Chap. 270.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act, approved February 17.
1910, entitled an act to enable incorporated towns and cities to con-
tribute to the building or improvement of public roads and bridges lead-
ing to such town or cities, as amended by an act, approved February 17.
1916; so as to enable incorporated towns and cities to construct bridges
across streams beyond or within their corporate limits, to borrow moner
and issue their municipal bonds therefor, for the purchase or construc-
tion of such bridges, and to validate municipal bonds heretofore issued!

for such purposes. [H B 130]
Approved March 16, 1918.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an
act approved February seventeenth, nineteen hundred and ten, en-
titled an act to enable incorporated towns and cities to contribute
to the building or improvement of public roads and bridges leading
to such towns or cities, as amended by an act approved February
seventeenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, be amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows:

_ Section 1. Any incorporated town or city, acting by and through
its council or governing body, when in the judgment of such council
or governing body such action will tend to promote the material
interest of such town or city, may contribute funds or other aid
within the control of such town or city, towards the building or
improvement of permanent public roads leading to such town or
citv, or of bridges over streams crossing such roads, or may pur-
chase or construct such bridges outside of its corporate limits; pro
vided, that no such contribution shall be made, or any such bridge
purchased or constructed at any point more than forty miles beyonc
its corporate limits, as measured along the route of such road.

Section 2. Any such incorporated town or city may purchase
or construct bridges across streams without or within its corporate
limits, so as to afford access to its streets from permanent public
roads outside of its corporate limits, or so as to connect its streets:
provided, that no part of any such bridges outside of such cor-
porate limits shall be more than five miles therefrom; and provided.
further, that the navigation of such streams shall not be interfered
with ; and such incorporated town or city, acting through Its coun-
cil or governing body, may borrow money and issue its municipal
bonds therefor, for the purpose of purchasing or constructing such
bridges; and wherever anv such incorporated town or city shall
have heretofore issued its municipal bonds for such purposes, such
bonds shall be deemed and held valid in all respects, whether here-
tofore sold or not; provided the proceedings of its council or other
governing body in issuing the same be in all other respects regular
and legal.