CHAP. 110.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 4 of
the act approved December 10, 1891, entitled an act to empower
the board of supervisors of Rockbridge county to make a loan
and to issue bonds therefor, for the purpose of erecting a new
court- house and clerks’ offices for said county, if approved by a
majority of the voters voting at an election authorized to be
held in the said county.

Approved February 2, 1892.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That sections one and four of the act approved December
the tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled an
act to empower the board of supervisors of Rockbridge
county to make a loan and to issue bonds therefor, for the
purpose of erecting a new court-house and clerks’ offices
for said county, if approved by a majority of the voters
voting at an election authorized to be held in said county,
approved December the tenth, eighteen hundred and nine-
ty-one, be, and the same are hereby, amended and re-en-
acted so as to read as follows:

§ 1. It shall be lawful for the county court of Rock-
bridge county to make an order requiring the sheriff and
judges of election of said county, ata time to be desig-
nated in said order, not less than one month from the date
thereof, to open polls at all of the voting places in said coun-
ty to take the sense of the qualified voters of said county
upon the question whether the county shall make a loan,
of not exceeding forty thousand dollars, to provide the
necessary means for erecting a new court-house and clerks’
offices for the use of the people of said county. The said
court shall cause a copy of said order and a notice of said
election to be published for at least three successive weeks
before said election in at least one newspaper published
in the county of Rockbridge; and the sheriff of said
county shall cause a notice of said election to be given by
posting a copy of said notice at each voting place in his
county, at least ten days before said election. Said court
may, in its discretion, set aside any order entered under
this act at any time before the holding of such election ;
and may, at such time as the court may determine, enter
a new order for the holding of such election; and said
election shall be thereupon held with like formalities and
effect as though it had been conducted and held under the
previous order therefor entered by said court; and the
order already entered by said court, setting aside and re-
scinding its order theretofore entered, directing said elec-
tion to be held, is hereby declared to be legal. Said elec-
tion may be hereafter held with the same effect as though
said orders had never been entered by said court.

§ 4. If a majority of the votes cast at such election in
said county shall be ascertained to have been cast in favor
of said court-house loan, then it shall be lawful for the
board of supervisors of said county to make a loan for the
purpose of erecting a new court-house and clerks’ offices,
or public county building, in said county, in an amount
not exceeding forty thousand dollars, and to provide for
the payment of the same, as follows: The said board of
supervisors may authorize the bonds of the county of
Rockbridge to be issued in amount not exceeding sixty
thousand dollars, bearing not exceeding six per centum
interest per annum, payable semi-annually, at such times
and place as may be prescribed by said board; such bonds
to be of such form and denominations as may be pre-
scribed by said board, and they may be either coupon or
registered ; the principal of said bonds to be payable not
exceeding forty years after date, as may be prescribed by
the board of supervisors, and the bonds to be redeemable
at the pleasure of the county of Rockbridge, not less than
ten years after the date of such bonds; and the mayor
and council of the town of Lexington may stipulate and
provide that said bonds shall be exempt from taxation by
the town of Lexington. The said bonds shall be signed
by the president of the board of supervisors and counter-
signed by the clerk thereof, and the coupons for interest
upon said bonds shall be signed by the treasurer of the
county, whose signature may be either lithographed or en-
graved thereon, with like effect as though actually writ-
ten by him.

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