Chap. 38.—An ACT to Amend Section 51 of an Act approved July 11,
1870, entitled an Act Prescribing the Duties and Compensation of Certain
Township Officers to Provide for Pay of the Overseer of the Poor.

Approved January 14, 1871.

1. Be it enacted, That the fifty-first section of an act ap-
proved July eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy, entitled
an act prescribing the duties and compensation of certain town-
ship officers, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as fol-
lows, viz: |

Ҥ 51. The powers and duties of overseers of the poor shall
be such as were prescribed by the laws in force when the con-
stitution was adopted, so far as the same were consistent with
this act, and such as now or hereafter may be prescribed by law.
The pay and allowances for overseers of the poor shall be such
as the township board may prescribe, not to exceed thirty dol-
lars for each overseer for one year, and the same to be paid
out of the township levy.”

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

‘*HAP, 39.—An ACT to Authorize the County of Carroll to Borrow Money
to Build a Courthouse for said County.

Approved January 14, 1871.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the board of supervisors of Carroll county be and they are
hereby authorized and empowered, at any meeting at which a
majority of said supervisors shall be present, to issue bonds, in
the name of the county of Carroll, for a sum not exceeding in
the aggregate five thousand dollars, and to sell the same, and
with the proceeds to build a courthouse for said county.

2. That the bonds issued in pursuance of this act shall be in
sums of one hundred dollars or some multiple thereof, shall
be made payable in not less than one nor more than five years,
and shall bear interest, payable annually, at a rate not exceed-
ing ten per centum, and shall be signed by the president of
the said board of supervisors, and be attested by the clerk of
the county of Carroll, and have the seal of the said county
affixed thereto.

3. That the debts contracted and evidenced by said bonds
shall be levied for by the said board of supervisors upon such
subjects of taxation as are or may be liable by law for the
county levy, and that the faith of the said county is pledged
for the punctual payment of the principal and interest of said
bonds, when the same shall become due.

4. That the said board of supervisors are hereby authorized
to sell or dispose of, on such terms as they may think best, the
present courthouse of said county.

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