Chap. 55.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend
and re-enact section 7 of an act entitled an act for working anu keeping
in order the public roads of Mecklenburg county, and to provide for the
levy of taxes for that purpose, approved March 6, 1900, approved March
15, 1910. [S B 115]

Approved February 10, 1920.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an
act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section seven of an act
entitled an act for working and keeping in order the public roads of
Mecklenburg county, and to provide for the levy of taxes for that
purpose, approved March sixth, nineteen hundred, approved March
fifteenth, nineteen hundred and ten, be amended and re-enacted so as
to read as follows: ;

Sec. 7. The county board of supervisors, at their regular annual
meeting, or such adjourned meeting before the annual levy closes,
as they may deem practicable, shall examine all statements of the
district boards laid before them, and shall have power to correct any
errors that may be found therein. They shall levy a tax annually
upon all property in the county, not to exceed twenty-five cents on
the one hundred dollars’ worth of property, for working and keeping
in order the roads of said county, and they may annually levy, in any
magisterial district in the county, an additional tax of not exceeding
sixty-five cents on the one hundred dollars worth of property in the
particular district, for working and keeping in order the roads of the
said particular district. The funds arising from the said county levy
of not exceeding twenty-five cents shall be apportioned to the several
road districts in proportion as the amount paid by each district for
county road purposes bears to the whole amount raised in the county
by said levy for said purposes.

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