CHAP. 71.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 37 of an act entitled
an act to provide for a road law for Spotsylvania county, approved
February 21, 1898, as amended by an act approved March 14, 1908,
as amended by an act approved March 138, 1914, as amended by an
act approved February 23, 1918. fH B 10]

Approved September 9, 1919.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section thirty-seven of an act entitled ‘“‘an act to provide for a
road law for Spotsylvania county,” approved February twenty-
first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, as amended by an act
approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, as
amended by an act approved March thirteenth, nineteen hun-
dred and fourteen, as amended by an act approved February
twenty-third, nineteen hundred and eighteen, be amended and:
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 37. Levy of road tax; how collected and expended;
when board may purchase machinery, and so forth, for improve-
ment of roads.—The board of supervisors of each county shall
annually levy, along with the county levy, a road tax upon the
property, real and personal, assessed for taxation in their county
and not included within the corporate limits of any incorporated
town in such county which maintains its own streets. Such tax
shall not be more than forty cents on every one hundred dollars
in value of such property, and the same shall be collected, ac-
counted for, and paid out on the warrant of the board as if it
were a county levy. Such tax shall be applied to the building
and repair of bridges, defraying the county’s proportion of ex-
pense of construction of any public bridge therein for which
State aid is obtained as may be provided by law. The purchase
of road graders, scrapers and all machinery, tools, wagons, carts
and teams necessary for the proper working and repair of all
the roads of said county, for the support of the county chain-
gang and the payment of the road superintendent and his dep-
uties for their service as hereinafter provided. After the pay-
ment of the aforesaid expenses, if there be any of the funds re-
maining unexpended, the said board may, out of said fund, pur-
chase crushers and engines; crush stone for sale to the various
road districts of the county at such price as shall be just and
equitable, or it may apportion the remainder of said fund, or any
part thereof, among the several magisterial districts:of the coun-
ty, in proportion to the amount of road tax paid by each dis-
trict to the county fund, to be expended in working, keeping in
order and repairing the public roads in such districts, or it may
purchase the carts, tools, teams, scrapers, engines and harness,
which are now owned by any road district or districts in the
county, at a fair and just price, to be paid out of said general
fund, and such price so paid shall be expended in working, keep-
ing in order and repairing the public roads in said district. The
board may also erect toll gates on such of the roads of the county
or any district thereof as were built by bond issues at not less
than five miles apart, and fix the rate of toll for the various kinds
of vehicles, automobiles, locomobiles, and so forth, in proportion
to the damage done by such vehicles, and from the action of the
board in fixing such rate of toll, et cetera, there shall be no ap-
peal; provided, that by petition presented to the board of super-
visors at a regular meeting, signed by three-fifths of the free-
holders of any magisterial district wherein toll gates have been
established, or may hereafter be established, the said toll gates
shal] be discontinued on or before the next regular meeting of
the board of supervisors.

They shall use the proceeds of such toll gates for the main-
tenance, building, opening and repair of the roads and bridges
of the district or districts wherein collected, or, if they order by
a three-fifths vote, for any other road or bridge work in the
county.

3. On account of local conditions in Spotsylvania county,
an emergency is declared to exist, and this act shall be in force
from its passage. }