Chap. 172.—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the Ist and 4th Sections of
an Act, Entitled an Act to Authorize the City of Norfolk to Construct
Water Works for the Use of the People of said City, Passed January 14,
1867.

Approved March 22, 1871.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the first and
fourth sections of the act entitled an act to authorize the city
of Norfolk to construct water works for the use of the people
of the said city, passed January fourteenth, eighteen hundred
and sixty-seven, be amended and re-enacted so as to read ag
tollows:
Ҥ 1. It shall be lawful for the city of Norfolk to construct
suitable works to convey a supply of water from some point
in the Dismal swamp, in Norfolk county, or such other place as
the said city may select, into the said city; and the said city
may acquire and hold for that purpose, a slip of land not ex-
ceeding one hundred feet in width, and other lands at the
termini and stations of their works, in the city and county of
Norfolk, and in any other county and counties in this com-
monwealth, not exceeding one hundred acres; and shall have
the same rights and powers in respect to obtaining right of
way, and lands for their pipes, aqueducts and other suitable
structures and fixtures for securing and conveying water, as
are conferred upon railroad and other internal improvement
companies by the Code of Virginia; and may hold, use and
employ such machinery, boats, apparatus and other appliances
as they may deem proper for supplying the said city with
water, and for the transaction of the attendant business.”

‘“§ 4. In order to provide for payment for the said works,
the said city may issue bonds bearing interest not exceeding
eight per centum per annum; which bonds shall be known as
“the Norfolk city water bands,” the proceeds of which shall
not be applied or used for other purposes, and all the net reve-
nues or income derived from the said works and for the use of
the water, shall be applied exclusively to the payment of the
interest and principal of the said bonds, and the councils of
the said city are authorized to levy a special tax, to be known
as the “water tax,” upon all property in the said city, real and
personal, and on such other subjects as may be assessed with
state taxes against persons residing in the said city; the said
levy to be made in the mode prescribed by law and the consti-
tution of this state for the levy of other taxes by the said city.”

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