The Short Title of this Act shall be “The Highway Boards Empowering Act (No. 2), 1875.”

This Act shall be read and construed as part of “The High-way Boards Empowering Act, 1871.”

At any meeting which shall be duly assembled within any highway district, it shall be lawful for the duly qualified persons present, after providing for the general road rate, to levy a special rate not exceeding one farthing in the pound on the value to sell, or threepence in the pound on the annual value to let, for the purpose of raising funds to be applied to the lighting of the several streets and roads of the district with gas or other illuminating material.

Such special rate shall thereupon be added to the general road rate of the district, and shall be collected as if it were part thereof, but the proceeds of such special rate shall be kept to a separate account in the books of the governing body of such district, and shall only be applied to and for the purposes for which the said special rate is hereby authorized to be levied.

The general road rate shall not be in any way invalidated or open to objection on the ground that, with the addition of the special lighting rate, such general road rate may and shall exceed the total amount allowed to be levied as a general road rate under the existing laws, but the notices of the making and final settlement of such general rate shall state that a special lighting rate (naming the amount) is included in and forms part of such general road rate.