Chap. 3.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5 and 6 of an act to author-
ize the council of the city of Fredericksburg to apportion the expenses of
street and other local improvements between the city treasury and the
real estate benefited thereby, approved January 11, 1900.

Approved January 29, 1901.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sections
five and six of an act entitled “an act to authorize the council of the
city of Fredericksburg to apportion the expense of street and other local
improvements between the city treasury and the real estate benefited
thereby,” approved January eleventh, nineteen hundred, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

85. When the board has given the owners of the real estate assessed
a reasonable time in which to contest their assessment, not to exceed
fifteen days, it shall close its report as to all assessments not appealed
from, and shall return the same to the council. And such assessments
shall be payable at such time or times as the council shall declare by
resolution or ordinance, and shall be a lien upon the property upon which
they are assessed from the date of the acceptance of the said report by
the council.

§6. As to any assessment appealed from, the decision of the corpora-
tion court shall be reported to said board, which shall return the same
forthwith to said council and the amount adjudged by said court shall
be payable as provided in the foregoing section.

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