CHAP. 110.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 18 of an act entitled
an act to provide for the opening and working of roads and keeping
the same in repair, and provide for erecting and maintaining bridges
in the county of Culpeper, approved January 25, 1898, and as amended
and re-enacted March 14, 1906, and as amended and re-enacted March
14, 1908, and as further amended and re-enacted February 26, 1910.

(H. B. 171.)
Approved March 4, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section eighteen of an act entitled an act to provide for the open-
ing and working of roads and keeping the same in repair, and
provide for erecting and maintaining bridges in the county of
Culpeper, approved January twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and
ninety-eight, and as amended and re-enacted March fourteenth,
nineteen hundred and six, and as amended and re-enacted March
fourteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, and as further amended
and re-enacted February twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and
ten, be amended and re-enacted so as to read hereafter as fol-
lows:

Sec. 18. The board of supervisors of the county of Cul-
peper shall annually levy, along with the county levy, a road tax
upon the property, real and personal, assessed for taxation ir
the several magisterial districts, which shall be applied by thx
road board for the several districts to the working. keeping ir
order and repairing the public roads in the respective districts
of the county. Such tax shall be not more than forty cents upor
every one hundred dollars in value of such property, and dif
ferent rates may be levied for the different magisterial districts,
provided, that in districts having macadamized roads, the
amount levied in excess of twenty-five cents on each one hun-
dred dollars of real and personal property shall be used exclu-
sively for keeping the macadamized roads in repair. Such tax
shall be collected as if it were county levy, except that the fund
from each magisterial district shall be kept separate by the
county treasurer, accounted for by him to the road board ot said
district and paid out by him upon warrants of said road board
signed by its chairman and clerk; provided, that this increase
of taxation, so far as it relates to any district in which mac-
adam roads are located, shall not be put into effect by the board
of supervisors unless said increase be petitioned for by five or
more tax payers of such district, and not then should a greater
number of tax payers of such district petition for the estab-
lishment of a toll gate system in such district, and said petition
shall not be acted upon until notice of the time and place of
the meeting at which such petitions shall be heard, shall be
given by publishing such notice for two consecutive weeks in
a newspaper published in the town of Culpeper.

2. An emergency existing because of the urgent’ need of
money for repairing the macadam roads in Catalpa district of
Culpeper county, this act shall be in force from its passage.