Chap. 1050.—An ACT to amend section 4 of an act approved February 20,
1886, entitled an act to determine to whom the title of the Falmouth bridge,
in the county of Stafford, shall be conveyed, and to confirm the purchase
of the same, and for other purposes.

Approved March 7, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
four, of an act entitled an act to determine to whom the title of the
Falmouth bridge, in the county of Stafford, shall be conveved, to con-
firm the purchase of same, with provision to carry out contract with
Ficklin, approved February twenticth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six.
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

$4. The said bridge commissioners, on or before the first day of
June, in each and every year, shall lay before the board of supervisors
of Stafford county, or furnish to the chairman of said board, a written
statement of the amount of money necessary to mect the estimated
expenses and outlays for maintaining and operating said bridge, fot
the next ensuing year, which said amount so to be furnished, shal
always include, first, the sum necessary to pay the annual sum of one
thousand ($1,000. 00) dollars, in equal semi-annual instalments to the
vendors of said bridge property, their heirs and assigns. Second. The
sum necessary to pay the interest on the outstanding bridge bonds, in
equal semi-annual payments. ‘Third. A sum necessary to operate and
keep in repair the bridge, and pay the said bridge commissioners for
their services. Fourth. A sum sullicient to create a sinking fund of
five hundred ($500) dollars per annum, which sum is to be annually
invested as soon as possible after its receipt, by the said bridge com-
missioners, and the amount so accumulated shall be used to cancel
the said bridge bonds at maturity, or in case of sudden and serious in-
jury to the Falmouth bridge, and for no other purpose. And the said
board of supervisors shall cause said amount of money to be assessed
and levied for, and collected; and for the purpose of imposing said levy,
the said board of supervisors shall meet annually on or before the first
Wednesday in July, and the said levy laid for said bridge fund shall be
kept separate and apart from other levies laid by said board, and it
shall be collected and paid over by the treasurer of said county, to the
treasurer of the bridge commissioners, who shall receipt to him for
the same. But the said annual levy, for the aforesaid purposes, shall
not exceed thirty cents on the hundred dollars’ value of all property, real
and personal, in the said county.

2. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby
repealed.

3. This act shall be in force from its passage.