Chap. 247.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of an act entitled an
act to provide for the working and keeping in repair the public roads
of Amherst county, approved January 29, 1898, as heretofore amended.

(H. B. 173.)
Approved March 16, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section seven of an act entitled an act to provide for the working
and keeping in repair the public roads of Amherst county,
approved January twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-
eight, as heretofore amended, be amended and re-enacted so as
to read as follows:

Section 7. But it is herein provided that after the establish-
ment of toll gates as hereinbefore mentioned, and after the same
have continued for two years, upon a petition of a number of
qualified voters not less than twenty-five per centum of the
number of qualified voters of the county of Amherst that voted
in the last preceding regular November election to the circuit
court of the county of Amherst, asking for an election to de
termine whether said toll gates shall be continued, or whether
they shall be discontinued, that the said court shall order a
special election for that purpose, the same to be held and con-
ducted, the returns canvassed and contested, as other special
elections are held and conducted, and the expense of said special
election to be paid as in elections held under section five hundred
and eighty-one, five hundred and eighty-two, five hundred and
eighty-three, five hundred and eighty-six of the Code of Virginia
and Pollard’s code, as amended so far as said provisions may be
applicable and not in conflict with the provisions of this act.

Those qualified to vote in any election held under this act
shall be those qualified to vote at the last preceding regular No-
vember election and those that may have come of age and quali-
fied to vote since said last November election. If the returns of
the said election show that a majority of the voters voting in
said election voted in favor of discontinuing said toll gates, the
same shall be discontinued.