Chap. 125.—An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Henry county
to appropriate from the general funds of said county a sufficient amount
of money to maintain the convict road force in said county, and for the
construction of other permanent improved roads in said county, and to
borrow money at any time not exceeding $20,000, for the purpose of
maintaining said convict road force and for the construction of other
permanent improved roads as aforesaid. {[S B 280]

Approved March 9, 1918.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
board of supervisors of Henry county be, and it is hereby authorized,
to appropriate and use a sufficient amount of the general funds
raised by the general county levy as may be necessary to maintain
the convict road force in said county, and for the construction of
other permanent improved roads in said county, as a supplement to
the county fund. |

And the said board of stipervisors is hereby authorized and
empowered to borrow money and to execute bonds or notes for the
same to an amount not to exceed at any one time twenty thousand
dollars, and not to run for a period of more than one year, said
notes or bonds to be executed by the chairman of said board and
attested by the clerk thereof, and at maturity to be paid out of the
general county levy, said money to be used only for and not other-
wise than for the maintenance of said convict road force, or in the
construction of any permanently improved road in said county, con-
structed under the supervision of the State highway commissioner
or the said board of supervisors.

2. An emergency existing for the lack of funds in said county
to properly carry on road construction, this act shal] be in force from
its passage.