CHAP. 123.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5 and 10 of an act entitled
“an act to provide for the improvement and working of the roads of the county
of Henrico, and for the construction and repair of the br idges therein, ete,” and

the acts amendatory thereof, and to repeal section 7 of said act, approved
March 1, 1884.

Approved March 12, 1904.

1. Be 14 enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, ‘That section
seven of an act approved Marelh first, eighteen hundred and eighty-four,
entitled: “an act to provide for the improvement and working of the roads
of the county of Henrico, and for the construction and repair of the
bridges therein, and so forth, ” and of all acts amendatory thereof, be,
and the same is hereby, repealed, and sections five and ten of said act be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 5. The board of supervisors, or any road contractor, or the surveyor
of any road, may take from any convenient lands so much wood, stone,
gravel, or earth as may be necessary to be used in constructing, improv-
ing, or repairing such road or any bridge or causeway therein, and may,
for the purpose of draining the road, cause a ditch to be cut through any
lands adjoining the same: provided, however, such wood and other
articles be not taken from and such ditch be not cut through any lot in a
town, yard, or garden without. the consent of the owner. For any mate-
rial taken or ditch cut, compensation shall be allowed only as provided in
section nine hundred and eighty-six of the Code of eighteen hundred and
eighty-seven. Any contracts for applying gravel must be let out in sec-
tions not to exceed one hundred rods; each district supervisor shall desig-
nate what and what kind of gravel must be used; all stone three inches
in diameter and over must be taken out. No member of the board of
supervisors shall become financially interested in any contract or profits
of any contract lel by them under this act. Any violation of this pro-
vision shall subject the guilty to a fine of one hundred dollars.

$10. The said board of supervisors, for the purposes of this act, are
authorized and empowered to annually levy and fix, along with the
county levy, a tax upon all the property, assecssed for taxation in the
several magisterial districts within said county, of five cents on the hun-
dred dollars of the assessed value thereof, and may also set apart for said
purposes the amount derived from the tax imposed upon railroads for
county purposes, all of which is to be expended equally, as far as prac-
ticable, among the several magisterial districts of the county. And in
addition to the above, and for ihe purposes of this act, the said board of
supervisors are authorized and empowered to annually levy and fix, along
with the county levy, a tax upon all the property asse “ssed for taxation in
the several magisterial districts within said county, not excecding fifteen
cents on the hundred dollars of the assessed value thereof, and this tax
shall be expended within the same magisterial district in which it was
collected; and this tax may be prescribed for each magisterial district
within the said county at a different rate; and the treasurer of said
county shall keep separate the funds that are collected from this tax in
each of the magisterial districis, and shall pay out the same upon the
warrants of the board.