Chap. 104.—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the first Section of’ an Act
approved March 25th, 1871, entitled 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
Oity, passed January 14th, 1867.

Approved February 26, 1873.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the first sec- :
tion of the act approved March twenty-second, eighteen hun- ¢
dred and seventy-one, entitled an act to amend and re-enact J
the first and fourth sections of an act entitled an act to au-p
thorize the city of Norfolk to construct water works for the °
use of the people of said city, passed January fourteenth,
eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, be amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:

§ 1. It shall be lawful for the city of Norfolk to construct F
suitable works to convey a supply of water from such place or ,
places as the said city may select, into the said city; and the %
said city may acquire and hold for that purpose, slips of land F
not exceeding 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 or counties in this com-
monwealth, not exceeding one thousand acres; and shall have 5
the same rights and powers in respect to obtaining rights of g
way and lands for their pipes, acqueducts, reservoirs and other ¢
suitable structures and fixtures for securing and conveying
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water, and in respect to taking materials for construction, as
are conferred upon railroad and other mternal improvement
companies by the Code of Virginia; and may hold, use and
employ such machinery, boats, apparatus and other appliances
as she may deem proper for supplying the said city with water
and for the transaction of the attendant business: provided, if
in any case a part only of the land of any person is proposed
to be taken by the said city, the commissioners in assessing
the damages may, at their discretion, with the consent of the
said city, reserve to the owner of said land such easements or
rights of way in or over such part as they may deem proper;
and in case of any such reservation the said city shall take and
hold such part, in fee, subject to such easements or rights of
way.

§ 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 bonds,” the proceeds of which shall not be
applied or used for other purposes, and all the net revenues or
income derived from the said works and for the use of the
water shall be applied exclusively to the payment of the inter-
est 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 shall be in force from its passage.