Chap. 214.—An ACT extending and defining the boundaries of the town of
Hampton, upon conditions.

Approved January 30, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That subject to
the result of the elections hereinafter provided for, the limits of the
town of Hampton be extended so as to embrace that portion of the
present Chesapeake magisterial district in Elizabeth City county included
between the following lines: Beginning at the center of King street on
the north boundary line of the said town, as defined by an act approved
Mav the twenty-third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven; thence north-
wardly along the center of King street to the center of Bright’s creek;
thence eastwardly along the center of Bright’s creek to Hampton river;
thence eastwardly and southwardly along Hampton river to the northern
boundary as defined in the said act of May the twenty-third, eighteen
hundred and eighty-seven; thence westwardly along the said northern
boundary to the point of beginning; also that the limits of the.town of
Hampton be extended, subject to the result of the elections hereinafter
provided for, so as to embrace that portion of the present Wythe magis-
terial district in Elizabeth City county included between the following
lines: Beginning at the center of King street on the north boundary line
of the said town as defined in an act approved Mav the twenty-third,
eighteen hundred and eighty-seven; thence northwardly along the center
of King street to the center of Bright’s creek: thence westwardly along
the center of Bright’s creck and the center of the ravine in which said
creck has its source to a point where the center of said ravine intersects
to the center of the Back river road; thence southwardly along the center
of the said Back river road and along the center of the extension of the
said road to the north side of the Newport News road or avenue; thence
westwardly along the north side of the Newport News road to a point
on the northwardly extension of the line dividing the lands now or for-
merly belonging to William Henry Booker from the lands of J. B. Lake;
thence southwardly along the said line and the extension thereof to the
center of a ravine; thence along the center of the said ravine to the cen-
ter of Herbert’s creck; thence eastwardly along the center of Herbert's
creck to Hampton river; thence along the river northwardly to the
present corporate limits: thence westwardly along the southern boundary
of the town as defined by the said act approved May the twenty-third,
eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, to a point due south of the old
svcamore tree on west Queen street; thence due north along the western
boundary of the town as defined in the said act of May the twenty-third,
eighteen hundred and eichty-seven, to the center of Union street; thence
eastwardly along the center of Union street to the point of beginning at
King street.

2. A special election shall be held on the second Tuesday in February,
nineteen hundred, at which all qualified voters of Elizabeth City county,
who, on December the thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine,
own real estate located in the proposed annexed territory of the assessed
value of five hundred dollars or more, according to the land books for
the vear eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and all qualified voters of
Elizabeth City county resident in the proposed annexed territory, whose
taxable personal property, according to their statements to the commis-
sioner of the revenue of the said county for the year eighteen hundred
and ninety-nine, amounts to five hundred dollars or more, shall be
eligible to vote, and no others. It shall be the duty of the registrars of
Wythe and Chesapeake districts, within ten days after this act is ap-
proved, to prepare separate lists of the white and colored voters, who
are legally registered in their respective districts. The registrars shall
furnish a copy of these lists to the mayor of the town of Hampton and a
copy to the commissioner of the revenue of Elizabeth City county on or
before the first day of February, nineteen hundred. The said commis-
sioner of the revenue shall immediately prepare from the lists of regis-
tered voters so received by him separate lists of the white and colored
voters entitled to vote at the said special election under the qualifications
set out in this act: and shall furnish a copy of such eligible voters, dis-
tinguishing the district and color of each voter, to the mayor of Hampton,
and a sinular copy to one of the Judges of election herein provided for
on or before the tenth day of February, nineteen hundred: provided,
that each registrar and the commissioner of the revenue shall make
affidavit before some officer authorized to administer oaths, that the
lista) prepared by them are true, full and correct to the best of their
knowledge and belief. Each registrar shall receive seven dollars and
fifty cents, and the commisioner of the revenue shall receive ten dollars,
for the services required by this act, to be paid by the town of Hampton.

3. Immediately after this act is approved, the electoral board of Eliza-
beth City county shall appoint three judges, one a qualified voter of
Hampton district, one from that portion of Wythe district, proposed to
be annexed, and one from that portion of Chesapeake district, proposed
to be annexed, the last two judges to be qualified voters at the special
election herein provided. The said electoral board shall have printed
and shall furnish to one of the said judges a sufficient number of ballots
to supply each qualified voter of the respective districts hereunder before
the day of election herein provided for. These ballots shall be printed
for the voters of the respective district as follows:

Special election, Wythe district.
“For annexation. Against annexation,”
and
Special election, Chesapeake district.
“For annexation. Against annexation.”

These ballots need not be counted and stamped by the electoral board
in the presence of the county judge. The said judges of election and the
clerk appointed by them shall canvass the vote immediately after the
polls are closed at euch special election, and enter a certificate at the foot
of each poll-book to the following effect: “ We hereby certify that
votes were cast for annexation, and that votes were cast against
annexation from Wythe (or Chesapeake) district,” and shall deliver the
poll-books to the clerk of the county court for the county of Elizabeth
City. The county court for the county of Elizabeth City shall, on the
first day it is sitting after the poll-books have been delivered to the
said clerk, enter an order setting forth the returns of such election as
shown by the certificates of the judges and clerks thereof.

