Chap. 97.—An ACT to amend and re-enact the second section of an
act entitled an act to provide for working of roads in the counties of
Shenandoah and Page, approved February 6, 1878.

Approved February 22, 1878.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the second section of an act approved February sixth, eigh
teen hundred and seventy eight, entitled an act to provide
for the working of roads in the counties of Shenandoah and
Page, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 2. That for each magisterial district in the counties of
Shenandoah and Page, there is hereby created and e&tab-
lished a board, consisting of a supervisor, a commissioner of
roads, and one of the justices of the peace for each district,
which board shall have the exclusive control of the roads,
bridges, and ferries within its limits, and all taxes levied for
road purposes, and for building and repairing bridges, sball
be expended, so far as levied for, by said district in said
magisterial districts, except as hereinafter provided; but
neither this section or this act shall be so construed as to
prohibit the connty court from making appropriations ta be
paid by the counties at large for the construction of new
bridges or the rebuilding of such as may bave been destroyed
by freshets or other unavoidable accidents or casualties; and
the power to make such appropriations shall be the same as
if this act had not been passed.
2. This act shall be in force from and after its passage.