CHAP. 111.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled
an act to authorize Northampton county to borrow money and issue
bonds for a sum not exceeding $150,000 for the purpose of building
public roads in said county, approved March 14, 1912, as ieee by
an act approved March 24, 1914. (H. B. 174.)

Approved March 4, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section four of an act entitled an act to authorize Northampton
county to borrow money and issue bonds for a sum not exceed-
ing one hundred and fifty thousand dollars for the purpose of
building public roads in said county, approved March four-
teenth, nineteen hundred and twelve, as amended by an act ap-
proved March twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and fourteen,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 4. The ballots to be used in such election shall be pre-
pared as are ballots for other general elections, and shall con-
tain the words “for the issue of bonds for public road improve-
ment,” and “against the issue of bonds for public road improve-
ment” ; and if upon the canvass of the ballots cast, it shall be
found that a majority of those voting are in favor of such bond
issue, the fact shall be so reported as are the results of other
general elections, and the board of supervisors upon receipt of
notice of such results shall proceed immediately to prepare, exe-
cute and negotiate such bonds accordingly; provided, however,
that if one or more of the magisterial districts of the said county
shall cast a majority vote in favor of such bond issue, and one or
more shall vote negatively thereon, the said board shall issue
such bonds, in such proportion of the said sum of one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars, only, as the road mileage of the dis-
tricts or districts voting and in favor thereof shall bear to the
aggregate road mileage of the said county, or as nearly as may
reasonably be possible, the proceeds of such bonds so issued to
we applied exclusively to road building in such magisterial dis-
ricts.