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1914
An ACT to amend and re-enact, so far as the county of Powhatan is concerned, an act of the general assembly of Virginia, entitled an act to provide for working of roads in the counties of Chesterfield, Powhatan and Goochland, approved March 3d, 1884.
An ACT providing for the protection of turnpikes that have been treated with bitumen or other artificial binder from injury by traction engines, tractors or motor trucks, and prescribing penalties for the violation thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 10 of chapter 10 of an act entitled an act concerning public service corporations, approved January 18, 1904, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 10 of an act concerning corporations, approved January 18, 1904, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 10 of an act entitled an act concerning public corporations, approved January 18, 1904, and providing for the continuance of annual tolls on turnpikes.
An ACT ceding jurisdiction to the United States government over certain tracts of land situated in Norfolk county, adjacent to the Chesapeake and Albemarle canal.
An ACT to authorize the Warrenton and Fairfax Turnpike Com- pany, Incorporated, to take possession of the turnpike leading from near Warrenton to Fairfax courthouse, and prescribing the terms and limitations of the same.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 10, sub-section 3 of an act approved January 30, 1888, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act to incorporate the town of South Boston, in the county of Halifax.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 138, 1912, entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors of Rockingham county, in the State of Virginia, to establish toll gates for the purpose of maintaining the macadam roads in said county.
An ACT to authorize and require the board of supervisors of Powhatan county, by and with the approval of a majority of the quali-
An ACT to authorize Albemarle and Buckingham counties to erect, build, and construct a bridge across James river, at Warren, Virginia, either at the point where a ferry is now being operated or within one mile thereof, and to maintain and operate the same as a free bridge, and to issue bonds for that purpose
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Greensville county to issue bonds of the county to be exchanged for or used in paying off the bonds of said county issued in payment for the stock of the Atlantic and Danville Railway Company, payable in 1914, providing a sinking fund for the payment of said bonds.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges of the county of Washington, and to authorize the board of supervisors to borrow money by the issue of bonds, and to build bridges and to macadamize the roads in said county, and to authorize the qualified voters of said county to vote on the question ag amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 848 of the Code of Vir.
An ACT providing for the opening, building and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges of Caroline county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 45 of an act entitled an act to provide a charter for the town of Lexington, approved April 28, 1874.
An ACT to provide for the issuing of county bonds for the county of Cumberland for permanent road improvement in Randolph magisterial district of said county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 515 of the acts of assembly of 1902-3 entitled an act to work and keep in repair roads and bridges in the county of Stafford, as amended and re-enacted by chapter 246 of the acts of 1908.
An ACT to add independent section 1l-a to an act approved March 12, 1912, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly, approved March 4, 1894, entitled an act to provide for the working and keeping in order the public roads of the counties of Greene and Madison, as amended by act approved May 14, 1903, so far as the same applies to Madison county, so as to provide for the opening, construction, maintaining and working the roads, and keeping in order the causeways and bridges of Madison and Greene counties, and creating the office of superintendent of roads, and prescribing his duties and compensation, and repeal any act in conflict herewith.
An ACT to impose a license tax on any person, firm, company or corporation selling newspapers, periodicals, magazines, candies, fruits, et cetera, on railroad trains in this State.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of any county of this State in which the State is a stockholder, to sanction and authorize the extension, construction, operation and maintenance of the line of turnpike road of any turnpike company of this State into, or through, such county, or any portion thereof, upon such terms as to tolls, and upon such conditions, as may be prescribed by such board of supervisors and accepted and agreed to by such company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 278 of assembly, anproved March 16, 1910, and entitled an act to require railroads to provide suitable caboose car on freight trains, and imposing a penalty for failure so to do.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 46 of an act to provide a new charter for the city of Bristol, and to repeal all other acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith, approved March 14, 1908.
An ACT to provide a road commission for Capeville magisterial district, in Northampton county, and to repeal previous acts.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-section F of section 2, chapter three of an act entitled an act concerning corporations, which became a law May 21, 1903.
An ACT to create for the county of Norfolk a commission of roads and bridges, and to prescrive the powers and duties of such com- mission, and thereby to provide for controlling, constructing and keep- ing in repair the public roads and bridges within said county, and, for acquiring, establishing, altering and vacating roads and bridges there- in; and to repeal an act entitled, an act for working and keeping in repair the public roads in Norfolk county, approved February 18, 18909, as amended by acts approved February 26, 1908, and March 14, 1910, respectively, and also to repeal an act entitled, an act for working and keeping in repair the public roads in Norfolk county, approved February 1, 1894.