Any officer failing to discharge any of the duties required of him by
this act within the time specified therefor, shall be fined one hundred
dollars, for the benefit of the town of Hampton, which shall be enforced
and recovered by the said town as other fines are enforced and recovered
by it. |

The council of Hampton shall provide two ballot-boxes for the said
election, in one of which shall be deposited the ballots of the qualified
voters of Wythe district, and in the othet of which shall be deposited the
ballots of the qualified voters of Chesapeake district; also two poll-
books, on one of which shall be entered the names of those voting from
Chesapeake district, and on the other of which shall be entered the names
of those voting from Wythe district. The special election herein provided
for shall be held at the court-house in Hampton for the voters from the
portions of both Wythe and Chesapeake districts, that are proposed to be
annexed. The general election laws of this state shall govern the special
election herein provided for, except as herein otherwise directed, and all
costs of the said election shall be paid by the town of Hampton.

4. Should a majority of the votes cast by the qualified voters at the
special election herein provided for, from either that portion of Wythe dis-
trict proposed to be annexed, or from that portion of Chesapeake district
proposed to be annexed,or both, be “against annexation,” then,and in that
event, such portion of such district or districts shall retain its present
status, subject to the result of the election provided for in section six of
this act; but should a majority of the votes cast by the qualified voters
from that portion of Wythe district proposed to be annexed, or from that
portion of Chesapeake district proposed to be annexed, or both, be “ for
annexation,” then, and in that event, such portion of such district or dis-
tricts, shall be and become a part of the town of Hampton as herein
set out.

Should the certificates of the judges of election show that at either of
the elections herein provided for, a majority of the votes cast from that
part of Chesapeake district herein described is for annexation, that por-
tion of Chesapeake district shall constitute an additional ward of the
town of Hampton.

Should the certificates of the judges of election show that at either of
the elections herein provided for, a majority of the votes cast from that
portion of Wythe district herein described is for annexation, then that
portion of Wythe district comprehended by this act, north of the center
of Queen street extended, and of the present corporate limits as defined
in the said act of May the twenty-third, eighteen hundred and eightv-
seven, and west of the center of King street extended, and the present
corporate limits as defined in the said act, shall be a portion of the third
ward of the said towns, as defined in an act approved March the third,
eighteen hundred and ninety-cight; and that portion of Wythe district
comprehended by this act south of the center of Queen street and the
corporate limits of the said town, as defined by an act approved May the
twenty-third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and west of Hampton
ereek and of the present town limits, as defined by the said act, shall
constitute an additional ward of the said town.

5. A special election shall be ordered by the council of the town of
Hampton, of which four weeks’ prior notice shall be given by publication
in one or more newspapers published in the county of Elizabeth City, for
the election of two councilmen from such additional ward or wards. as
may be created by the terms of this act at either of the elections herein
provided for. The general laws governing elections in this state shall
govern such election for councilmen: provided, that the judges of elec-
tion of Hampton district shall he judges at such election for councilmen.
The registrar of Hampton district shall, within three weeks after either
election herein provided for, at which the portion of the said district
or districts shall have become an additional ward in the manner herein
described, sit for three successive days at the court-house in Hampton to
register the gualified voters of such additional ward or wards, of which
sitting he shall give five davs’ notice by posting at the front door of the
court-house of Elizabeth City county. The councilmen so elected, shall
qualify as such, and immediately become members of the council of the
town of Hampton, and, as such, shall possess equal rights and privileges.
and be possessed of like authority as the present members of the said

council.
6. In the event that the majority of the votes cast from the part of
Wythe district, or from the part of Chesapeake district, described in
section one of this act, or from both, shall be “against annexation,” at
the election provided for in section three of this act, then the council
of the town of Hampton, by a vote of at least three-fourths of all the
members thereof, may order another special election on the question
of annexation for such part or parts, to be held on the third Tuesday in
April, nineteen hundred and one, of which special election at least four
weeks’ prior notice shall be given by publication in one or more news-
papers published in the county of Elizabeth City. Such election shall
be governed by the provisions of this act so far as applicable thereto:
provided, that the registrar or registrars, a portion of whose district
is voting, shall furnish to the commissioner of the revenue of Elizabeth
City county, the lists described in section two of this act, on or before
the first day of April, nineteen hundred and one; and the commissioner
of the revenue shall furnish to the mayor and the judges of such special
election, copies of the lists required of him on or before the tenth day
of April, nineteen hundred and one. And the qualification of voters
shall be based upon the real and personal property books for the year
nineteen hundred. In the event that the result of such special election
shall be “ for annexation,” the provisions of section four of this act shall
govern, and the election of two councilmen from the ward or wards
thereby created shall be held on the fourth Thursday in May, nineteen
hundred and one, and shall be governed by the general election laws
then in force in this state.

7. This act shall be in force from and after its passage.