Chap. 110.—An ACT to amend sections 2 and 5of the act extending the boundaries
of the city of Portsmouth, approved February 23, 1894.

Approved January 25, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sections
two and five of an act entitled “An act to extend the boundaries of the
city of Portsmouth,’? approved February twenty-third. eighteen hun-
dred and ninety- four, be amended and re-enacted go as to read as follows:

§ 2. The annexed territory deseribed in the preceding section ehal) be
known as the fifth ward, and shall be entitled to two representatives in
the eity council, who shall be chosen by the qualified voters of said ward;
but the said councilmen from the said fifth ward shall not, until the
twenty-third day of February, nineteen hundred and four, have the
privilege of voting on any question which relates to the raising of revenue,
nor shall they vote on any proposition for the expenditure of money for
any purpose, except such as may have been received from taxes collected
from said ward. The council of the city of Portsmouth shall designate
one or more voting precincts ino said ward and the registration of the
qualified voters thereof shall take place at the same time and in like
manner as at present provided by law in said city.

$5. All taxes levied and collected upon personal property within the
limits of the said: fifth ward before the twenty-third day of February,
nineteen hundred and four, except licenses, shall be collected by the
city collector, who shall, after deducting the expenses provided for in
section three of this act and the expeuses of collecting and disbursing
the same, pay the same into the treasury of the city, to be set apart as
a special fund for the protection, improvement, schools, police, and
other benefits of said fifth ward and to be used for no other purpose.
The amount so collected and paid into the treasury of the citv shall be
appropriated by the council of said city on the recommendation of a
local board to be known as the ‘local board of improvement of the
fifth ward,’’ the said board to consist of five members, all residents in
said ward, namely: L. M. Palmer, D. G. Porter, John L. Wateon,
J.C. Everett, and Andrew M. Mahoney, who shall hold office until July
first, eighteen hundred and nincty-eight. or until their successors sh
be duly elected and qualified, their successors to be elected by the lega
qualified voters of said fifth ward at the regular municipal electic
held in May, eighteen hundred and nincty -cight, May, nineteen ht
dred, and May, nineteen hundred and two, fora term of two vears fre
the first davs of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, July, nn
teen hundred, and July, nineteen hundred and two, respectively, or ur
their successors are duly elected and qualified. Any vacaney in
board to be filled by the council by the election of a resident of s:
ward to fill said vacancy, the person so clected to serve the unexph
term of the person in whose place and stead he was cleeted.

All bills for expenditures made in said ward shall be certified by s:
local board of improvement before being ordered paid by the council.

All work of public improvement within said ward shall be under 1
supervision of the city surveyor, and the said city surveyor shall,
their request, meet with and advise the said local board of impro
ment upon all matters pertaining to the improvements to be made
said fifth ward.

The council shall not, during the unexpired term of said ten vears,
aforesaid, appropriate for the benefits or improvements in said fifth we
a larger sum of money than that collected during the year for gene
purposes, as hereinbefore provided for said ward, ‘Unless the same be
unexpended balance collected during some previous year, or from -
proceeds of the sale of bonds issued and sold pursuant to the act of |
general assembly, approved January twenty-first, eightcen hundred a
ninety-six. All licenses, except dog taxes, collected in said fifth ward
be paid into the city treasury and to be applied to the general expen
of the city.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.