Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-03-07

shall be receipted for by the commissioner a
If paid in money: provided, however, that tht
treasurer shall, in all cases, pay out money OF
the order of the commissioner who ordered
the work done or materials furnished or service
rendered, whether said commissioners sue
cessor shall have qualified or not: and provided
further, that no commissioner shall order any
work to be done by contract or otherwise, o.
materials to be furnished after the fifteenth
!, day of May of the year in which his term ex
pires except by and with the consent of thu
county court, or the judge thereof in vacation
Each commissioner of roads acting under the
provisions of this act shall settle with the rOat
board of his district on the first Monday il
June of each year or as soon thereafter as thu
said board shall meet and account for al
moneys received by him from the treasurer o.
otherwise for road purposes, and pay over any
balance in his hands to his successor in office
which shall be placed to the credit of the boarC
and appropriated for road purposes. The take
levied under this act shall be subject to the
same laws regulating the collection of all othel
taxes
g. The road board shall annually on the first
Monday in June, audit adjust and settle ac
counts of the treasurer for the preceding year
but if their business shall not be completed OIL
that day, they may adjourn from day to day
until it is completed. They shall charge the
treasurer the full amount of the road tax levied
in the district, and shall credit him by his
commissions delinquent and all payments
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for which he has proper receipts He shall
receive the same per centum for collecting
road taxes as are allowed for collecting the
State taxes.
10. The said road board OF each road distric
shall convene at stated times and places in its
district, of which there shall be notice given
and at which persons having business with the
board may attend. Meetings for special pur
poses may be held at Staunton; also, III the
district, on request of the commissioner OF
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president of the board the director shall dis.
charge the duties of clerk. The board shall be
a delberative body. to consider the subjects
committed to it in this act, and determine the
ways and means by which, to most fully &C
oomplish its design. The commissioner of
roads shall be its chief executive officer. The
said board shall keep record of its proceed
ings and file of its vouchers; prescribe regula-
tons for the purchase care, preservation and
transfer of implements and other property
from the outgoing officer to the incoming one,
requiring necessary vouchers. The commits
sioner of roads shall annually make written
report to the board on the condition of the
roads and bridges, the operations of the closing
year, the items, condition, numb Der and dis
position of the district property, with such re-
commentators for future action as he may
| deem proper. His annual report shall be pub
lished for the information of the constituency.
! The compensation of the members of the road
board shall be one dollar and fifty cents per
day for each day that they shall be in attend
ance upon the meetings of the board, to be
paid with cost of necessary stationery and
printing out Of the fund appropriated for the
road district.
II. The road precincts shall remain as now
laid out and described by metes and boundary
in the several magisterial districts until chang
ed by the road board as hereinafter provided.
The said board shall have power, and it shall
be its duty, to make such changes therein as
may be proper. When any change is made in
the road precincts, it shall be reported to the
county clerk, who shall keep record of the
same in book kept for that purpose and also
the said county clerk shall keep a record of all
the road overseers who. when appointed b.
the road board, shall be reported to him, and
it shall be the duty of the said board to report
all appointments of overseer to the said coun-
ty clerk.
| II. The road commissioner of each district
shall cause to be erected at all points where
roads cross or intersect or diverge from each
other, suitable indicators, showing the next
most prominent place on the road and the dis
lance. Any person who defaces, removes, or
in any way Injuries such indicator, shall pay a
fine of five dollars. to be recovered by the com
missioner of roads upon the judgment of a
justice of the peace, by proceedings instituted
| in the name of the board of the road board.
Any oyerseer shall have power to enter upon
any lands adjoining his road to make neces-
sary repairs, drains or bitches ANY person
drainage of the roads shall pay fine of one
dollar for every day it continues and the cost
of the removal, the damage done the roads,
and the costs of proceeding against such person
by the commissioner of roads before justice
to payment. The commissioner of roads shall
be empowered to administer OathS and affirma-
tions.
49, Every public road hereafter established
in the county of Augusta shall be thirty feet
wide, and the grade of such road shall not ex.
coed five degrees at any one point. The road
board of any district may however, by specia
order, establish a different width or grade.
IA. When any person applies to the county
court to have a bridge therein established OF
! altered, the court shall refer such application
, which shall be in writing, describing as accu
| rately as possible the desired road or bridge
to the road board of the magisterial district in
which the whole or greater part thereof is tC
be located, and thereupon the said board shall
view the ground and report to the court thu
converter ces and inconvenience that will re
suit, as well as to individuals as to the public
if such road or bridge shall be as proposed es
tablished, and especially whether any yard
garden, orchard, or any part thereof, will II
such case have to be taken.
49, The board shall particularly report the
facts and circumstances in its opinion usefu
! in enabling the court to determine the expedi
ency of establishing or altering the road o
bridge. 1t may examine other routes thai
that proposed for any road, and report i'll favo
of the one it prefers. with the reasons for the
preference. The report shall state the name:
of the land owners on each route, and stat
which of them require compensation, thu
probable amount, in the opinion of the com
! missioners or viewers, to which such party
! may be entitled, to what amount any person
thr )ugh whose lands any road is opened may
be benefited thereby, and any other matte
! which may be deemed pertinent. map O.
diagram shall be returned with the report
and for that purpose, the board may, if it SCI
fit, employ surveyor.
Is. Upon the return of the report, summons
shall be awarded against the proprietors o
) the land which shall be served in person /
they be residents of the county and if not
upon any agent or attorney or tenant of thu
land If there be no agent, attorney or tenan
: within the county, service may be had b.
; publication for one week in some newspape
published in the county. The summons O
publication shall be to show cause at the tern
of the court to which it may be returnable
; why the said road shall not be opened or th
bridge built and the cost of the same; and tn
compensation of the road board shall be pait
by; he road board of the district out of it
funds, except that the court may, in its dis
1 cretion, render judgment for the same agains
the applicant should the application be denied
:, II. The court shall hear evidence for an
: against the report of the road board, and TO
= and against the assessment OF damages to an.
landowner and may decide the same upol
4. point three freehoders, who shall go upol
! the land and make further report, both as t.
/ the ACCESSIBILITY of opening the road or tn
J damages thereof, or to any landowner, o
), any other matter that the court may assign t
/, them; and this report may be read in conneC
/ ton with the other report and the evidenc
{ heard upon the application.
: Is. If the court shall be of opinion that tn
T. road should be opened or bridge built it shal
II so direct, and the clerk shall certify its orde
e to the road commissioner of the district VIII
/, shall cause it to be executed: provided, how
u eyer, if the cost of opening the road, or builC
q ing the bridge, and the damages to the lane
), owners, shall exceed the sum of one hundre
= and fifty dollars, the said road shall not b
; opened, or the bridge built, until the board {
supervisors shall approve the same and max
/ an appropriation therefor out of the count
u levy.
> 10. No road shall be established throug
e any lot in an incorporated town without th
'e consent of the proprietor thereof, or throug
Il the land of any cemetery, or any seminary {
Is learning, without the consent of the ownt
Z thereof, or the corporate authorities
Il 20. Should any member of the road boar
be unable, and should the court think it in
y proper for him to act under the sixteenth