Chap. 423.—An ACT to Authorize the Board of Supervisors of Albemarle
County to Charge Tolls on Certain Bridges.

Approved November 5, 1870. .

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the board of
supervisors of Albemarle county, be and they are hereby au-
thorized and empowered, from the proceeds of bonds to be
issued under an act entitled ap act to authorize the board of
supervisors of Albemarle county to borrow money to rebuild
bridges destroyed by the recent flood, passed October twenty-
fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy, to erect toll-bridges at
or near the following places: Rio Mills, on the Rivanna river;
the site of the free bridge, on the Rivanna river; and Pace’s
Mill, on Mechum’s river.

2. Tbe said board of supervisors are hereby authorized, on
the completion of said bridges, to levy and collect tolls on
animals, vehicles, and persons, at arate to be fixed by them-
selves and approved by the board of public works.

3. Whenever the tolls collected under this act shall amount
to the cost of building, repairing, and collecting said tolls, or
at the maturity of the bonds issued in pursuance of an act
passed October twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy,
the said board of supervisors shall suspend the collection of
tolls and declare the said bridges free to the public; and all fur-
ther costs for repairs, and so forth, shall be charged to thecounty.

4. The said bridges shall be in all respects subject to all the
provisions of the general law applicable to toll bridges, not in
conflict with this act.

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