Chap. 79.—An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to transfer to the county ot
Shenandoah the State's interest in the Mt. Jackson and Howard Lick Turnpike
Company.

Beeame a law, without the signature of the governor, March 5, 1903.

Whereas, under an act passed by the general assembly at its session i
eighteen hundred and ninety-nine and nineteen hundred, approved Marc!
fifth, nineteen hundred, entitled an act» to transfer to the county o
Shenandoah the State’s interest in the Mount Jackson and Howard Lic
Turnpike Company, the board of public works was authorized to transte
all of the rights, title, and interest of the State in and to the Moun
Jackson and Howard Lick Turnpike Company, it being a turnpike o
about thirteen miles in length, constructed from Mount Jackson, i
Shenandoah county, to Howard's Lick, in West Virginia, to the board o
supervisors of Shenandoah county: and,

Whereas, the said board of supervisors have thus far failed and refuse-
to accept the said transfer as aforesaid on account of the indebtedne:

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against said company, and because of a conflict of interest of the private
stockholders in said company, which would produce confusion and involve
the said board of supervisors in other legal and constitutional questions,
and at the same time fail to relieve the users of the said turnpike from the
payment of tolls, as specially provided for by said act; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That said act
shall be, and the same is hereby, repealed.

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