Chap. 14.——An ACT to amend and act entitled an act to authorize the
town of Shenandoah, Virginia, to issue bonds not exceeding: $50,000.00,
for the purpose of building and maintaining a sewerage system, higt
school building, street paving and filtration plant, approved Marcl
20, 1914. (H. B. 50.)

Approved February 9, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
an act entitled an act to authorize the town of Shenandoah, Vir-
ginia, to issue bonds not exceeding fifty thousand dollars for the
purpose of building and maintaining a sewerage system, high
school building, street paving and filtration plant, approved
March twentieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, be, and is,
hereby amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Whereas, it is desired that the town of Shenandoah, Vir-
ginia, shall construct and establish hydro-electric dam and fix-
tures, and if found necessary, to establish and maintain a sewer-
age system, also high school building, street paving, filtration
plant, in the said town; and,

Whereas, the construction and establishment of the above
named will necessitate the borrowing of money and the issuance
of bonds; and, |

Whereas, the great advantage to be obtained by the construc-
tion of such works before the winter season sets in renders it
a matter of emergency that this bill enforce from its passage;
therefore, °

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the town council of Shenandoah, Virginia, be, and is, hereby
authorized and empowered to borrow money for the said cor-
poration for the purpose of constructing and establishing the
above named improvements, plants and systems, or such as it
may deem necessary, in and for the use of said town, not to
exceed the sum of fifty thousand dollars, by the issue and sale
of bonds of the said corporation as hereafter provided.

2. Said bonds may be either coupon or registered, in denomi-
nations of one hundred dollars, or multiples thereof, to bear a
rate of interest not exceeding six per centum per annum, pay-
able semi-annually. The principal of said bonds shall be payable
in thirty years from their date, or upon call of said corporation
at any time after twenty years from their date. The said bonds
shall be signed by the mayor of said town, and shall have affixed
to them the seal of said town, attested by the clerk of said town,
and shall be negotiated or sold in such manner as may be pre-
scribed by the town council; provided, that they shall not be sold
for less than their face value.

3. The council of said town shall annually include in the levy
on the property in the said town subject to taxation, as a part
of the annual town levy, a tax sufficient to pay the interest on
the bonds issued under this act, and to create a sinking fund for
the redemption of said bonds, which levy shall at all times be
subject to such reduction as may be by reason of any contribu-
tion from general revenues toward the payment of said interest
or sinking fund; and it shall be lawful for the said town to at
all times use the sinking fund for the payment and retirement of
such bonds as the holders thereof may be willing to deliver for
cancellation prior to the time of their maturity.

The said council of the said town is hereby authorized
and empowered to construct, erect, and operate a hydro-electric
dam, a sewerage system, a high school building, and said street
paving, within or without the corporate limits of the said town,
and to do any and all things connected therewith or necessary
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thereto; and the said town, by its mayor and council, is hereby
empowered to contract and agree with the owners and tenants
of freeholds through and on whose lands the said works of the
said town, or any part thereof, are located, constructed, or pass
for the purchase or use thereof, whether permanent or tempo-
rary; and upon failure to so contract or agree with the owner or
tenant of such freehold to proceed to condemn same, as pre-
scribed by the charter of said town, if said lands or freeholds are
within the corporate limits of said town, and by proceedings in
the circuit court of Page county, under chapter of the
Code, and acts amendatory thereof, if outside of the said cor-
porate limits.

5. The council of said town are hereby authorized to enact
such by-laws and ordinances, and prescribe such penalties, not
in conflict with the Constitution and laws of this State and the
United States, for the protection of the said pipes, works, and
fixtures of the said systems against willful or wanton injury as
may be necessary, whether such offenses against same be within
or without the said corporate limits, for which purpose the juris-
diction of the mayor and other corporate authorities of the said
town is hereby extended for one hundred yards on either side,
and beyond any and all the various lines and branches of its en-
tire said works.

The foregoing provisions of this act shall not be operative
until the question of the issue of the said bonds shall have been
submitted to an election of the qualified voters of the said town;
and it shall appear from a return of the votes cast at the said
election, as hereinafter provided for, that a majority of the votes
so cast were in favor of the issue of the bonds provided for in
‘this act.

7. The said election shall be called by the judge of the cir-
cuit court for Page county, in term time or vacation, upon writ-
ten application signed by twenty-five qualified voters of said
town, and copies of the order of said judge, so calling the elec-
tion, shall be posted at not less than five conspicuous places in
said town, not less than twenty days before the date fixed in said
order, by the sheriff of Page county, as a means of advertisement
of the time and place of said election, and the return of the
sheriff on the back of the original order as to the posting of
same shall be conclusive evidence of such posting; and the said
original order shall be filed in the clerk’s office of Page county.

8. The election shall be by ballot and shall be held by five
qualified voters in said town, designated and appointed by the
said judge at the time of making the order calling the said elec-
tion, three of whom shall act as judges, and two of whom shall
act as clerks, and they shall be sworn by the mayor of the said
town to perform their several duties fairly and impartially be-

fore entering upon their respective duties as judges and clerks
of said election.

9. The judges and clerks of said election shall make a cor-
rect count and return of same, sealing the ballots after counted
and delivering them to the clerk’s office of Page county, to be
there properly filed, unless at any time and for any reason they
are ordered to be opened and re-counted by the judge of the cir-
cuit court for Page county; and the said judges and clerks shall
also certify the result of said election over their signatures to
the clerk of the circuit court, who shall file same in his office, and
such certificate shall be absolute and conclusive evidence of the
verity of such return after fifteen days from the date of said
election.

10. All acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith, are hereby
repealed.

11. For the reason of emergency expressed in the preamble,
this act shall be in force from its passage.