Chap. 231.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 20 of an act entitled an act to
amend and re-enact chapter 573 of the acts 1891 and 1892, entitled an act for
opening and keeping in repair the public roads of Pulaski county, as amended
by an act passed March 2, 1892, as amended by an act passed January 25, 1898,
as amended by an act passed February 28, 1898, as amended by an act passed
March 6, 1900, as to the limit of the road levy in Pulaski county, and the dis-
tribution of the funds derived thereunder.

Approved May 14, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
twenty of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact chapter five hun-
dred and seventy-three of the acts of eighteen hundred and ninety-one
and eighteen hundred and ninety-two, entitled an act for opening and
keeping in repair the public roads of Pulaski county, as amended by an
act passed March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, as amended
by an act passed January twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight,
as amended by an act passed February the twenty-eighth, eighteen hun-
dred and ninety-eight, as amended by an act passed March sixth, nineteen
hundred, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 20. That for the purpose of this act the board of supervisors may an-
nually levy a capitation tax of fifty cents on every male citizen over the age
of twenty-one years, and a tax not to exceed thirty-five ccnts on tire one
hundred dollars on the assessed value of the real estate and personal pro-
perty in the respective magisterial districts of the county of Pulaski, for
the benefit of the road fund: provided, that the taxes collected for road
purposes in each magisterial district shall be expended on the roads in
which it is collected, except that the taxes for road purposes derived from
railroads, telephone, and telegraph companies shall be equally divided be-
tween the several magisterial districts of said county. It is further pro-
vided that this act shall in no wise affect sections five and six of an act
entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors of Pulaski county to
borrow money for the construction of and repair to the bridge across New
river at Towe’s Ferry, in Pulaski county, approved December twenty-first,
nineteen hundred and one.

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