Chap. 102.—An ACT to provide for the payment and collection of tolls on
the Apple Ridge Road in Frederick county, and for the improvement,
repair and maintenance thereof. (H. B. 64.)

Approved March 16, 1914.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
immediately upon the passage of this act, the board of road com-
missioners of Stonewall district, of Frederick county, Virginia, or
such other officials as may by law be substituted in their places, shall
prepare a schedule of tolls, which may be changed from time to time
as the necessities of the case may require, to be paid for horses and:
other animals, vehicles drawn by horses, mules or oxen, automobiles,
traction engines and other self-propelling vehicles, passing over the
Apple Ridge road in Stonewall district of Frederick county, or parts
thereof, between its connection with the north Frederick turnpike,
about two miles from Winchester, and its terminus at the West
Virginia line. Such schedule shall also provide for annual rates
over the said road for persons desiring the same.

The said road officials shall cause, from time to time, the said
tolls, as fixed by such schedule, to be collected and paid over to them,
and the toll-keeper at the gate of the north Frederick turnpike com-
pany, between the south end of the Apple Ridge road and the city
of Winchester, may be required to make such collections upon such
terms as the road officials may agree upon.

Provided, however, that the aggregate toll so to be collected, shall
not exceed for each year the sum of seventy-five dollars per mile for
so much of the said road as shall have or may hereafter be graded
and macadamized, and the schedule of toll shall be changed from
time to time so as not to exceed this aggregate sum.

The amount so received for tolls shall be expended by the road
officials aforesaid in the extension, improvement, repairs and mainte-
nance of so much of the Apple Ridge road as is now or may here-
after be graded and macadamized, but nothing in this act shall be
taken to change in any way the obligation of the district and county
authorities, as they now exist or may hereafter be provided, to levy
a sufficient tax to keep the whole of the said road in proper order,
and so much of the said tax as may be necessary for that purpose,
shall be applied to the improvement. repair and maintenance of the
macadamized porticns of the said road, to the extent that the tolls
collected shall be inadequate for that purpose.

An emergency existing therefor, this act shall be in force from
its passage.