Chap. 274.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 23 of an act entitled an
act to provide for working of roads in the counties of Chesterfield, Pow-
hatan and Goochland, approved March 3, 1884.

Approved March 16, 1910.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
twenty-three of an act to provide for working of roads in the counties of
Chesterfield, Powhatan and Goochland, approved March third, eighteen
hundred and eighty-four, be amended as re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

§23. That the board of commissioners of roads for their respective
districts shall annually, in the month of April of each year, lay a road
tax, not exceeding twenty-five cents on every one hundred dollars’ value
of property, real and personal, including all railroad property within
their districts, and immediately certify the same to the commissioner of
the revenue, who shall thereupon extend the said taxes in the copies ot!
his books, to be delivered to the clerk of the county court and the treas-
urer of the county: provided, that in the county of Powhatan all taxes
levied by the board of supervisors for road purposes shall be a county road
tax, sixty-five per centum of which shall be used for permanent road im-
provement and the balance of thirty-five per centum to be equally divided
between the three magisterial districts and to be used by th supervisor
in each district, in his discretion, for temporary repairs to roads and
bridges of his district.