Chap. 193.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section two of an act entitled an
act to provide for the building and improvement of public roads in the
county of Surry, and prescribing the powers and duties of road boards in
the several magisterial districts of said county, approved February i? en

Approved March 16, 1920.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
two of an act entitled an act to provide for the building and improve-
ment of public roads in the county of Surry, and prescribing the
powers and duties of road boards in the several magisterial districts
of said county, approved February ninth, nineteen hundred and six-
teen, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 2. The board of supervisors of Surry county may annually
levy, along with the county levy, a special tax upon the property, real
and personal, assessed for taxation in each of the magisterial districts
of said county, which shall be known as the district road levy, and
shall he applied to the building, working, keeping in order, and re-
pairing of the public roads in such district. Such tax shall not
exceed twenty-five cents on every hundred dollars in value of such
property, though a different rate of tax may be prescribed for the
different districts in the said county, and the same shall be collected
and accounted for and paid out on the warrant of the board of super-
visors, signed by its chairman, as if it were a county law, but the
funds so collected from each magisterial district shall be kept separate
by the county treasurer from the funds so collected from the other
districts under this section; provided, that in Blackwater, Guilford
and Cobham magisterial districts such tax may be as much as, but
shall not exceed, fifty cents on every hundred dollars in value of
such property.

2. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its
passage.