An ACT requiring all railway corporations or receivers or lessees operating a standard gauge line of railway in this State, to equip its locomotive engines with electric headlight, or other headlights of not less than 500 candle power with the aid of a reflector, and providing a penalty for violation of this act.
An ACT to repeal the special road law as it applies to Nottoway
An ACT to amend and reenact section 9 of chapter 10, of chapter 609 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, 1902-3-4, relating to turnpike companies. (H. B. 48.)
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of chapter 3 of an act concerning public service corporations
An ACT to amend section 11 of an act entitled an act to establish a State highway commission, to define its powers and duties; the term of office, salary, and qualifications of the commissioner; to authorize the commissioner to call into consultation the professors of engineering in certain State institutions, and appropriating money to carry the provisions of this act into effect
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 3, and 4 of an act approved February 8, 1908, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 7, 1906, entitled an act to amend an act approved March 10, 1904, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved April 2, 1902, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide a road law for Campbell county, approved March 5, 1900, providing and regulating a road board for said county, and directing tha disbursement of the county road fund.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Middlesex county to order an election by the qualified voters of Middlesex county upon the question of making the free bridge across Urbanna creek, at Urbanna, a toll bridge, and providing the rate, and for the collection of tolls thereon, and the disposition of money received from tolls and for the ultimate erection of a permanent free bridge across Urbanna creek, at Urbanna, Va.
An ACT to provide for the payment and collection of tolls on the Apple Ridge Road in Frederick county, and for the improvement, repair and maintenance thereof.
An ACT to authorize Albemarle county, from time to time, as necessary, to borrow money and issue bonds for a sum not exceeding $40,000, for the purpose of uniting in the building, in the county of Albemarle, of State money aid or convict labor plan roads, as well as roads where private individuals contribute one-half the cost thereof, and to assist in securing undergrade crossings under the tracks of the Chesapeake and Ohio railway company and the Southern railway company, respectively, in the county of Albemarle.
An ACT to authorize the county of Elizabeth City to create a special or sinking fund to rebuild Hampton bridge, spanning Hampton river, in said county.
An ACT to appropriate $30,000.00, the unexpended appropriation heretofore made by the general assemby to provide for the working of certain long term or desperate convicts by the superintendent of the penitentiary, the governor and the commissioner of agriculture, for the manufacture of ground limestone and oyster shells, and incidentally for the disposition of the same, and the by-products suitable for road con-struction to the citizens of the State, so as to make this amount avail.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of an act approved March 13, 1912, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act for working and keeping in repair the roads of Tazewell county, approved February 24, 1888, and further to provide for permanent improvement of the roads in said county, approved February 29, 1892.
An ACT to amend and reenact an act entitled an act to amend the charter of the town of Chatham, in Pittsylvania county, approved April 24, 1874, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and reenact the charter of the town of Chatham, approved February 21, 1882, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and reenact section 4 of the charter of the town of Chatham, approved March 16, 1908.
An ACT to empower the board of supervisors of the county of Franklin to impose a capitation tax upon the residents of Franklin county, not to exceed $1.00 per annum for roads, or such other county purposes as the board may determine.
An ACT to permit Richard T. Ames, of the county of Accomac, to build a bridge across a branch of Onancock creek, in said county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 27, 1900, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 3, 1898, entitled an act to provide for the working and keeping in order all the public roads and bridges in the county of Hanover, and to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for the appointment of a road commissioner in each magisterial district in Hanover county and to define his duties and powers, approved February 25, 1892, (H. B. 486.)
An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act providing for working public roads in Prince Edward county, approved March the 3rd and March the 4th, 1896.
An ACT to authorize and direct the board of supervisors of Norfolk county, subject to certain specified conditions, to borrow a sum not exceeding $250,000.00 for the purpose of building, macadamizing or otherwise permanently improving public roads and bridges, and acquiring toll roads and toll bridges, in said county, and to issue bonds therefor, secured by a deed of trust on the interest of said county in the Norfolk county ferries; and to provide for the expenditure and application of the proceeds of said bond issue, and for the payment of said bonds.
