Chap. 201.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 44 of an act to
provide for working and keeping in order the roads of the common-
wealth, approved March 20, 1875, as amended by the act of February
20, 1878, so as to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of
‘Warren to expend within the magisterial districts of said county the
tax levied and collected in any such district for working and altering
the roads, and for establishing and opening new roads therein.

Approved March 12, 1878.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That section
forty-four of an act entitled an act to provide for working
and keeping in order the roads of the commonwealth,
approved March twenty, eighteen hundred and seventy-five,
as amended by the act of February twentieth, eighteen hun-
dred and seventy-eight, be ameuded and re-enacted 80 as to
read as follows: .

§ 44. It shall be lawful for the board of supervisors of any
county, upon the petition of twenty-five freeholders from
any magisterial district or districts affected thereby, to adopt
a mixed system of contract and labor for working the roads
of such county. Such system may be applied to the whole
county or any mugisterial district thereof: provided that no
citizen shall be compelled to labor more than three days in
one year, nor shall any tax greater than five cents on the
one hundred dollars of property, be levied under such system:
and provided that in the county of Warren a tax not greater
than fifteen cents on the one hundred dollars of property
may be levied under such system: and tbat it shall be lawful
for the board of supervisors of said county, as provided in
this section, to adopt a mixcd system of contract and labor
for altering and working the roads, and for opening new
roads in any mugisterial district in said county, and that the
tax levied and collected in any such magisterial district shall
be expended upon the roads within the limits of said district,
and that each magisterial district shall bear its own expense
in making and altering roads; but this proviso shall not
operate to change or alter the special road law of any
county: and provided further that, upon the petition of
fifty treeholders of the county, the county court shall have
power to sct aside and annul the, action of the board of
supervisors, after having caused thirty days’ notice of the
filing of such petition to be given to the clerk of the board.
Taxes under this section shall be levied and collected as other
county levies.

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