CHAP. 319.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 14,
1906, and entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act of the gen-
eral assembly of Virginia, in force January 21, 1884, entitled an act
providing a charter for the city of Norfolk, and repealing the exist-
ing charter, approved April 21, 1882, as amended by the several acts
of the general assembly of Virginia, approved, respectively, April 6,
1887, April 28, 1887, May 24, 1887, February 14, 1900, February 21,
1900, February 26, 1900, February 2, 1901, February 15, 1901, March
15, 1902; and to define the boundaries of the said city of Norfolk, as
extended by the several acts of the general assembly, approved April
6, 1887, February 22, 1890, and March 14, 1902, and by an order of
the circuit court of Norfolk county, which was entered on the 9th day
of January, 1906, and to add an independent section thereto to be
known as section 61-b prescribing rules and regulations for the bring-
ing of actions against the city of Norfolk for damages for injuries
to persons or property alleged to have been sustained by reason of.
negligence of the city or any officer, agent or employee thereof, and
to require from the claimant a written verified statement of the nature
of his claim and of the time and place at which the alleged inju
was received. (H. B. 491.9

Approved March 20, 1916.

-1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
an act approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred and six,
and entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act of the general
assembly of Virginia, in force January twenty-first, eighteen
hundred and eighty-four, entitled an act providing a charter
for the city of Norfolk, and repealing the existing charter, ap-
proved April twenty-first, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, as
amended by the several acts of the general assembly of Vir-
ginia, approved, respectively, April sixth, eighteen hundred
and eighty-seven, April twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and
eighty-seven, May fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-
seven, February fourteenth, nineteen hundred, February twenty-
first, nineteen hundred, February twenty-six, nineteen hundred,
February second, nineteen hundred and one, February fifteenth,
nineteen hundred and one, March fifteenth, nineteen hundred
and two; and to define the boundaries of the said city of Nor-
folk, as extended by the several acts of the general assembly,
approved April sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, Feb-
ruary twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety, and March
fourteenth, nineteen hundred and two, and by an order of the
circuit court of Norfolk county, which was entered on the ninth
day of January, nineteen hundred and six, be amended and re-
enacted and add an independent section thereto to be known as
section sixty-one-b prescribing rules and regulations for the
bringing of actions against the city of Norfolk for damages for
injuries to persons or property alleged to have been sustained
by reason of the negligence of the city or any officer, agent or
employee thereof, and to require from the claimant a written
verified statement of the nature of his claim and of the time and
Place at which the alleged injury was received, to read as fol-
ows:

Sec. 61-b. No action shall be maintained against the city
of Norfolk for damages for an injury to any person or property,
alleged to have been sustained by reason of the negligence of the
city or of any officer, agent or employee thereof, unless a writ-
ten, verified statement of the nature of the claim and of the
time and place at which the injury is alleged to have occurred
or been received shall have been filed with the mayor of the
said city within thirty days after the. cause of action shall have
accrued; the said statement may ke verified and filed either by
the person injured, the owner of the property damaged, the
personal representative, agent or attorney of said person or
owner.