeville magisterial district in the said county, created by an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved February eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight and W. J. Sturgis, P. W. Tankard, G. E. Colbourn, W. E. Thomas, J. W. Chandler, C. I. Hurtt, J. L. Walker, Clarence Knight, of the Franktown magisterial district of the said county; G. W. Holland, W. L. Dalby, O. F. Mears, L. W. Nottingham, William H. Westcott, H. L. Thomas, T. P. Bell, John B. Dunton, of the Eastville magisterial district of the said county; John S. Wise, W. W. Dixon, Kemper Goffigon, Ruic Nottingham, C. F. Wilson, A. P. Scott, E. D. Stevenson, George F. Parramore, of the Capeville magisterial district of the said county, shall constitute a road board for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this act, and the said board of supervisors, road commission for Capeville magisterial district, and other district members of the said road board, whose respective magisterial districts shall vote in favor of the said bond issue, are hereby authorized and empowered to adopt such methods and materials as, in their judgment, may seem best suited to the requirements of their respective districts, employ such engineers, road builders and operatives, upon such terms and for such compensation as to them may seem fit, and make all reasonable and proper regulations as to location, construction and maintenance of the roads to be constructed hereunder, and to do generally and perform all acts necessary of the effectuation of the intents and purposes thereof, and said road board created under this act shall cause its accounts to be audited annually and publish a full report of all receipts and expenditures in some newspaper in said county. The treasurer of the road board provided for under this law shall, when he enters upon the duties of this office, give a bond in the sum of ten thousand dollars, conditioned on the faithful performance of his duties.

2. All acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.