An ACT to authorize the city of Norfolk to close the Cove street canal from the west side of Hampton court to the east side of Arlington place.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to create a road board for the county of Fauquier, and to provide for the working of the roads of said county, approved March 8, 1904, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 14, 1906, and as further amended by an act approved March 11, 1908, and to provide for the building and repair of bridges in said county, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 9, 1910.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 4, 1896, entitled an act providing for the working, opening and keeping in repair the roads of the county of Lunenburg, and for building and keeping in repair the bridges of said county, except that an amendment to said act known as section 14-a, providing for submitting to the qualified voters of the several magisterial districts in Lunenburg county the question as to the issuance of bonds by such magisterial district for the construction and repair of public roads in said magisterial district, which said amendment was approved March 12, 1912, is not to be affected hereby.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Botetourt county to borrow $20,000 for the purpose of building bridges across James river at Glen Wilton, and across Catawba creek on or near the Sweet Springs turnpike, in said county, and for the purpose of completing the permanent improvement of the public roads from Fincastle to Troutville and Daleville, in said county.
An ACT to authorize Cumberland county, from time to time, as necessary, to borrow money and issue bonds for a sum not exceeding $20,000.00 for the purpose of uniting in the building of roads in the county of Cumberland upon the State money aid plan.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of chapter 3 of an act to provide a charter for the city of Petersburg, approved March 11, 1875, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 17, 1910, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7 of chapter 1 of an act to provide a charter for the city of Petersburg, approved March 11, 1875, to amend and re-enact chapters 2, 3 and 5 of said act as amended by subsequent acts, and to amend and re-enact sections 4 and 5, and to repeal section 7 of chapter 6 of said act.
An ACT to dedicate as and for a public street and highway upon certain conditions, a strip of land composing the northwest corner of the capitol aquare, not exceeding 15 feet at the point of its greatest depth.
An ACT to authorize and empower the several magisterial districts of King William county to levy a license tax on all vehicles used or operated in the said districts, for the purpose of raising revenue for the construction, improvement and maintenance of the public highways and bridges of said districts in said county.
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 March 14, 1912.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-section 15 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact chapter 375, acts of 1891-92, as amended and re-enacted by chapter 588 of the acts of 1897-98, entitled an act for the working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges in the county of Wythe.
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of the county of Brunswick to issue bonds of the said county to an amount not exceeding $57,000.00 in exchange for and to raise funds to pay off the outstanding bonds of said county, issued by it in payment of its subscription to the capital stock of the Atlantic and Danville Railway Company.
An ACT to repeal an act entitled ‘An act to provide for working the roads, repairing bridges, and opening new roads in the counties of Frederick, Clarke, Warren and Augusta, approved February 26, 1884,” and all acts amendatory thereof, in so fur only as said act applies to Frederick county.
An ACT to authorize and direct the board of supervisors of Smyth county to pay to the town of Chilhowie a part of the road tax for the year 1913, paid on the property, real and personal, in said town, and collected by the county treasurer of said county of Smyth.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved January 29, 1898, by inserting clause number 43, to prevent the obstruction of public roads in the counties of Buchanan and Dickenson, and to provide for the erection of toll gates.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for the working of certain long-term or desperate convicts by the superintendent of the penitentiary, the governor, and the commissioner of agriculture, for the manufacture of ground limestone and oyster shells, and incidentally for the disposition of the same, and the by-products suitable for road construction, to the citizens of the State, approved March 14, 1912, adding the manufacture of ground marl.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February co, 1908, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved Februar;’ 23, 1898, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved May 20, 1903, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 15, 1906, providing for the working and keeping in repair the roads, and building and keeping in repair the bridges in the county of Essex, and providing what tax shall be used for the same, and to add thereto an independent section to be known as section 12-a.
An ACT to authorize and empower W. F. Mench, J. D. Parker, J. E. Burcher, I. D. Hertzler, H. A. Campbell and J. C. Curtis, their associates, successors, and assigns to building, construct, maintain and operate a toll bridge across Deep creek, in the county of Warwick, Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8, chapter 6, of an act approved February 17, 1890, entitled an act to incorporate the city of Danville, so that the council of said city shall have power and authority to construct, own, maintain and operate railway yards, tracks, depots and terminals, to purchase and condemn lands for said purposes and to lease and let the same.
An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Roanoke county to erect and maintain toll gates on the macadamized roads of said county.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Bedford county, in Virginia, to adopt any Jaws or parts of Jaws in force in any county of this State for repairing and keeping in order the public roads and bridges.
