Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-01-29
A PROPOSED ROAD LAW
For Shenandoah County.
PArRox-M L. WALTON.

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copy was the cause.
Be il enacted 10y The General Assembly
of Virginia, That Oh and after the first
day of July, eighteen hundred add nine
lty-two, the board of supervisors of Shen-
audoah county shall take charge of aud
have worked and kept in repair sll pubic
roads and bridges heretofore or hereafter
established within the limits of said
county, and for this purpose the SAID
board of supervisors are authorized and
empowered to levy a road tax not exceed
ing IN any year thirty cents upon the one
hundred dollars of assessed taxable values,
including all railroad and telegraph COM
NAMES in SAID county and to adopt such
rec Nations as do not conflict with this
law as may be necessary to secure the
pr1per working OF roads in said comfy.
Each district shall retain the tax collected
in its respective district to be applied to
roads and bridges OF that district. After
the treasurer shall have collected the
road tax for any one year, and finds on
what the net proceeds are for each dis
tIict, he shall notify the clerk OF the
board of supervisors, who shall issue a
warrant on the treasurer payable to the
road board of each district for the amount
of the net proceeds of said road tax with
in and for said district, and which shall
he exnended In said district as hereafter
stated. As large amount as possible shall
be set aside annually by thu supervisors
for the purpose of macadamizing certain
specified roads IN the respective districts
of the county, end the residue of the
road tax to be used for the repairs of
roads. bridges, &c, as the board of super
visoIs may direct
The supervisors and commissioners of
roads of each magisterial district shall
constitute district board, and shall
meet in Nav OF each year to advertise for
letting to contract for ensuing year.
Tho SAID commissioner of roads and
supervisor of that district, severally,
shall annually at the meeting of the
hoard of supervisors, on the fourth Mon
day in July of each year, 1T to contract
TO the lowest suitable bidder or bidders,
the work of keeping in repair the roads
and bridges in their districts, notice Of
which letting shall be posted for ten days
al each pOstoflice and elsewhere IN the
district the said letting to bo whole
or i'm section, at the discretion OF the
commissioner and supervisor of that DIS
trict and for the year ending on the
thirtieth day OF June OF each year. They
shall reonire the bids to be in writing
and signed by the contractor, and shall
deliver the same under seal to the super
visor of the district and commissioners oil
roads for their examination and approval
or rejection at their first meeting thereai-
ter. Aud if it shall appear that no bid Is
T accented. then the commissioners of roads
and supervisors shall have worked said
roads OF bridges built as they shall deem
hest. Each contractor shall be required
TO give bond with good and acceptable
! security, IN penalty Of at least double
: the amount of bis bid, tor the faithful
performance of bis contract, and in any
case not more than three-lOurths OF th'
money under the contract shall be palt
S to any contractor until the road, bridge
or work Las been accepted and approved
nv the commissioner of roads and super
visor i'm each district, and n recovery maj
q also be had for any breach of said con
, tract, in the name of the county, by mo
ton. after ten days notice to the contrac
tor and his securities. The attorney 70
the commonwealth shall institute ant
= prosecute such motion. TIE sad Goa
o tracts and bonds shall lie filed with III
/
clerk of the board OF supervisors.
The contractors shall, be entitled TO tb
e services for not more than two days Il
r each year, of all male persons in the coun
! tv of Shenandoah from sixteen years
;, q. .e to sixty, except those that haye bee
exempted by the county court OF Shenan
D doah, and all those exempt according I
Y existing laws. as i'm all such cases mad
and provided, and the said cOltracto
shall be entitled to all remedies Now eN
i,ting for the collection of fines for fail
n ure TO work when duly summoned b.
r him against persons liable tor that cut
according to section enc thousand an
ten Virginia Code eighteen hundred an
D eighty seven. The road board shall a.
+ sign hands to the roads, in so FAR as prac
II ticable, nearest their respective places 0
i residence. Every contractor shall be
, citizen of Shenandoah county.
u 1t shall be the duty of the commission
1 er of roads to give personal supervise
n TO all the roads and bridges within tbei
= respective districts, to see that the col
tractor is faithfully performing his cor
| tract, and for any failure IN carrying
ont. The commissioner OF the district sha
+ at Orce institute. through the prosecntln
, attorney, proceedings for the recovery
i damages for the breach of said contrac
E And il shall be the duty of every sue
I commissioner OF roads to cause the roac
in his district to be kept c'earet
smootbed of Instructions, of necessar
width. well drained and otherwise /
r GOOD order, TO secure from the falling
= dead timber therein, and across eac
. stream, when it is necessary and pract
> cable. a sufficient bridge, bench, or loI
j. for the accommodation OF foot passengers
and for every breach of duty, ubder tn
= section, he shall be guilty OF a misd'
:, meanOr.
!, The commissioner of roads shall receiv
u as compensation not exceeding two 90
. lars per day while actually engaged, br
:. in no case shall compensation exceed OF
- hundred dollars per annum to be paid u
/ the county.
=. All levies made and collected und'
y this act shall be collected and sccOuDtf
! for by the county treasurer as other LEVI
~ are. and shall g paid out on the order
" the district board.
Il No member of the board of supervisor
:. or commissioner of roads, shall be direc
II, " interested in any contract made und
- this act. and any participation therein |
- either, shall render the contract null al
/, void.
= When the court shall order the opee
10 ing of a new road or the erection OF
u, new bridge, the work of opening or bull
"a ing the ZANE shall be let to contract, a
III cording to section three hereiubefo
mentioned, by the commissioner al
supervisor of that district in which sa
road or bridge is located, the contract
~ giving bond and security, to be approve
+. aud accepted by the district board. a
m petitions for roads shall be referred
d. the conrt it, in the opinion Of the couI
20 they are believed to be mertorious, to u
Of district board, when roads ought to
70 changed or established, for their approv,
~ or dissapproval, who are directed to NAL
en report thereof, accompanied with the
nj reasons for said report, and shall al
Il. give any and all the information niece
en- sary in enabling the court to have an az
I'D eonate apprehension oil the matter,
,os which report exceptions may be take
. if any. and the court, at its discretion
- may hear evidence, and If the opinion