CHAP. 349.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to
authorize the board of supervisors of Spotsylvania county to give
rebates or refunds on tolls collected from those traveling the improved
roads of said county who have meade or shall hereafter make private
subscriptions to the building of roads or bridges in said county and
to those residing four miles or less from any toll gate and habitually
using four miles or less of improved road and limiting the toll rates,
approved February 5, 1915, and to secure an accounting or las col-

lected 29.)
Approved March 20, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
an act entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors of
Spotsylvania county to give rebates or refunds on tolls collected
from those traveling the improved roads of said county who
have made or shall hereafter make private subscriptions to the
building of roads or bridges in said county and to those resid-
ing four miles or less from any toll gate and habitually using
four miles or less of improved road and limiting the toll rates,
approved February fifth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

The board of supervisors of Spotsylvania county is hereby
authorized, if in its discretion it deem it wise and convenient,
to give a rebate or refund on tolls paid by persons or associa-
tions passing through the toll gates in said county who have
made or shall hereafter make private subscriptions to the build-
ing or repair of roads or bridges in said county to an amount
not exceeding the subscription, and, also to those residing one
mile or less from any toll gate and habitually using one mile or
less of improved road to an amount not exceeding four-fifths of
their tolls, to those residing two miles or less from any toll gate
and habitually using two miles or less of improved road to an
amount not exceeding three-fifths of their tolls, to those residing
three miles or less from any toll gate and habitually using three
miles or less of improved road to an amount not exceeding two-
fifths of their tolls, to those residing four miles or less from any
toll gate and habitually using four miles or less of improved
road to an amount not exceeding one-fifth of their tolls at the
usual and fixed rate for all traffic. The superintendent of roads
in all questions of rebate or refund of tolls under this act shall
have a vote, his vote to have the same weight and effect as any
one member of the board of supervisors.

The toll rates for passing through any toll gate in Spotsyl-
vania county shall not exceed those fixed by State law for each
five miles of State turnpike road unless the toll gates be more
than five miles apart along such improved road, then they may
exceed them by one-fifth additional or less for each additional
mile over five between said toll gates for not exceeding five miles,
provided the increase applies to every class and kind of vehicle,
machine, automobile, locomobile, motorcycle and road traffic in
the same proportion.
Whenever the said board of supervisors has erected or shall
hereafter ¢rect toll gates and employ keepers thereof, the said
keepers shall keep daily record of tolls received, using for that
purpose forms prepared by the said board and the clerk of the
board and furnish to such keepers, which shall show the num-
ber of each five cents, ten cents, fifteen cents, twenty cents,
twenty-five cents, thirty cents, thirty-five cents and forty cents
tolls, or the fractional part of such tolls taken and collected, and
the board of supervisors may devise and adopt such method of
checking up such toll gate receipts as it may deem necessary to
secure an accurate accounting thereof, and on or before the first
day of January and July of each year the said toll gate keepers
shall transmit a statement showing the amounts paid over to
superintendent of roads for the said county and the dates when
the same were paid to him to the clerk of the circuit court for
said county, who shall keep the same as a public record. The
board of supervisors may call to its assistance in preparing the
forms herein referred to, the attorney for the Commonwealth.

2. Because of the immediate necessity for rebating said
tolls, an emergency exists, and this act shall be in force from
its passage.