An ACT to repeal all acts heretofore approved to provide for working the roads, repairing bridges and opening new roads in the county of Augusta, except section 12 of an act approved February 9, 1910, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act to provide for working the roads, repairing bridges and opening new roads in the county of Augusta, etc., and to re-enact said section 12.
An ACT to authorize and empower W. F. Mench, J. D. Parker, J. E. Burcher, I. D. Hertzler, H. A. Campbell and J. C. Curtis, their associates, successors and assigns to build, construct, maintain and operate a toll bridge across and over Warwick river in the county of Warwick, Virginia, under certain conditions.
An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to transfer to the county of Frederick the State’s interest in so much of the Northwestern turnpike company as lies within the county of Frederick, approved February 26, 1884; and to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Frederick to transfer the said interest to the State corporation commission, (H. B. 474)
An ACT to prohibit the making, buying, selling, or giving away, of duplicate switch lock keys belonging to, or in use by, railroad companies, except when authorized by said companies, and providing a penalty therefor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for the establishing, altering, and building of public roads and bridges in the county of Shenandoah, and for the working and keeping the same in repair, approved February 8th, 1898, as amended and re-enacted by an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 14, 1912.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved May 16, 1887, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to release and transfer to the counties of Highland and Augusta the interest of the Commonwealth in the Staunton and Parkersburg turnpike road, et cetera.
An ACT to repeal chapter 272 of the acts of the general assembly, 1910, entitled an act to empower the county of Warwick to construct or aid in construction of a bridge across Deep creek, between Bucher’s (Burcher’s) landing and Menche’s landing and to authorize and empower said county to negotiate a loan and issue bonds for that purpose
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of an act for working the roads of Amherst county, approved February 20, 1912.
An ACT to dedicate as and for a public street or highway, upon certain conditions, a strip of land composing the southeast corner of the capitol square, not exceeding 11 feet 4 inches at the point of its greatest width.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Narrows, Virginia, and to repeal all other acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for a road law for Spotsylvania county, approved February 21, 1898, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for a road law for Spotsylvania county, approved March 14, 1908.
1915
An ACT to provide for the draining of the public highways of Accomac county through lands adjacent to said highways.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section sixteen of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act for the working of roads of Loudoun county, approved February 16, 1880, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 11 and 12 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2, 3, 11, 12, 18 and 14 of the act approved March 12, 1904, relating to the establishment, proper construction and permanent improvement of the public roads and landings, for building and keeping in good order and repair all roads, bridges, causeways, and wharves, and so forth, approved March 17, 1906, and as approved March 18, 1908.
An ACT to appropriate the sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars to help defray the expenses of the Richmond Light Infantry Blues’ Battalion as escort to the governor of Virginia on Virginia Day at the Panama Pucific International Exposition at San Francisco, California.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Spotsylvania county to give rebates or refunds on tolls collected from those traveling the improved roads of said county who have made or shall hereafter make private subscriptions to the building of roads or bridges in said county and to those residing four miles or less from any toll gate and habitually using four miles or less of improved road and limiting the a. Bei
An ACT to fix the situs for taxation of the rolling stock of electric railway corporations, and provide for the assessment thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges of the county of Washington, and to authorize the board of supervisors to borrow money by the issue of bonds, and to build bridges und to macadamize roads in said county, etc. and to authorize the board of supervisors of said county to open by condemnation or otherwise alter, discontinue, work, and Keep in order and repair the public roads and bridges of said county, approved March 7, 1900, and all acts amendatory thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to amend and re-enact section four of an act entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges of the county of Washington and to authorize the board of supervisors to borrow money by the issue of bonds and to build bridges and macadamize the roads of said county and to authorize the qualified voters of the said county to vote on the question as amended
An ACT to provide a special road law for the county of Fauquier; to provide for the working and keeping in repair of the public roads in said county and to create separate district road boards in each of the several magisterial districts thereof; to authorize the erection of toll gates and the collection of tolls upon certain public roads therein, and making certain provisions for the enforcement and correction of said tolls and the protection of the said roads, and the property of said district road boards, and providing certain penalties for the violation thereof, and to repeal all special acts heretofore enacted in reference to the public roads of said county, and to validate the official acts of certain officers under laws heretofore in effect in said county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of the county of Brunswick to issue bonds of the said county to an amount not exceeding $57,000.00 in exchange for and to raise funds to pay off the outstanding bonds of said county, issued by it in payment of its subscription to the capital stock of the Atlantic and Danville Railway Company, approved January 30, 1914; to ratify the action of the said board of supervisors to the extent that it has issued bonds of the county pursuant to said act; to authorize the said board of supervisors to issue coupon bonds, or registered bonds as provided in said act, in exchange for and to raise funds to pay off the balance of the outstanding bonds of said county issued by it in payment of its subscription to the capital stock of the said Atlantic and Danville Railway Company ; and to authorize the said board of supervisors, in its discretion, to issue coupon bonds authorized by this act in exchange for the registered bonds of the said county heretofore issued pursuant to said act approved
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 33 of an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schools, and to pay the interest on the public debt, and to provide a special tax for pensions as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution, approved April 16, 1903, as amended by an act approved March 12, 1908.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 and section 16 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act to provide for creating, working and maintaining public roads in Fairfax county, and defining the boundaries of the same, approved March 14, 1904; approved March 8, 1906; approved March 14, 1908; approved March 11, 1912.
