Chap. 3.—An ACT to authorize and empower the council of the town of Luray,
Virginia, to appropriate certain money to construct a bridge across the Hawks-
bill creek, in said town.

Approved July 28, 1902.

Whereas, by an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved Feb-
ruary twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred, the town council of Luray, Vir-
ginia, were authorized and empowered by the issue and sale of bonds of
said town to borrow a sum of money, not exceeding thirty-five thousand
dollars, for the purpose of constructing and establishing a system of
water works in and for the use of the said town; and,

Whereas, the said sum of money was realized in the manner provided
in said act, and said system of water works has been constructed and com-
pleted at a less cost than thirty-five thousand dollars, and there is a bal-
ance of said fund in the treasury of the said town, and it is necessary,
and it is desired by the citizens of the said town, to construct a new
bridge within the corporate limits of said town: therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the town
council of the said town of Luray be, and they are hereby, authorized and
empowered to expend said balance of said fund, or so much thereof as
may be necessary, in the construction of a new bridge across the Hawks-
hit creek in the said town.

2. And be it further enacted, That if the said balance of said fund
should not be sufficient to construct said bridge, the said council is hereby
authorized to increase the tax levy for street and road purposes in said
corporation road district to thirty cents on each one hundred dollars of
the assessed value of the real and personal property in said town, and to
issue certificates of indebtedness, payable out of said fund so raised for
street and road purposes, at such times and for such amounts as may be
agreed upon and fixed in the contract for the construction of said bridge.

3. By reason of the dilapidated and dangerous condition of the old
bridge across the Hawksbill creck, it is necessary that the new bridge for
which this bill provides should be built at once, therefore this act shall
be in force from its passage.