Chap. 142.—An ACT to authorize Essex county to borrow money, and issue
bonds for a sum not exceeding $2,500, in order to build a new bridge over
Piscataway creek.

Approved March 5, 1908.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
board of supervisors of Essex county be, and they are hereby, author-
ized to borrow money, not exceeding twenty-five hundred dollars, with
which to build a new bridge over Piscataway creek.

2. The said loan shall be effected by issuing the bonds of the county,
signed by the chairman of said board, and countersigned by the clerk,
payable not more than twenty years after the date of issue; the said
bonds to be in the denomination of one hundred dollars each, with
coupons attached for the semi-annual interest.

3. The said board of supervisors may fix the rate of interest which
the said bonds shall bear, but such rate shall not exceed six per
centum per annum.

4. The said board of supervisors shall have full power to negotiate
the said bonds, through an agent, or in any way they may think best,
and may deposit the proceeds in the L. E. Mumford bank of Tappahan-
nock, Virginia, subject to their order, pending the application of such
proceeds for the purposes for which they are raised: provided, however,
that they shall not negotiate six per centum bonds of the county for less
than par value.

5. On account of the necessity for the immediate use of the money
to be raised, this act is declared an emergency act, and shall be in force
from its passage.