An ACT to authorize and empower the several magisterial districts of Cumberland county to levy a license tax on all vehicles used or operated in said districts, for the purpose of raising revenue for the construction, improvement and maintenance of the public highways and bridges of said districts in said county.
An ACT to authorize and empower George N. Wise and Sterling Nottingham, their associates, successors and assigns, to build, construct, maintain and operate a toll bridge or private bridge across and over the northwest prong. of Back river, some times known as Wythe creek, lying between the counties of York and Elizabeth City, Virginia, under certain conditions.
An ACT to empower the board of supervisors of Princess Anne county to purchase or acquire certain toll roads and toll bridges in said county.
An Act to repeal section 24 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 7, 1906, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved April 2, 1902, entitled an act to provide a road law for Campbell county, approved March 5, 1900, providing and regulating a road board for said county and directing the disbursement of the county road fund, approved February 8, 1908, as heretofore amended, and adding thereto a new section 24 in lieu of the section hereby repealed.
An ACT to amend and re-enact, so far as the county of Powhatan is concerned, an act of the general assembly of Virginia, entitled an act to provide for working of roads in the counties of Chesterfield, Powhatan and Goochland, approved March 3, 1884, as amended by an act approved March 19, 1914.
An ACT to create a road board for Haytokah magisterial district of Nottoway county, and to provide for the working and repairing of roads in such district.
An ACT to authorize Cumberland county, from time to time as necessary, to borrow money and issue bonds for a sum not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars, in addition to the amount of twenty thousand dollars mentioned in the act approved March 25. 1914, pages 007 and 508 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, 1914, for the purpose of uniting in the building of roads in the said county of Cumberland upon the State aid plan.
An ACT to validate, ratify, approve and confirm certain bonds
An ACT to authorize Northampton county to borrow money and issue bonds for a sum not exceeding fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for the purpose of building, improving and maintaining the public roads of Eastville magisterial district in said county.
An ACT ratifying the proceedings authorizing an iysue of bonds by Lunenburg county for road improvement in Rehoboth magisterial district.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize any railroad company, with the consent of the State corporation commission, to construct, purchase or take a lease of any railroad not exceeding twenty-five miles in length, which will furnish a cut-off or connecting line for the more efficient and economical transportation of traffic
An ACT to add an independent section to an act entitled an act to provide for opening and keeping in repair the public roads of Pulaski county, as amended by an act approved March 14, 1908, so as to provide for the rehearing of a petition for the sale of bonds for the purpose of building and improving the roads or bridges of any district in said county.
An ACT to authorize, empower and direct the board of supervisors of Norfolk county to guarantee any bonds that may be issued by the supervisors of said county pursuant to the provisions of an act entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors of Norfolk county to borrow a sum not to exceed two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, for the purpose of purchasing and improving roads and bridges in said county, and to issue bonds therefor, secured by deed of trust or other lien on the interest of said county in the Norfolk county ferries; to provide for the payment of said bonds, to create and authorize a commission to dispense the funds so obtained, and authorize the circuit court of said county, or the judge thereof in vacation, to appoint the members of said commission.
An ACT to establish a ferry across Coan river in Northumberland county at or near Coan wharf.
An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Norfolk county to borrow a sum not to exceed two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, for the purpose of purchasing and improving roads and bridges in said county, and to issue bonds therefor, secured by deed of trust or other lien on the interest of said county in the Norfolk county ferries; to provide for the payment of said bonds, to create and authorize a commission to dispense the funds so obtained, and authorize the circuit court of said county, or the judge thereof in vacation, to appoint the members of said commission.