Chap. 537.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act
entitled an act to amend the charter and to 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 charterand to extend
and define the boundaries of the city, approved April 6, 1887,
approved March 8, 1890.

Approved March 1, 1892.

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, approved April sixth, eighteen hun-
dred 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 levied by the county of Norfolk for general pur-
poses for the year eighteen hundred and eighty-six—viz:
seventy cents on the one hundred dollars, unless an in-
crease over the said rate of taxation be ordered by a ma-
jority of the votes cast in any election in said ward, which
said increase and the amount thereof may be submitted to
the vote of the people at any regular election by the coun-
cils, upon the recommendation of the local board of im-
provement, thirty-day notice thereof being published prior

to such election; and unless the city shall, upon a pe-
tition of a majority of the property owners on any street in
the newly-acquired territory, approved by the local im-
provement board thereof, open, lay off, grade, gutter, curb
or pave, sewer, drain, or otherwise improve such street, or
make any other local improvement of a permanent char-
acter not applicable to the entire ward, in which case the
costs thereof shall be assessed against the owners of real
property benefited by such improvement as is at present
provided by law in said city, and any part of the costs of
same that the city may agree to pay shall be paid as herein-
after provided for by section thirteen of this act (contained
in act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety ).
The city shall, upon the petition of a majority of the pro-
perty 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 petition of a majority of
the owners of the property on any street in the newly-ac-
quired 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 1mme-
diately adjoin a street upon which a water-main has been
at the time of the said petition already extended; then, in
addition to the ad valorem tax for general purposes pay-
able 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 wherever a water-
main shall have been extended, as may be assessed upon
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 proverty own-
ers who shall connect their property with the said water main
as shall be made upon other property 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 accord-
ance 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 Nor-
folk, 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.