Chap. 429.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of an act entitled an
act to provide a special road law for the county of Fauquier; to provide
for the working and keepin in repair of the public roads in said county
and to create separate district road boards in each of the several magis-
terial districts of said county; to authorize the erection of tollgates
and the collection of tolls upon certain public roads therein; and making
certain provisions for the construction, working, maintenance, etc., of said
roads, and to levy a tax for said purposes in said county and in the sev-
eral magisterial districts thereof; and to repeal all special acts heretofore
enacted in reference to the public roads of said county; and to validate
the official acts of certain officers under the laws heretofore in effect in

said county, approved March 24, 1920. [S B 362]
Approved March 24, 1922.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion seven of an act entitled an act to provide a special road law for
the county of Fauquier; to provide for the working and keeping in
repair of the public roads in said county and to create separate road
boards in each of the several magisterial districts of said county ;
to authorize the erection of toll gates and the collection of tolls upon
certain public roads therein; and making certain provisions for the
construction, working, maintenance, et cetera, of said roads, and tc
levy a tax for said purposes in said county and in the several magis-
terial districts thereof; and to repeal all special acts heretofore en-
enacted in reference to the public roads of said county; and tc
validate the official acts of certain officers under laws heretofore 11
effect in said county. approved March twenty-four, nineteen hundrec
and twenty, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows

Sec. 7. The board of supervisors of Fauquier county shall annu
lly levy along with the county levy a road tax upon the property,
‘eal and personal, assessable for taxation, in the several magisterial
districts, which shall be applied to the construction, the working,
<eeping in order, and repairing the public roads in such district.
Such tax shall not be less than twenty cents upon the one hundred
dollars in value of such property, and the same shall be collected,
accounted for and paid out on the warrants of the several district
boards, and the fund collected from each magisterial district shall be
Kept separate by the county treasurer, and a different rate of tax
may be prescribed by the board of supervisors for the different
districts in the county. The amount collected in each district shall be
expended therein, and for such road purposes and in such manner
as the board of said district may see fit. And in addition to the
district tax aforesaid the board of supervisors of said county may
annually levy along with the county levy a county road tax to be
used in permanently improving the roads of said county, or to obtain
the benefit of any laws which may be passed granting State money
or other aid to the county or district highways or roads, or in co-
operating with private subscribers for said improvements, said county
road levy to be used in and apportioned throughout the county as
may be decided by the said board of supervisors. And further the
said board of supervisors of said county is hereby authorized, in
addition to the levies aforesaid, upon the application ot the road
board of said district, to levy a tax in any magisterial district of said
county not to exceed the sum of ninety cents upon the one hundred
dollars in value of the taxable property in said district in which
said tax may be levied, for the purpose of building macadam, gravel,
sand-clay, or other types of permanently improved road, the construc-
tion of culverts, or the metalling and permanent grading and drain-
ing of such roads as the district road board may designate, said work
to be done upon the supervision of the several district road boards,
the fund derived from any such levy to be kept in a separate account
by the treasurer of the county and paid out on warrant of the
district road board; provided, however, that the intention to levy
such tax, the amount of tax and the roads and road purposes for
which it is to be used, be first published in two county papers for three
successive issues.

Sec. 7%. An emergency existing, this act shall be in effect from
its passage.