Chap. 345.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to
provide for the issuing of county bonds for permanent road or bridge im-
provement in the magisterial districts of the county of Princess Anne, ap-
proved September 9, 1919. {fH B 531]

Approved March 24, 1926.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
one of an act entitled an act to provide for the issuing of county bonds
for permanent road or bridge improvement in the magisterial districts
of the county of Princess Anne, approved September ninth, nineteen
hundred and nineteen, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

Section 1. Bonds may be issued by the county of Princess Anne
for the purpose of macadamizing or otherwise permanently improving
the public roads and bridges of the several magisterial districts in the
said county upon the conditions hereinafter provided. The circuit
court of said county, upon the petition of fifty freeholders of any
magisterial district or districts in said county, shall make an order
requiring the judges of election at the next election of county officers,
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 such magisterial district or districts
on the question, whether the board of supervisors of said county shall
issue bonds for said purposes, or either of them, under the provisions
of this act. The approximate location, length and width of such
roads as it is proposed to be macadamized or permanently improved
from the proceeds of the bonds sought. to be issued thereunder, shall
be named in the order. The said order shall designate the magisterial
district or districts in which said road or roads and bridges lie, stating
as nearly as practicable what length of each road lies in each district,
and the maximum amount of bonds to be issued for the permanent
improvement of the roads and bridges in each district, which shall in
no case, together with any bonds previously issued on behalf of any
district and outstanding, exceed an amount in excess of twenty per
centum of the total assessed taxable values at the time in the said
magisterial districts in which the road or roads are proposed to be
built or permanently improved, except that, as to Kempsville magis-
terial district, the maximum amount of bonds to be issued for the
permanent improvement of the roads and bridges in the said district
shall not, together with any bonds previously issued on behalf of that
district and outstanding, exceed an amount in excess of twenty-five
per centum of the total assessed taxable values at the time in the said
magisterial district. The qualified voters at any special election held
under this act, until otherwise provided by general law, shall be those
qualified to vote at the preceding November election and those who
may have come of age and registered since said preceding regular
November election, except those who by commission of crime or re-
moval from the district or districts have disqualified themselves to
vote.