Chap. 218.—An ACT to authorize and empower the mavor and council of the town
of South Boston to issue bonds, &e.

Approved February 7, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general asse mbly of Virginia, That the
mayor and council of the town of South Boston he, and they are
1ereby, authorized and empowered to issue bonds, coupon or registered,
is they may deem best, to the amount of ten thousand dollars, bearing
nterest at a less rate than six per centum per annum, said bonds not to
oe sold at less than their par value, the proceeds arising from the sale
of said bonds to be used for the purpose solely of retiring the bonds
rerctofore issued by virtue of an election authorizing same, held by the
trrecholders of the said town on the seventeenth day of April, eighteen
vundred and cighty-eight, in accordance with an act approved the thir-
eenth day of January, eightcen hundred and eighty-cight, entitled an
vt to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town
of South Boston, in the county of Halifax, allowing the said town of
South Boston to contract loans and issue bonds therefor, which said
bonds are dated the first day of January, eighteen hundred and eighty-
nine, and are payable at the option of the said mayor and council on
and after the first day of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.