Chap. 133.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an aet to
amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to reguate the working of
the public roads in the counties of Prince William. Montgomery,
Chesterfield, and Laneuster.

Approved February 27, 1879.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section one of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an
act entitled an act to regulate the working of the public roads
in the counties of Prince William, Montgomery, Chesterfield,
and Lancaster, approved December eighteenth, eizhteen hun-
dred and seventy-eight, be amended and re-enacted so as to
read as follows:

§1. From and after July first, eighteen hundred and seventy-
eight, the boards of supervisors of Prince William and Mont-
yomery counties shall take charge of and have worked and kept
in repair all public roads heretofore or hereafter established with-
in the limits of said counties, except such unimportant roads
as said boards in their respective counties may ascertain and
determine can be sufficiently maintained under the provisions
of the general road law. Jor the purposes of this act the
board of each county is hereby authorized and empowered to
levy a road tax, not exceeding ten cents in any one year, upon
the one hundred dollars of assessed taxable values in its said
county, aud to adopt such regulations not in contravention with
the laws and constitution of this state, as may be necessary or
proper to secure the proper and eflicient working of the roads
in said county.

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