Chap. 11.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 2 of chapter 240 of
an act entitled an act to provide for the working and keeping in repair the
public roads in the county of Shenandoah, approved February 16, 1S).

Approved December 19, 1893,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That on and
after the first day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, the
board of supervisors of Shenandoah county shall take charge of and
have worked and kept in repair all public roads and bridges hereto-
fore or hereafter established withi» the linuts of said county; and
for this purpose the said board of supervisors are authorized and
einpowered to levy a road tax not exceeding in any year thirty cents
upon the one hundred dollars of assessed taxable values, including
all railroads and telegraph companies in said county, and to adopt
such regulations as do not conflict with this law or may be necessary
to secure proper working of roads in said county.

The road tax collected respectively in the magisterial districts of
the county shall be equally divided amongst all of the districts, irre-
spective of the sum collected in any district of said county.
After the treasurer shall have collected the road tax for any one
year, and finds out what the net proceeds are for each district, afte:
having first divided the said road tax equally between the respective
districts of the said county, he shall notify the clerk of the board of
supervisors, who shall issue a warrant on the treasurer pavable to the
road board of each district for the amount of the net proceeds of
said road tax for the various districts of said county, and which
shall be expended in said district as hereinafter stated. As large an
amount as possible shall be set aside annually by the supervisors
for the purpose of macadamizing certain specified roads in the re-
spective districts of the county,and the residue of the road tax to be
used for the repairs of roads, bridges, and so forth, as the board of
supervisors may direct.

2. The supervisors and commissioners of roads of each magisterial
district shall constitute a district board; shall meet in May of each
year to advertise for letting for contract for ensuing year, or any num-
ber of years they may think proper and advantageous, not exceeding
two years at any letting.

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