CHAP. 505.—An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of
Elizabeth City county to expend the surplus fund in the hands
of the county treasurer due the county, and not otherwize a
propriated, in the improvement of the public highways of said
county.

Approved February 29, 1892.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That it shall be lawful for the board of supervisors of
Elizabeth City county to expend any surplus funds now
in the hands of treasurer of said county, due said county,
and not needed to defray legitimate county charges in
the alteration, construction, and repairs of the public
highways and bridges in the said county in such manner
and at such times as the said-board shall determine: pro-
vided that of any appropriated under this act the said
board shall direct the said treasurer to place to the credit
of the town of Hampton such a part thereof as shall bear
the same proportion to the sum so appropriated as the
property assessed with county tax of the said town bears
to the values of the whole county, and the town council
shall expend the said sum upon the improvement and
betterment of the streets of the said town.

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