Chap. 718.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to confer upon the council
of the town of Danville authority to build, purchase, repair and keep up a
free bridge or free bridges across Dan river, and to confer upon the said cor-
poration the power to increase its bonded indebtedness for public improve-
ments, approved February 24th, 1886, as amended and re-enacted by chapter
51 of acts of extra session 1887, approved April 6th, 1887.

Approved March 4, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act
entitled an act to confer upon the council of the town of Danville
authority to build, purchase, repair and keep up a free bridge or free
bridges across Dan river, and to confer upon the said corporation the
power to increase its bonded indebtedness for public improvements,
approved February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six,
as amended and re-enacted by chapter fifty-one of acts of extra ses-
sion eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, approved April sixth, eigh
teen hundred and eighty-seven, be amended and re-enacted so as t
read as follows:

§ 2. And the council of the city of Danville shall have power als
to issue bonds of the said city to an amount not exceeding one hun
dred thousand dollars in addition to the present indebtedness o
said city, for the purpose of paving the streets of said city and fo
the prosecution of other works of internal improvements within the
limits of said city; provided that the question of application of ths
proceeds of said bonds or any part thereof exceeding the sum of ter
thousand dollars shall have been first submitted to a vote of th
qualified voters of the city of Danville, and shall be approved by;
two-thirds of such voters voting at such election, which two-third:
shall include a majority of the qualified registered voters ownins
real estate in said city; the said sum of one hundred thousand dol
lars being part of what remains unappropriated of the amount of five
hundred thousand dollars of bonds which the council of the town o!
Danville was authorized and empowered to issue and appropriate un
der the act approved February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred anc
eighty-six, hereinbefore mentioned as amended by an act approvec
April sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, as aforesaid.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.