Chap. 84.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 18 of an act entitled an
act to provide for the opening and working of roads and keeping the
same in repair, and provide for erecting and maintaining bridges in
the county of Culpeper, approved January 25th, 1898, and as amended
and re-enacted March 14th, 1906, and as amended and approved
eed 21st, 1908, and as amended and approved February 26th,

Approved March 4, 1912.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section eighteen of an act entitled an act to provide for the open-
ing and working of roads and keeping the same in repair, and
provide for erecting and maintaining bridges in the county of
Culpeper, approved January twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and
ninety-eight, and as amended and re-enacted March fourteenth,
nineteen hundred and six, and as amended and approved Feb-
ruary twenty-first, nineteen hundred and eight, and as amended
and approved February twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and ten,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read hereafter as follows:

§18. The board of supervisors of the county of Culpeper |
shall annually levy, along with the county levy, a road tax upon
the property, real and personal, assessed for taxation in the sev-
eral magisterial districts, which shall be applied by the road
board for the several districts to the working, keeping in order
and repairing the public roads in their respective districts, and
to the payment and liquidation of any outstanding claims for
work done within the past five years in building, macadamiz-
ing, working, keeping in order and repairing the public roads
in their respective districts. Such tax shall not be more than
twenty-five cents upon every one hundred dollars in value of such
property, except as hereinafter provided, and different rates of
tax may be prescribed for the different magisterial districts.
Such tax shall be collected as if it were a county levy, except that
the funds from each magisterial district shall be kept separate
by the county treasurer, accounted for by him to the road board
of said district and paid out by him upon warrants of said
hoard, signed bv its chairman and clerk. The commissioners of
revenue and treasurer of the county shall receive the same com-
mission on such tax as if it were a county levy, the commissions
on the fund of each district to be paid out of said fund by the
road board for said district.

2. No authority existing for the payment of certain claims
against the road board of Caltapa magisterial district for road
work, an emergency exists, and this act shall be in force from
its passage.