Chap. 175.—An ACT to authorize the common council of the city of Newport
News to cause to be issued for and inthe name of the said city certificates of
debt or bonds in addition to these authorized by section JOL of an act entitled
an act to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and
to provide a charter theretor, approved January 16, 1806, or anv amendment
thereto now existing or hereafter enacted, and in addition to the present. in-
debtedness of the said city.

Approved January 29, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That in addition
to the present inde btedness of the city of Newport News, and the certi-
ficates of debt or bonds, which the council of the said city is authorized
to issue by section one hundred and one of an act entitled an act to
incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and
to provide a charter therefor, approved January sixteenth, eighteen hun-
dred and ninety-six, or anv amendment thereto now existing or hereafter
enacted, the common council of the said city may by a three-fourths
vote of all its members, in the name and for the use of the said city
cause to be issued certificates of debt or bonds (the form of which shall
be prescribed by the council), in the aggregate amount of one hundred
and forty thousand dollars, payable in United States currency, bearing a
rate of interest not exceeding six per centum per annum, and pavable
in the discretion of the council in not less than ten nor more than thirty
years from their date.

The said council are hereby authorized to expend the amount realized
from the sale of seventy-five thousand dollars of said certificates of debt
or bonds in constructing sewerage for the said city, and the amount rea-
lized from the sale of fifteen thousand dollars of said certificates of debt
or bonds in building, constructing and equipping in the said city a
jail, a police-station house and hospital, and the amount realized from
the sale of fifty thousand dollars of said certificates of debt or bonds in
acquiring the fee-simple title to the necessary real estate for and in build-
ing, constructing and equipping with suitable appliances school buildings
in the said city for the use of the public schools of the same.

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