Chap. 403.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 12, chapter 6, of a
entitled an act to incorporate the city of Danville, approved Februar
1890, and to amend and re-enact section 1, chapter 8, of said act, as ame
and re-enacted by an act approved December 18, 1897, and entitled a
to amend section 1, chapter 8, of an act entitled an act to incorporat
city of Danville, approved February 17, 1890.

Approved February 19, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That se
yelve, chapter six, of an act entitled an act to incorporate the ci
anville, approved February seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ni
1d section one, chapter eight, of said act, as amended and re-en:
y an act approved December eighteenth, eighteen hundred and mi
ven, and entitled an act to amend section one, chapter eight, of a
1titled an act to incorporate the city of Danville, approved Feb
venteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, be amended and re-en:
. as to read as follows:

Chapter 6, sec. 12. The council shall have power and authority to c
sh and maintain a proper system of sewers and drains for said

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nnd make and construct sewers or public ducts through said city, and
wherever else within and around said city it may be deemed expedient,
and to allow and compel persons owning property abutting upon streets
in which said sewers or ducts are laid to connect their property with said
sewers or ducts upon such terms, in such manner, and at such time as the
said council may determine; to build bridges in, or culverts under, the
streets and alleys of said city; to prev ent and remove obstructions or
encroachments in, over, under or upon said streets, bridges, and alleys;
to plant shade trees along the same, and to prevent the cumbering of
streets, alleys, sidewalks, public squares, lanes, and bridges in any man-
ner whatsoever.

Chapter 8, sec. 1. The council may, in the name and for the use and
benefit of said city, subscribe and contribute in money, bonds, or other-
wise to the cost of making, repairing, or improving any public roads in
Pittsylvania county leading to said city, and may subscribe to the stock
of any company incorporated for the purpose of constructing any im-
proved or artificial road to said city, and to the stock of other incor-
porated companies: provided, that the question of such subscriptions and
contributions shall have first been submitted to a vote of the qualified
voters of said city, and shall be approved by two-thirds of such voters
voting at such election, which two-thirds shall include a majority of the
qualified registered voters owning real estate in said city; but the said
council may by a three-fourths vote of all of its members, and without
a vote of the people, as above provided for, subscribe and contribute out
of the general fund under its contro] not otherwise appropriated sums
not exceeding in the aggregate five thousand dollars in any one year to
the cost of making, repairing, or improving any public roads in Pittsvl-
vania county leading to said city. The council may in the name and for
the use and benefit of said city borrow money and contract debts and
issue notes or bonds therefor, but no debt of the said city shall be made
payable more than thirty-four years after the date thereof. The coun-
cil may in the name and for the use and benefit of said city and for the
purpose of paying the current expenses of said city borrow money on
temporary loans for periods not exceeding four months, and in amounts
not exceeding in the aggregate at any time the sum of fifty thousand
dollars, and issue therefor notes or other evidences of debt. The council
is hereby expressly authorized to issue and sell bonds of the said city
in an amount not exceeding sixty thousand dollars, to be known as water,
power, and light bonds, and the proceeds thereof to be used in paving
for and developing the water power property recently purchased by said
city from Crews, Westbrooks and company, and for the improvement
and extension of the gas and electric hight plants of said city. Except
for the current expenses, as aforesaid, and for the aforesaid water, power.
and light bonds, the council shall not in the name of said city contract
any debt or issue bonds or other evidences of debt in an amount ex-
ceeding ten thousand dollars until the question of contracting such in-
debtedness shall have first been submitted to a vote of the qualified voters
of said city, and shall be approved by two-thirds of such voters voting at
such election, which two-thirds shall include a majority of the qualified
registered voters owning real estate in said city: provided, that the
bonded indebtedness of said city shall not at any time exceed the sum
of twelve hundred and ten thousand dollars. The council shall annually
set apart from the resources of said city a sum equal to one per centum
of the aggregate bonded indebtedness of said city, not payable within one
year, whether heretofore or hereafter contracted. The fund thus set
aside shall be called the sinking fund, and shall be applied to the pay-
ment of the bonded indebtedness of said city as it shall become due, and
if no part be due and payable, the said sinking fund shall be invested
in the bonds or certificates of indebtedness of said city or of the state of
Virginia or of the United States or of any state of this union.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.