CHAP. 38.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to en-
able incorporated towns and cities to contribute to the building or
improvement of public roads and bridges and to the purchase of such
bridges as may be so needed and are owned either by corporations or
individuals, leading to such towns or cities, approved February 17,

1910. (H. B. 13.)
Approved February 17, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
an act 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, approved February sev-
enteenth, nineteen hundred and ten, be amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows: "

Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That any incorporated town or city, acting by and through its
council, or governing body, may, when in the judgment of such
council or governing body such action will tend to promote the
material interest of such town or city, contribute funds or other
aid within the control of such town or city toward the building
or improvement of permanent public roads leading to such town
or city, or of bridges or to purchase such bridge upon such
roads; provided, that no such contribution shall be made to-
ward the building or improvement of any such road or bridge
at any point more than forty miles beyond the corporate limits
of such town or city, as measured along the route of such road.