vassers. for the purpose of buying any junk or other matter or things for any such junk dealer, or for sale to a junk dealer, the sum of twenty-five dollars for each canvasser appointed and licensed.

CHAP. 306.-An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Princess Anne county to donate the sum of $300 for the completion of payment of contract for the erection of Confederate monument at Princess Anne Courthouse.

Approved March 17, 1906.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the board of supervisors of Princess Anne county be, and are hereby, authorized to donate the sum of three hundred dollars out of the county treasury to complete the payment of the contract for the erection of the Confederate monument at Princess Anne courthouse, November fifteen, nineteen hundred and five.

2. The debt being now due, thereby creating an emergency, this act shall be in force from its passage.

CHAP. 307.-An ACT to make the superintendent of public instruction exofficio a member of the board of visitors of the university of Virginia.

Approved March 17, 1906.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the superintendent of public instruction for the State shall be ex-officio a member of the board of visitors of the university of Virginia. He shall constitute a member of such board in addition to the nine other members thereof, which the governor of Virginia is authorized to appoint by and with the advice of the senate in pursuance of section fifteen hundred and forty-two of the Code of Virginia, so as to make the number of members of the said board ten in place of nine; and he shall have all powers, duties, and responsibilities that are vested in and imposed upon the other members of the board by the said Code of Virginia.

CHAP. 308.-An ACT upon the subject of county roads, causeways, and bridges, etc., and providing for the further division of counties into road subdistricts; for additional road tax therein; for election and appointment of officers of same, providing for their terms of office, powers, duties, etc., and duties of the State engineer in connection with the carrying into effect of this act.

Approved March 17, 1906.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, as follows:

2. The board of supervisors of each county throughout the State, which has not a special road law in force therein, may divide their respective counties into road subdistricts, by specified boundaries so locating such

boundaries as to place the residence and property of those persons who chiefly use the public roads of each road subdistrict, and are especially interested therein, as far as practicable, within such road subdistricts, respectively, and having in view also so dividing all the public roads of each county as to place upon tax payers of each road subdistrict their fair proportion of such roads on the basis of the comparative expense of maintenance of same, so that no less than ten nor more than thirty miles of public roads shall be contained in any one subdistrict. These areas shall be called road subdistricts; they shall be numbered with cardinal numbers, and their boundaries and number may be changed from time to time at the discretion of the board of supervisors. A full record of such road subdistricting shall be kept on the journal of the board of supervisors.

3. After the laying off of the road subdistricts, each member of the board of supervisors, respectively, shall, after fifteen days' notice, posted at every postoffice in the road subdistricts, respectively, located in the portion of the county represented by such supervisor, appoint and call in the month of July or August a meeting of all persons having a right to vote at all such road subdistrict meetings, respectively, such meetings to be held at some convenient place in each such road subdistrict, for the adoption of by-laws; for election of a chairman, secretary, treasurer, and one or more road surveyors for such road subdistricts, respectively, and for such other purposes as may be lawfully acted upon by such meetings. 4. At such meetings, and all subsequent road subdistrict meetings hereinafter provided for, all male persons qualified to vote for members of the general assembly of Virginia residing in such road subdistrict shall be entitled to vote upon all questions concerning such subdistrict road affairs; and any person entitled to vote at any such meeting may be chosen thereby as a road surveyor of such road subdistrict.

5. It shall be the duty of said member of the board of supervisors representing that portion of the county in which such road subdistrict is located, to furnish the meeting in question with a copy of this act (the same to be furnished to him by the secretary of the Commonwealth). and such act shall either be read to the meeting or the substance thereof explained by the chairman. This being done the secretary shall make a list of all persons present entitled to vote. If it be ascertained that less than one-fourth of the persons of the road subdistrict entitled to vote are present, the meeting shall be adjourned from time to time until at least one-fourth in number of such persons are in attendance. Such attendance of one-fourth in number of such persons shall be necessary for the transaction of business in this organization meeting and in all subsequent meetings hereinafter provided for.

