Chap. 402.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2110 of the Code of Vir-
ginia. ; [S B 358]
Approved March 20, 1920.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion twenty-one hundred and ten of the Code of Virginia, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 2110. Circuit court to order election upon petition; time of
election; what the order must show.—Bonds may be issued by any
county for the purpose of constructing, macadamizing or otherwise
permanently improving the public roads and for building bridges
therein, upon the conditions hereinafter provided.

The circuit court of the county, upon the petition of a majority of
the board of supervisors of said county, or upon the petition of one
hundred and fifty free-holders of said county, shall make an order,
requiring the judges of election at the next regular election, or at any
other time not less than thirty days from the date of such order, which
shall be designated therein, to open a poll and take the sense of the
qualified voters of the county on the question whether the board of
supervisors shall issue bonds for said purposes or either of them;
the approximate location, length and width of such roads as is pro-
posed to be constructed, macadamized or permanently improved to be
named in the order. But no election shall be ordered until the State
highway commissioner, or his representative, shall report to the court
that the amount of bonds proposed to be issued will be approximately
sufficient to construct or improve the road set out in the order. The
estimated cost of each road, or part thereof, shall be set out in the
erder of the court for expenditures solely on said road or part thereof,
and said order shall also designate the location of such roads as are
to be constructed or improved, and of such bridges as are to be built,
and the maximum amount of bonds to be issued, which shall, including
all bonds previously issued and remaining unpaid, in no case exceed
an amount in excess of ten per centum of the total taxable values at
the time of the county in which the road or roads and bridge or
bridges are to be built or permanently improved ; but in the county of
Mathews such bonds may be issued to an amount not in excess of
fifteen per centum of the total taxable values at the time of the said
county.

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