Chap. 458.—An ACT to amend and re-enact the first section of an act entitled
an act to authorize the supervisors of Amherst county to issue bonds for the
purpose of retiring outstanding bonds, approved February 24, 1888.

Approved February 26, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion one of an act entitled an act to authorize the supervisors of
Amherst county to issue bonds for the purpose of retiring outstand-
ing bonds, approved February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and
eighty-eight, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 1. That it shall be lawful for the board of supervisors of Am-
herst county to issue the bonds of said county, not to exceed twenty-
seven thousand dollars in amount, with which to retire its bonds
maturing in the year nineteen hundred and nine, said bonds to be
issued in denominations of fifty, one hundred and five hundred dol-
lars, to bear interest at the rate of not more than six per centum per
annum, for which coupons may be issued, payable semi-annually ;
said bonds to run for twenty years and to be redeemable at the
pleasure of said county, and to be signed by the president of the
board of supervisors and under the seal of the county.

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