6. When it shall be ascertained that the meeting is lawfully constituted to transact business it shall then proceed to adopt by-laws to define and provide for the manner of calling future road subdistrict meetings, annual and special; what person shall preside over same; the proceedings thereat; the method of voting; except that all voting at this and at all subsequent meetings shall be by written ballots; the duties of the chairman, secretary, treasurer, and road surveyor of such road subdistrict; and for the

government of other matters pertaining to the welfare of the roads and bridges of the road subdistrict not contrary to law. The by-laws may be changed or added to at any lawful meeting of the road subdistrict, annual or special.

7. The officers of each road subdistrict shall be a chairman, secretary, treasurer, and one or more road surveyors, who shall hold their offices for one year and until their successors are chosen and shall qualify. Before entering upon their terms of office such officers shall take the oath prescribed by section eight hundred and twelve of the Code of Virginia, and shall give such bonds in the penalty and with such surety as may be prescribed by the by-laws aforesaid: provided, that the treasurer shall give bond of the form prescribed by law for county treasurers in the penalty of double the total amount of the subdistrict road tax tickets that shall be placed in his hands for the current year, with a solvent surety company, doing business in this State as surety. The compensation of such. officers, respectively, so far as same is to be paid out of the subdistrict road funds, shall be provided for by each road subdistrict in annual meeting.

8. The first election of said officers shall be at said organization meeting and subsequent elections of same shall be at annual road subdistrict meetings. Vacancies occurring between annual meetings shall be filled by the remaining officers of such subdistrict until the next annual meeting. Should the said officers or any of them not be elected or appointed as above provided, the board of supervisors of the county, after thirty days' vacancy of such offices, or any of them, shall fill same by appointment, and appointments thus made shall be valid until the next annual road subdistrict meeting.

9. It shall be the duty of the secretary of each subdistrict to keep a record in a book preserved for the purpose, of all proceedings of such subdistrict meetings, and of all warrants issued by such subdistrict, showing the dates, to whom, for what, and amounts of all such warrants, and such secretary shall report to the clerk of the board of supervisors, within ten days after every subdistrict meeting all action taken by such meetings.

10. Special road subdistrict meetings may be called at any time by the chairman thereof, or, on application in writing of five persons entitled to vote at such meetings, as above provided, such chairman shall call such meeting.

11. The annual road subdistrict meetings, subsequent to the organization meetings, shall be held during the month of July or August of each and every year, and other special meetings at such times as they may be called, as above provided. Annual and special meetings may be held at any place for which they are called within the road subdistrict, and may be adjourned from time to time to any place within such subdistrict, and at all such meetings a majority vote of those entitled to vote as above provided, shall be decisive of all questions voted upon thereat.

12. If the chairman of the road subdistrict unreasonably refuse to call a road subdistrict meeting, a justice of the peace of the district in which such subdistrict is located, upon application of five or more persons of

such subdistrict entitled to vote at the meetings thereof as above provided, may call such meeting, annual or special, by a warrant, under his hand, directed to any constable of the district, if any, otherwise to any person applying therefor, directing same to summon the persons entitled to vote at such meeting as above provided, to assemble at the time and place and for the purpose expressed in the warrant.

13. The State engineer, or any agent of his, the member of the board of supervisors representing the district in which such meetings are held, and the superintendent of roads of the county or his deputy having charge of such district, shall be entitled to be present at any of said meetings and take part in the discussion of any and all questions and to give advice and instruction, but shall not be entitled to vote thereat by virtue of this section.

