CHAP. 132.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 12 of an act en-
titled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 5, 1900,
entitled an act to provide for the establishment, alteration, discon-
tinuance and working and keeping in repair the roads and bridges
of Giles county, and to punish obstructions of the road commissioners
in the discharge of their duties, and also to punish road officials of
Giles county for any neglect of their official duties, approved March
14, 1904, as amended by an act approved March 14, 1908.

(H. B. 263.)
Approved March 9, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section twelve of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact
an act approved March fifth, nineteen hundred, entitled an act
to provide for the establishment, alteration, discontinuance and
working and keeping in repair the roads‘and bridges of Giles
county, and to punish obstructions of the road commissioners
in the discharge of their duties, and also to punish road officials
of Giles county for any neglect of their official duties, approved
March fourteenth, nineteen hundred and four, as amended by
an act anvroved March fourteenth. nineteen hundred and eight,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 12. For the purpose of opening, changing, and work-
ing and keeping in repair, the roads of Giles county and for the
purpose of building or repairing the bridges and footways in
said county, it shall be the dutv of the board of supervisors of
said countv to levv an annual tax, not exceeding fifty cents on
the one hundred dollars worth of all taxable property in said
county, both real and personal. The amount from each magis-
terial district shall be kept separate. and shall be known as the
district road fund, twenty per centum of which to be annually
expended in macadamizing and making other permanent 1m-
provements thereon in such a manner and at such points as the
commission for the several districts mav think fit.

2. The levies for the current vear being affected, an emer-
gencv is declared to exist, and this act shall be in force from its
passage.