CHAP. 131.—An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the county
of Prince George to undertake the building of an improved road from
the corporetion line of the city of Petersburg to the village of City
Point, in the said county, und:zr the direction and in accordance with
the plans and specifications of the State highway commission; to ac-
cept trom the city of Petersburg, for this purpose, a contribution,
which Fas alreedy been tendered, of $25,000.00, to accept from the E.
I. Iu Pont de Nemours and Company, for this purpose, a contribu-
tion which has already been tendered of $25,000.00, and to accept from
abutting property owners and other persons interested, otner con-
tributions which may hereafter be tendered for this purpose, and to
borrow from time to time, the sum of $40,000.00 or so much thereof
as may be necessary to complete the building of said road in ac-
cordance with the plans and specifications aforesaid. (H. B. 240.)

Approved March 9, 1916.

Whereas, The E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company has
agreed to contribute the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars
towards the building of a permanently improved road from the
village of City Point, in Prince George county, Virginia, to the
corporation line of the city of Petersburg; and

Whereas, The city of Petersburg, in consideration of the
premises and in accordance with the act of the general assembly
of Virginia, approved on the seventh day of February, nineteen
hundred and ten, has agreed to contribute the further sum of
twenty-five thousand dollars for the purpose aforesaid upon the
condition that the county of-Prince George undertake the build-
ing of said road under the supervision and according to the
plans and specifications of the Virginia State highway com-
mission; and

Whereas, The board of supervisors of Prince George county,
at its regular meeting on the third day of January, nineteen
hundred and sixteen, unanimously resolved that the construc-
tion of such a permanently improved highway, between the
points aforesaid, would be a great benefit to the people of Prince
George, and unanimously agreed to appropriate the sum of forty
thousand dollars for the purpose aforesaid, provided, however,
that the cost of the improvement aforesaid, to the said county
of Prince George, shall not exceed the sum of forty thousand
dollars; provided further, that the said sum of forty thousand
dollars, or so much thereof as may be needed, shall be advanced
to the said county of Prince George by the said E. I. Du Pont
de Nemours and Company to be paid back in four (4) equal
annual installments during the calendar years of nineteen hun-
dred and sixteen, nineteen hundred and seventeen, nineteen hun-
dred and eighteen, and nineteen hundred and nineteen; provided
further, that before said resolution shall become final and bind-
ing upop the said county of Prince George, the said Virginia
State highway commission shall obtain from some reliable con-
tractor a bid for the construction of the said road and the bridges
thereon, and that any sum or sums of money, in excess of the
sum of ninety thousand dollars, which may be required for the
completion of the said work, shall be raised by citizens of the
county of Prince George and of the city of Petersburg, or by
some one for them, and paid over in cash to the treasurer of the
said county of Prince George for the purpose of completing
the work aforesaid, and moreover that a duly certified copy of
the said resolutions shall be submitted to the said E. I. Du Pont
de Nemours and Company and the terms thereof accepted by
the said company; and

Whereas, the said E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company
has indicated its willingness to lend to the said county of Prince
George, for the purpose aforesaid, a sum, not in excess of the
sum of forty thousand dollars, to be paid back in four (4) equal
annual installments, as above mentioned, but a doubt has arisen
as to the power of the board of supervisors of Prince George
county to contract the debt aforesaid; now, therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the board of supervisors of Prince George county be and is
hereby authorized to undertake the building of the road afore-
said, under the supervision and according to the plans and
specifications of the Virginia State highway commission, and
is further authorized to accept the contribution of twenty-five
thousand dollars heretofore tendered for this purpose, by the
city of Petersburg; to accept the contribution of twenty-five
thousand dollars heretofore tendered for this purpose by the
E. J. Du Pont de Nemours and Company, and to accept from
abutting property owners, citizens of Prince George county,
citizens of the city of Petersburg and other persons interested,
whatever sum or sums of money may be required in excess of
the sum of ninety thousand dollars, and is further authorized
and empowered to borrow from time to time so-much money as
may be necessary for the purpose of building the road and
bridges aforesaid, provided however that at no time shall the
amount borrowed exceed the sum of forty thousand dollars.

2. The said sum of forty thousand dollars, or so much
thereof as may be borrowed, shall be repaid out of any sum or
sums of money, which may be received by the said county from
the United States government, or from the State money aid fund
on account of this road, or out of a county road levy, which shall
not exceed forty cents on the one hundred dollars of assessed
value of the real and personal property of the said county, to
be made for the years nineteen hundred and sixteen, nineteen
hundred and seventeen, nineteen hundred and eighteen and nine-
teen hundred and nineteen.

8. The ordinance heretofore adopted by the city of Peters-
burg, appropriating the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, as
4 contribution for the purpose aforesaid, in accordance with the
act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved on the seven-
eenth day of February, nineteen hundred and ten, entitled an
act to enable incorporated towns and cities to contribute to the
building or improvement of public roads and bridges leading to
such towns or cities is hereby ratified, approved and confirmed.

4. An emergency existing by reason of the fact that unless
the said sum of forty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as
may be needed, can be borrowed at once, the county of Prince
George will lose the contribution heretofore tendered for the
purpose aforesaid and will be unable to construct a road between
the points aforesaid, capable of bearing the traffic requiring the
use of such a road, this act shall be enforced from its passage.