14. Said organization meetings and said annual meetings thereafter, respectively, may by a majority vote (which shall also include a majority of the freeholders of such subdistrict), make, grant, and vote in favor of a special levy for the ensuing year as a subdistrict road tax, of such an amount as they may deem necessary, not exceeding fifty cents on the one hundred dollars of taxable values in such subdistrict, upon which the levy thereof shall be made as hereinafter provided, in addition to the other road taxation otherwise provided for by law, for the further maintenance of the roads and bridges of such subdistrict, including the compensation of the officers of such subdistrict, if any, and all other necessary charges affecting such roads and bridges, not otherwise borne and paid for by the other road funds and road authorities provided for by law; and the result of such vote, showing the total number of freeholders in such subdistrict, the number of freeholders voting for, the total number of all votes for and against such levy, and the amount voted for, shall be certified by the chairman and secretary of the meeting to the clerk of the board of supervisors of the county, who shall record same in a book to be kept in his office for the purpose. Thereupon, if the result of such vote be a majority in favor of such levy, and such majority shall include also a majority of the freeholders of such subdistrict, the secretary of said road subdistrict shall, in a book kept for the purpose, appor tion and extend such levy against the owners of all property, real and personal, within such road subdistrict, and other subjects of taxation which should be taxed therein, as herein provided, which may be as sessed against such owners and subjects of taxation upon the land and property books of the county for the current year, and at the valuation fixed by such books. Thereafter such secretary shall make off from such books, kept by him as aforesaid, tax tickets against the proper persons for such subdistrict road tax levy, and place them in the hands of the treas urer of such road subdistrict on or before November first of the current year; and such treasurer shall proceed to collect the same; and on all such tickets not paid by December first of the current year there shall be five per centum of the amount thereof added thereto. Such road subdistrict treasurers for the collection of such subdistrict road tax, shall have all the powers of distress and levy that may be given by law to county treasurers for the collection of other taxes; and each such tax

ticket which may not be paid in any year, shall be attached to the tax ticket rendered against the same person for the succeeding year or years, until paid; no statute of limitations shall apply to the same, and the subdistrict treasurer shall have the same powers from year to year with respect to the collection of all such uncollected tax tickets as he may have with respect to tax tickets for the current year; and such respective subdistrict road funds shall be paid out by the subdistrict treasurer thereof upon warrants signed by the chairman and countersigned by the secretary of such subdistrict board of the form hereinafter prescribed; and reports shall be made by such treasurer, annually, to the subdistrict annual meeting, and settlement shall be made by such treasurer, annually, preceding such annual meeting, with the road subdistrict board, with respect to such road subdistrict funds, and the result of such settlement shall be promptly certified to the clerk of the board of supervisors of the county, who shall record same in a book to be kept in his office for the purpose. Every road subdistrict treasurer on going out of office shall deliver to his successor all uncollected tax tickets, books, and papers belonging to his office, and all money belonging to his road subdistrict fund; and such successor shall have the same powers with respect to the collection of all such uncollected tax tickets as he may have with respect to tax tickets for the current year. For every branch of any condition of the bond of every road subdistrict treasurer, action shall be brought at the relation of his successor, and such successor shall institute same promptly on coming into such office, for the benefit of the road subdistrict, before a justice of the peace, if for a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, and if for a sum exceeding that amount, then in the circuit court of the county, or the same may be recovered by motion in said court, after fivedays' notice. Upon any judgment rendered in such suit or motion a writ of fieri facias may issue, which shall conform in all respects to writs of fieri facias issued under chapter thirty of the Code of Virginia, one thousand nine hundred and four, and be proceeded with in the same manner. 15. The road surveyor, or surveyors, of each road subdistrict shall keep the public roads in his subdistrict well trimmed, clear of shade, clear of loose rock, overhanging trees, from gates unlawfully kept up, from all other unlawful obstructions and secure from falling or dead timber; shall keep open proper drains and turn the water from the road as much as practicable; and shall do such other work upon the public roads and bridges in his subdistrict as he shall be directed to do by the board of supervisors of his county, and the subdistrict road meetings, annual or special, of his subdistrict, and in accordance with the plans and specifications, if any, which may have been made for the working and keeping in repair the roads and bridges of such subdistrict, by the State engineer, and the board of supervisors of the county or other authorities, as may be provided by law, either under contract or by force account, as may be determined by such meetings, with respect to work to be paid for by the road subdistrict and as may be determined by the board of supervisors with respect to work to be paid for by the county and district road fund; the work directed to be done by the board of supervisors to be paid for by the county and district road fund, and the work directed to be done by the