Chap. 550.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of an act approved March
3, 1896, entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act approved
February 22, 1890, entitled an act to extend the boundaries of the city of Nor-
folk, and to amend and re-enact sections 5, 6, and 12 of said act, as amended
by an act approved February 12, 1892, entitled an act to amend and re-enact
sections 5, 6, and 12 of an act entitled an act to extend the boundaries of the
city of Norfolk,” approved February 22, 1890.

Approved January 2, 1904.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section six
of an act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, en-
titled “an act to amend and re-enact section two of an act. approved Feb-
mary twenty-two, eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled an act to ex-
tend the boundaries of the city of Norfolk,” and to amend and re-enact
sections five, six, and twelve of said act, as amended by an act approved
February twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, entitled an act to
amend and re-enact sections five, six, and twelve of an act entitled an
act to extend the boundaries of the city of Norfolk,” approved February
twenty-two, eighteen hundred and ninety, be amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:

§ 6. All taxies levied and collected upon persons and property within
the limits hereby added to the city of Norfolk, excepting water taxes and
license taxes, shall be collected by the city collector, who shall, after de-
ducting his fees, pay the same into the treasury of the city, to be set
apart as a special fund for the improvement, protection, schools, police,
and every other expenditure of the said ward from which it is collected,
to be appropriated by the councils on the recommendation of the local
hoard of improvement in said ward. The said board is at present com-
yosed of five residents of said ward elected by the legally qualified voters
of said ward, on the fourth Thursday in May, nineteen hundred and two,
who shall hold office from July first, nineteen hundred and two, until
February twenty-second, nineteen hundred and five, at which time the
said Atlantic City ward shall be and become an integral part of the city.
And all bills for money spent within said ward be certified by the local
board of improvement before being ordered to be paid by the councils.

All works of internal improvement within the newly annexed terri-
tory shall be under the supervision of the board of street, sewer, and
drain commissioners,-as provided by law, within the present limits of the
city.

Tt shall not be lawful for the councils during the before-mentioned pe-
riod of fifteen years from the twenty-second day of February, eighteen
hundred and ninety. to expend more money in the ward herehy added to
the city of Norfolk than shall be collected during the vear as_herein-
hefore provided from said ward, unless the same be an unexpended bal-
ance collected during some previous year, except as provided by section
five.

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