Chap. 5.—An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Rockingham
county to borrow money by short time loans to enable it to meet the
expense of destroying cedar trees for the eradication of cedar rust as
provided by statute and to authorize said board to provide for the
payment of the principal and interest by special levies. [S B 11]

Approved March 15, 1923.

Whereas, it is provided by sections eight hundred and eighty-
nine and eight hundred and ninety-one of the Code of Virginia
of nineteen hundred and nineteen, that the damages allowed
and the expenses incurred in executing the law relating to the
eradication of cedar rust shall be paid in the first instance by
the county treasurer out of the general fund of the county, to
be afterwards reimbursed to the county fund in the manner
provided by the statute; and

Whereas, there is no money in the county fund of Rocking-
ham county which can be applied for that purpose, and the ob-
ject of the statute can not be accomplished without allowing the
board of supervisors to borrow money to meet such charges, for
such time as may be required to collect from the owners of apple
orchards the amount of such charges by a special or special
levies, as provided by law; now, therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the board of supervisors of Rockingham county shall have au-
thority on behalf of the county to borrow money on short time
loans, to an amount not exceeding twenty thousand dollars at
any one time, to enable it to meet and pay the damages allowed
and the expenses incurred in the said county in the eradication
of cedar rust in accordance with the statutes for such cases
made and provided, the moneys horrowed under this authority
to be covered into the county fund and be paid out by the county
treasurer in accordance with the said statutes. The principal
sum and the interest accruing or to accrue on such loans shall
be reimbursed to the county fund by the owners of apple
orchards as provided by the general law with respect to pay-
ments from said fund on account of the damages and expenses
attending the destruction of cedar trees, and shall be provided

for in the special levy made under the provisions of the said
law, which levy may be as much as three dollars an acre on
orchards planted ten years or more, and a dollar and a half an
acre on orchards planted more than two and less than ten years.

2. An emergency existing in the county of Rockingham by
reason of the necessity of making immediate provision for the
payment of laborers’ wages and other expenses and damages
incurred in the execution of said cedar rust law, this act is de-
clared to be an emergency act and shall be in force from its
passage.