Chap. 527.—An ACT to authorize the Maysville magisterial district and other
magisterial districts of Buckingham county to vote a subscription towards
the construction and extension of the Buckingham branch of the Chesapeake
and Ohio railway to Buckingham courthouse.

Approved February 28, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the judge
of the county court of Buckingham county, be,and he is hereby, authorized
to submit to the qualified voters of the Maysv ille magisterial district, of
Buckingham county, whoare freeholders in said district, any proposition
of subscription to the construction of an extension of the ‘Buckingham
branch of the Chesapeake and Ohio railway from some point on the line
of the said railway, as may be determined upon by the said Chesapeake
and Ohio railway company, to Buckinghain courthouse; but said sub-
scription not to excecd the sum of ten thousand dollars.

2. And the said judge of the county court of Buckingham county is
authorized to order an election at such time as he may think proper to
take the sense of the said voters upon the said proposition of subscription,
the said election to be held in the manner now prescribed by law as
regards subscriptions by counties to works of internal improvement, but
a majority of the registered voters of said magisterial district, who are
freeholders of said district, shall be suflicient to carry and adopt said
subscription. And if the said proposed extension of the Chesapeake
and Ohio railway is constructed by the aid of the subscription of the
said Maysville magisterial district, then the taxes levied upon the
said proposed extension when constructed for general county purpose,
shall inure to the benefit of the said maviste rial district for. the payment
of the interest on the amount of said subscription; and a sinking fund
for the discharge of the principal of said subscription when due, shall be
provided for in such manner as said judge may think proper, and after
the said subscription is fully paid, the said railway property as extended
to Buckingham courthouse shall be taxed as other railway property is
taxed, and for the same purposes as aforesaid.

3. Upon the petition of fifty or more property holders of any other
magisterial district in said county of Buckingham, the said judge shall
in the same manner as herein provided, submit to the qualified voters
of said district or districts, a proposition, in the manner above provided,
of subscription to said railway extension, not to exceed in any one of
said districts the sum of two thousand dollars, but any lesser amount
may, in the discretion of the judge, be submitted to any one or more of
said districts, and the taxes levied upon the said extension when con-
structed for general county purposes shall inure to the benefit of said
districts as may subscribe to the sum in proportion to the amount they
may subscribe, to be used in the same manner as is herein provided
for the Maysville magisterial district.

+. This act shall be in force froin its passage.