Chap. 82.—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 20th, 1875, so as to authorize the county of
Warren to levy a tax, not to exceed fifteen cents on the one hundred
dollars of property.

Approved February 20, 1878.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That scction
forty-four of an act entitled an act to provide for working
and keeping in order the roads of the commonwealth, ap-
proved March twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 44. It shall be lawful for the board of supervisors of any
county, upon the petition of twenty-five frecholders from
any magisterial district or districts affected thereby, to adopt
a mixed system of contract and labor for working roads of
such county. Such system may be applied to the whole
county, or any magisterial district thereof: provided that no
citizen shall be compelled to labor more than three days in
one year, nor skall 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 handred dollars of property
may be levicd under such system, 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 free-
holders of the county, the county court sball have power to
set aside and annul the action of the board of supervisors,
after having caused thirty days’ notice of the filing of such
petition to be viven to the clerk of the board. Taxes under
this section shall be !evied and collected as other county
levies.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.