Chap. 344.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act, approved March 1, 1892,
entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act entitled an act
to amend the charter and extend and define the boundaries of the city of
Norfolk, approved April 6, 1887, as amended by an act entitled an act to
amend and re-enact sections 5, 6, and 13 of an act to amend the charter and
extend and define the boundaries of the city, approved April 6, 1887, ap-
proved March 3, 1890. °

Approved February 14, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
five of an act entitled an act to amend the charter and to extend and
define the boundaries of the city of Norfolk, approved April sixth,
eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, as amended by an act entitled an act
to amend and re-enact sections five, six, and thirteen of an act to amend
the charter and to extend and define the boundaries of the city, ap-
proved April sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, approved March
third, eighteen hundred and ninety, and as amended by an act approved
March one, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, entitled an act to amend
and re-enact section five of an act entitled an act to amend the charter
and extend and define the boundaries of the city of Norfolk, approved
April sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, as amended by an act
entitled an act to amend and re-enect sections five, six, and thirteen
of an act to amend the charter and extend and define the boundaries
of the city, approved April sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven,
approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety, be amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows

§ 5. The inhabitants of the territory hereby annexed and the owners
of the lands lying therein, shall not be liable on their real and personal
property within the said district for the period of fifteen years from the
first day of July, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, for any part of the
present debt of the city of Norfolk, nor for the interest thereon, nor
shall any tax be levied therefor; nor shall they have to pay an ad valorem
tax to the city exceeding the rate of one dollar on the one hundred dol-
lars of assessed value, approved by the majority of the votes cast in the
election held in said ward on the Tuesday after the first Monday in
November, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, unless an increase over
the said rate of taxation be ordered by a majority of the votes cast
in anv election in said ward, which said increase and the amount thereof
may be submitted to the vote of the people at anv regular election
by the councils upon the recommendation of the local board of improve-
ment, thirty days’ notice thereof being published prior to such election.
If the councils of the said city, on recommendation of the local board
of improvement, open, lay off, grade, gutter, curb, or pave, sewer, drain,
or otherwise improve streets, or make any other local improvement of
a permanent character in said ward, the costs or a portion thereof may
be assessed against real estate benefited by such improvement in
accordance with the general law of the state for such cases made and
provided, and any part of the costs of same that the city may pay shall
be paid as hereinafter provided by section thirteen of this act (con-
tained in act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety). The

city shall, upon the petition of a majority of the property owners on
any street in the newly-acquired territory, extend a water main and
supply water to the citizens along its line; and the city shall, upon the
petition of a majority of the owners of the property on any street in
the newly acquired territory lying between two or more cross streets,
extend a water main and supply water to the citizens along the line of
said street between the said two or more cross streets: provided, the
said property lying on the said street between the said two or more
cross streets immediately adjoin a street upon which a water main has
been at the time of the said petition already extended; then, in addi-
tion to the ad valorem tax for genera] purposes payable to the city of
Norfolk as aforesaid, the same rate of special water tax shall be assessed
on the real and personal property along the line of such street whenever
a water main shall have been extended as may be assessed upon the
property within the present limits of the city of Norfolk during the
year for which such assessment shall be levied, and the same charges
shall be made upon those property owners who shall connect their
property with the said water main as shall be made upon other prop-
erty owners in the city of Norfolk, and the cost of laying such water
main may be paid by the city, as may be ordered by the councils on the
recommendation of the local board of improvement of the ward in
which such water main may be laid, in whole or in part, out of the tax
collected for general purposes from such ward; and any balance not so
paid shall be paid from the proceeds of bonds to be issued by the city
in accordance with section thirteen of an act approved March third,
eighteen hundred and ninety, to amend the charter and to extend and
define the boundaries of the city of Norfolk, and except, further, that
the city shall assess the same licenses for doing business of all kinds
within the newly acquired territory as shall be assessed within the
present limits of the city.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.