Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1912-03-01
full TEXT OF THE
new ROAD LAW
A Measure That viii Make
Building of Roads Easy in
Tazewell County.

The following is the full text of
the road law introduced in the Legis-
lature recently by Senator Royal, of
Tazewell:
Be it enacted by the General As
sembly of Virginia. That an act en-
TITLED an act to amend and reenact an
act for working and keeping in re-
pair the roads of Tazewell county.
approved February twenty fourth,
eighteen hundred and eighty eight,
and further to provide for permanent
impro vement of the roads in said
county, approved February twenty
ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety
two, as amended and re-enacted by an
act approved February twelfth, eight
cen hundred and ninety y-four, as
amended by an act approved January
eleventh, nineteen hundr and MS
amended and enacted by an act
approved January twenty-seventh
nineteen hundred, and as amended
and re-enacted by an act approved
December eventcenth, nineteen hun
dred and one, and as amended and re-
enacted by an act approved March
eighth, nineteen hundred and ten, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read
as follows:
FIRST: That for the purpose of
establishing, altering and dscontinu-
ing, working and keeping in order
the roads and bridges of Tazewell
county and for all supervision and
control of same, there shall be and is
hereby created for each of the three
magisterial districts of the said
county, board of road commission
ers, to be composed of the supervisor
of such district. who shall be the
chairman, and two public spirited,
intelligent citizens who shall be qua
lifted voters of the district.
SECONDS: At the February term.
nineteen hundred and twelve, or
thereafter in vacation, and every two
years thereafter, there shall be ap-
pointed by the circuit court of said
county. upon the junt recommended
tion of the board of supervisors and
county. two intelligent, public spirit
ed citizens for each magisterial dist
rict, who shall be selected as far as
practicable from different sections of
said district and who shall be qualifi-
ed voters in the districts for which
they a~e appointed. These perso
shall qualify as such road commission
ners by appearing before the clerk of
the circuit court of Tazewell county
and taking and subscribing the oaths
of Office prescribed by law.
THIRD: The said two persons so
appointed and qualified for any mag
isterial district of said county, toget-
her with the supervisor of such dist
rict shall constitute the board of
road commissioners for such district.
FOURTH: The board of road com
mssioners shall, before the second
Tuesday in April, nineteen hundred
and twelve, meet at the courthouse
of Tazewell county anc organize by
electine one of their members clerk
of the board of road commissioners,
whose duty it shall be to keep re-
cord of the proceedings of all meet
ings of the board.
FIFTH: There shall be two regul-
ar meetings of the board of road COM
missioners in each year. One shall be
held on the second Tuesday in April
and the other on the second Tuesday
in September. Said meetings to be
held at the courthoudse, and the
board may hold other meetings at
such times and places as the super
visor, as chairman of the board, NAV
designate. provided that said commits
sioners shall not receive compensation
for more than six meetings during
any one year, except when they are
summoned and meet in cases of appli-
cation Off a new road, or changing OIL
disseminating an existing road, as
hereinafter provided for. The super.
visor and road commissioners hereby
provided for shall receive as compen.
sation two dollars and fifty cents fo,
each day actually engaged in the dut.
les devolving upon them under the
provisions Of this act. Said sums tc
be paid out of the district roads fund,
of the respective districts.
SIXTH: On the second Tuesday il
April of each year the board of roat
commissioners for each magisteria
district shall select and appoint ,
suitable person, for their respectiv,
districts 'as district superintendent
of roads.
SEVENTH: Such district superin
tendent of roads shall serve for th
term of one year from the date of hi
appoin tment.
EIGHTH: Each and every distric