Chap. 17.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an
act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 4, 1896, entitled
an act providing for the working, opening and keeping in repair the
roads of the county of Lunenburg, and for building and keeping in
repair the bridges of said county, except that an amendment to said
act known as section 14-a, providing for submitting to the qualified
voters of the several magisterial districts in Lunenburg county the
question as to the issuance of bonds by such magisterial district for
the construction and repair of public roads in said magisterial district,
which said amendment was approved March 12, 1912, is not to be
affected hereby, approved March 21, 1914. [H B 3]

Approved March 20, 19238.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section four of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an
act approved March fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six,
entitled an act providing for the working, opening and keeping
in repair the roads of the county of Lunenburg, and for build-
ing and keeping in repair the bridges of said county, except
that an amendment to said act known as section fourteen-a,
providing for submitting to the qualified voters of the several
magisterial districts in Lunenburg county the question as to the
issuance of bonds by such magisterial districts for the construc-
tion and repair of public roads in said magisterial district,
which said amendment was approved March twelfth, nineteen
hundred and twelve, is not to be affected hereby, approved
March twenty-first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

sec. 4. It shall be the duty of the district road board to
make out an estimate of the amount of money necessary to
properly work the roads of the district, and if it is found that
the funds arising from the county road tax is not sufficient to
keep the roads of the district in good repair, then the board of
supervisors shall levy a district road tax on all of the property
of the district, so as to increase the amount of revenue to the
estimated sum as stated by the district road board. No part of
this district tax for road purposes shall be prorated among the
other districts of the county, and the district tax for road pur-
poses shall not exceed the sum of fifty cents on the one hundred
dollars’ worth of property in the district; provided, that in any
district which has not authorized the issuance of road bonds a
district tax of not exceeding one dollar on the one hundred
dollars’ worth of property in the district may be levied.

2. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its
passage.