Chap. 258.—An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Botetourt county
to construct the uncompleted portion of the Eagle Rock to Fincastle
permanent road in Botetourt county, and to provide for issuing warrants
on levies for not exceeding fifteen years in the Fincastle magisterial district
to pay the expenses thereof. {H B 470]

Approved March 15, 1922.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
board of supervisors of Botetourt county is hereby authorized and
empowered to construct that uncompleted portion of the Eagle Rock
to Fincastle permanent read, on such location as may be determined
upon by. the board of supervisors of Botetourt county and approved
by the State highway commission, said road to be constructed and
completed up to Main street in the town of Fincastle at the court
house, constructing said road on what is known as Roanoke street,
in the corporate limits of the said town of Fincastle, and said road
is to be built of such material and by such specifications as may be
acceptable to the highway commission.

2. That to meet the expense of acquiring the right of way for
said road, and the construction thereof as aforesafd, the said board
of supervisors is hereby authorized and empowered to issue and
sell warrants on the treasurer of the said county, payable in annual
payments not to exceed fifteen years, which warrants shall bear in-
terest at a rate not exceeding six per centum per annum, payable an-
nually until paid and the aggregate of all the warrants so issued
under this act shall not exceed thirty thousand dollars, and shall not
be sold for less than their face value.

3. The said board of supervisors of the said county shall, in
each of the said years for which said warrants are payable, in lay-
ing the levy, make a sufficient levy not in conflict with the general
law on the property in the Fincastle magisterial district of said
county, subject thereto, to raise sufficient amount to pay off the war-
rants, with all interest then due and payable on any and all of said
warrants drawn under this act, payable in said years, in addition
to current expenses assessable against the property in said district
for said years; and out of said levies the said warrants and interest
shall be paid by the treasurer of said county, and shall be credited
to him in his settlement of said district road funds.

4. The enormous traffic on this road, and the necessity that this
work proceed at once, is such that an emergency is hereby declared
to exist, and this act shall be in force from its passage.