CHAP. 275.—An ACT to authorize the board of supervsors of Albemarle
county to erect and maintain toll gates on macadam roads now or
hereafter built in said county, and to demand and collect tolls for the
use of such roads. (H. B. 241.)

Approved March 16, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
in order better to maintain such macadam roads as have been
or may hereafter be built in said county, the board of supervisors
of said county shall have and are hereby given the power to erect
and maintain toll gates at such places on said macadam roads
as they may deem proper and to demand and collect tolls on said
roads, and the said board of supervisors at their July or Janu-
ary meetings of each year are authorized and empowered to fix
the rates of tolls on said roads, pass and adopt rules and regula-
tions for the collection of said tolls, and impose penalties for
non-payment or evasion of payment of tolls, and the improper
use of said roads, and not accounting for the collection of said
tolls; a copy of which rates, rules and regulations shall be posted
at each toll gate operated hereunder and at the front door of the
court house of said county.

The board of supervisors of Albemarle county are further
authorized and empowered to appoint such agents and collectors
for receiving said tolls as they may think proper, requiring of
the same proper bonds with security where it may be found
necessary and such agents or collectors shall receive a com-
mission or salary for their services as to the said board may
seem most advisable, and said tolls so collected to be turned
in every month and received and accounted for by the treasurer
of Albemarle county under his official bond as all the ordinary
county levies, he to receive in compensation the same commis-
sion paid him for receiving and disbursing the county levies.
The funds collected by tolls as aforesaid are to be expended
upon the warrant of the board of supervisors in paying the costs
of maintaining toll gates and repairs of said macadam roads
in the district in which they were collected and should the funds
so realized be sufficient, any surplus to be applied to the building
of other macadam roads and bridges in the district in which
the tolls are collected. Provided further that the board of su-
pervisors in Albemarle county shall have the power as in their
discretion they deem it wise and proper to exercise the same
to give a rebate in toll to those who have made, or shall here-
after make private subscriptions to the building of permanent
macadam roads in said county, on any roads on which toll gates
shall be established, said rebates to be in such amounts as the
board of supervisors shall determine, but not to exceed in any
case the amount of said private subscription, and provided fur-
ther that the said board of supervisors shall have the right to
make arrangements with any person using the said roads in
Albemarle county for an annual payment to be fixed by said
board and taken in lieu of tolls.