CHAP. 380.—An ACT to provide for the issuing of county bonds for per-
manent road and bridge improvement in Lexington magisterial dis-
trict, in Rockbridge county, Virginia, in accordance with an act of
the general assembly of Virginia, approved March 13, 1912, entitlec
an act to provide for the issuing of county bonds for permanent roac
or bridge improvement of the magisterial districts of the counties
of the State; to further provide that the order of the issuing of bond:
in the Lexington magisterial district of Rockbridge county shall be
issued by the circuit court of said county upon the petition of twenty
five freeholders of the Lexington magisterial district outside of th
corporate limits of the town of Lexington. (H. B. 4659.)

Approved March 20, 1916.

Whereas, under the charter of the town of Lexington, anc
acts amendatory thereof, the citizens and property within the
corporate limits of the town of Lexington are exempt from any
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road tax for the maintenance or construction of the roads in
Lexington magisterial district, and the number of voters in
said magisterial district who would have a right to vote upon
the question for road improvement is materially reduced in
number; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the circuit court of the county of Rockbridge, upon the petition
of twenty-five freeholders in that part of Lexington magisterial
district, outside of the corporate limits of the town of Lex-
ington in said county, shall make an order requiring the judges
of election at the next election of county officers, or any other
time, not less than thirty days, after the date of said order,
which shall be designated thereon, to open the poll and take
the sense of the qualified voters of such part of said Lexington
magisterial district, outside of the corporate limits of the town
of Lexington, whether the board of supervisors of said county
shall issue bonds for the purposes, or either of them, under the
provisions of an act of the general assembly, approved March
thirteenth, nineteen hundred and twelve, entitled an act to
provide for the issuing of county bonds for permanent road or
bridge improvement of the magisterial districts of the counties
of the State.

2. All the provisions of the said act, approved March thir-
teenth, nineteen hundred and twelve, shall apply to the elec-
tion, issuing of such bonds, or other proceedings had under
this act, except as herein provided.

3. It being desirable to get a vote under this act at an early
date, an emergency is hereby declared to exist and this act shall
take effect from its passage.