Chap. 184.—An ACT to provide the manner in which aid shall be
extended to the r of the several magisterial districts of Rock-
bridge county, who are not supported in the county poor-house.

Approved February 23, 1888.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the board of supervisors of Rockbridge county shall annually
provide for such aid and assistance as in their judgement may
be necessary for the support of the poor of the several magis-
terial districts of the county, who are not supported at the
county poor-house; and for this purpose shall annually, when
they come to lay the county levy, levy a tax upon the prop-
erty in the several magisterial districts of said county for
such aid to such of the poor of each district as may need
assistance at their homes; and as a basis for said levy, the
supervisor and overseer of the poor of the several magisterial
districts of the county, shall certify to the board of super-
visors, from year to year, the probable amount needed for the
support of the poor of their respective districts, not inmates
ot the poor-house, but the board of supervisors shall not be
required to levy the amount so certified, but may levy more
or less as in their judgment they may decide to be necessary.
The levies so made shall be collected by the county treasurer
as district school taxes are collected by him, and for the same
compensation, and set apart by him to the credit of the dis-
trict from which it is collected, and known as the poor fund
for magisterial district.

2. The several district poor funds shall be paid out by the
county treasurer upon the warrant of the overseer of the
poor of the district for which such fund may have been col-
ected, countersigned by the supervisor of such magisterial
district. The overseer of the poor shall keep a warrant-
book with stubs, upon which shall be set forth the name of
the person in whose behalf each warrant has been drawn;
and he shall keep also an itemized account of every expendi-
ture and outlay made by him in aid of the poor of his dis-
trict, in a book to be kept by him for this purpose; and shall
annually, on the fourth Monday in July, appear before the
board of supervisors, with his books for inspection and set-
tlement. The clerk of the county court of said county shall,
at the cost of said county, procure and furnish to the over-
seer of the poor in each of said districts, a warrant-book and
account-book herein required to be kept by them. .

3. The said fund shall be drawn upon and used by the
overseers of the poor of the several magisterial districts of
said county, only for the aid of indigent persons of their dis-
tricts respectively, who may from time to time be in need of
temporary or partial relief and assistance at their homes, or
outside of the county poor-house.

4, Nothing in this act shall conflict with the provisions of
the general law regulating the keeping of the poor at the
place of general reception, or the transfer of the poor from

the several magisterial districts to the place of general recep-
tion.
5. This act shall be in force from its passage.