Chap. 241.—An ACT to require the approval of the qualified voters of Dickenson
county on certain local questions; to prohibit the board of supervisors of
the satd county from appropriating the county Ievy for certain purposes;
to linut the rates of levy in the said county; and to invest the court or judge
with certain authority. | [H B 318]

Approved March 23, 1926.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly af Virginia, That the
consent and approval of a majority of the qualified voters in the county
of Dickenson, or the district therein affected, voting in an election
held for the purpose of approving or rejecting the proposal shall be
necessary before the local authorities shall take an action in any of
the following cases.

(a) Where the county school board proposes to make any tem-
porary loans authorized by general law, to borrow money from the
literary fund and issue bonds or notes therefor, or to borrow money
or issue bonds or notes for any purpose whatsoever.

(b) Where the board of supervisors of the said county proposes to
levy any tax or assessment in excess of the maximum rates authorized
in this act.

(c) Where the board of supervisors or the county school board
proposes to contract for the expenditure of any sum in excess of the
revenue available for the current year.

2. The board of supervisors of the said county of Dickenson is
hereby prohibited from appropriating any money out of the county
levy to the support and maintenance of the schools in any school dis-
trict or in the county, or to the construction or maintenance of any
roads in the said county, or in any district thereof.

3. The division superintendent of schools of the county of Dick-
enson shall countersign all warrants issued for school purposes.

4+. The board of supervisors of said county shall not make any
levy or assessment in excess of the following rates on the hundred
dollars of the assessed valuation of property for the purposes named:

For county purposes, fifty cents.

For county and district school purposes, one dollar and fifty cents
in the aggregate.

For county and district roads, fifty cents in the aggregate; pro-
vided, however, the board of supervisors may, in its discretion, make
an additional levy of not exceeding fifty cents in any magisterial dis-
trict which does not have a bonded indebtedness for district roads,
which levy shall be used for the construction and maintenance of the
roads therein.

Nothing herein contained shall affect the validity of any bond issue
heretofore made or at any time authorized by legislative enactment.

5. Whenever the board of supervisors or the county school board
of the county desires that a special election shall be held under the
provisions of this act, such election shall be ordered by the circuit
court of the county, or the judge thereof in vacation, upon the petition
of either of such boards, as the case may be. The court or judge shall
fix the date for such special election, which date shall not be sooner
than sixty days from the time it is ordered. In lieu of a special
election the court or judge may order that the proposal or proposals
to be voted on shall be submitted to the voters on the date of the next
general election held not less than sixty days after the entry of such
order by the court or judge, or whenever the court or judge shall order
that the proposal or proposals shall be voted on at a general election,
it shall be the duty of the regular election officers to provide for the
submission of the proposal or proposals on the date so fixed and for
the canvassing and certification of the vote as required by general
law. The said court or judge is hereby authorized and empowered
to enter any order not inconsistent with the provisions of this act or
general law, with respect to any detail which will promote or facilitate
the objects hereof.

6. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are repealed,
insofar as they affect Dickenson county.

7. An emergency existing by reason of the necessity for making
the levies in Dickenson county for the year nineteen hundred and
twenty-six, this act shall be in effect from its passage.