CHAP. 246.—An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Culpeper
county to establish and maintain toll gates on the macadam roads of
said county. (H. B. 172.)

Approved March 16, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the board of supervisors of Culpeper county is hereby author-
ized and empowered, in its discretion, to erect and maintain
toll gates on such roads in the county of Culpeper, as may have
been heretofore or may be hereafter macadamized, charging
thereon such tolls as the board of supervisors may deem just
and prcper, to erect toll houses, to employ keepers, and to pro-
vide for the use of tolls collected in the maintenance of the
macadam roads heretofore macadamized or which may be here-
after macadamized, and allowing the board of supervisors to
make regulations as to the amount to be spent in each district
for the maintenance of macadam roads when two or more dis-
tricts shall have connecting macadam roads; provided, that if
the boards of supervisors shall at any time levy a tax on the
real and personal property in the town of Culpeper, or levy a
district road tax in excess of twenty-five cents on each one hun-
dred dollars of property, in Catalpa district, said board of
supervisors shall not establish toll gates in said district, nor
shall said board, at any time, levy a tax on the real and personal
property in the town of Culpeper, or levy a district road tax in
excess of twenty-five cents on each one hundred dollars of prop-
erty for Catalpa district while toll gates are in operation in
said district. Provided that this act shall not be put into effect,
in any district, unless tre same shall be petitioned for by five
or more taxpayers of such district, and not then if a greater
number of taxpayers shall petition for an increase in the dis-
trict road levy, over the levy of nineteen hundred and fifteen,
and a levy in the town of Culpeper, and said petitions shall not
be acted upon until notice of the time and place of the meeting
at which such petitions shall be heard shall be given by pub-
lishing such notice for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper
published in the town of Culpeper; provided further, that if the
board of supervisors of Culpeper county establish and maintain
toll gates on Th»rnton’s Gav turnpike in Salem magisterial] dis-
trict, the toll collected thereon after the payment of expenses
of the operation and maintenance of said gates, shall be by said
board of sup2rvisors set aside as a sinking fund or so much
thereof, as may be necessary, for the purpose to pay the annual
interest on and to retire and pay off and redeem the coupon
bonds issued by the local road board of Salem magisterial dis-
trict, under and by virtue of an act of the general assembly, ap-
proved February 5, 1916, entitled an act to authorize and em-
power the local road board of Salem magisterial district, in Cul-
peper county, Virginia, to issue bonds and raise money for the
purpose of providing for the building and completion of certain
roads in said magisterial district in said county; and said tolls
so collected and set aside by said board of supervisors OI said
county for the purpose of creating said sinking fund as here-
inbefore provided, or the proper disbursing officer of said funds,
shall pay over said funds to said local road board who is hereby
charged with paying the interest on and retiring and redeeming
said bonds; and the residue of said toll over and above the ex-
pense of the operation and maintenance of said toll gates and
over and above the necessary amount for the payment of the
annual interest on said bonds and retiring and redeeming said
bonds, shall, in the hands of said board of supervisors, con
stitute a separate sinking fund for the repair and upkeep of
said road in said district as herein provided.

2. An emergency existing because of the urgent need of
money for repairing the macadam roads in Catalpa district of
Culpeper county, this act shall be in force from its passage.