Chap. 137.—An ACT authorizing the commissioner of direct taxes for the
county of Bedford to pay over to board of supervisors of said county any
balance of direct tax fund in his hands, to be used in improvement of public
roads of said county, and providing for enforcing payment of same and for
refunding any of said fund to persons entitled thereto.

Approved February 6, 1894.

Whereas the county of Bedford is in need of funds for the im-
rovement of the public highways; and

Whereas there is now in the hands of the commissioner of direct
axes for the said county the sum of about two thousand dollars of

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the direct tax fund for the said county ultimately applicable to the
said purpose and not likely to be called for by any claimant; and

Whereas the supervisors of said county have, by a resolution, re-
quested an enabling act on the subject: now, therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That James
L. Arthur, junior, the commissioner of direct taxes for the said
county of Bedford, be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to
pay over, upon the warrant or order of the board of supervisors of
the said county, any and all money now in his hands remaining of
the direct tax fund apportioned to the said county under an act of
the general assembly of Virginia, approved March third, eighteen
hundred and ninety-two, the said money to be expended by the said
board of supervisors on the roads of the said county. The said board
is hereby authorized to draw any warrants or orders on said commis-
sioner to the amount of said balance of direct tax fund, payable to
any person on account of any liability incurred by said county in
the improvement of its public roads. Any person holding any of
said warrants or orders so drawn on said commissioner of direct
taxes shall have power to collect same by suit or otherwise.

2. Any person hereafter claiming any of the said fund shall estab-
lish his claim thereto before the county court of the said county of
Bedford, or the judge thereof in vacation, in the manner now pro-
vided for by law in the act aforesaid, entitled “an act for the distri-
bution among those entitled of the direct tax money donated by the
United States government,” approved March third, eighteen hundred
and ninety-two, or shall establish such claims in such other manner
as may be satisfactory to such court or judge; and, upon establish-
ing the said claim, the said county court, or the judge thereof in va-
cation, shall certify to the said board of supervisors the amount to
which any such person may be entitled, and thereupon the said
board of supervisors shall draw their warrant upon the treasurer of
the said county, payable to the said claimant for the amount to
which he is 80 entitled out of the general county levy.

3. This act shall be in force from and after the first day of May
next.