CnChap. 166.—An ACT to empower the several road boards of Clarke county to pur-
chase rock crushers for their respective districts, and to make provision for the
payment thereof.

Approved April 22, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the road
board of each magisterial district in the county of Clarke is hereby auv-
thorized and empowered to purchase for its respective district a rock
crusher for use on the public roads in said district: provided, the cost of
said rock crusher does not exceed the sum of one thousand dollars.

2. The said rock crusher, when so purchased, shall be the property of
the respective district for which it was purchased, and shall be used ex-
clusively on the public roads of that district.

3. The board of supervisors of the said county of Clarke shall include
in the annual levy next following the purchase of a rock crusher as above
authorized, upon the property and lawful subjects of taxation in the said
county, as a part of the county levy, a sum and tax sufficient to defray
the cost of such purchase.

. The said board of supervisors shall equalize, as far as possible and
practicable, their levy to meet expenditures under this act, so as to make
each district pay for its respective purchase of a rock crusher as above au-
thorized.

5. It shall be diserctionary with each of the road boards in the re
spective districts of said county whether they will take advantage of the
powers conferred under this act.

6. This act shall be in force from its passage.