CHAP. 146.—An act to amend and re-enact the sixth section of an
act entitled an act to authorize the city of Fredericksburg to pro-
vide for supplying the city with water, approved March 28, 1879.

Approved March 8, 1880.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the sixth section of an act approved March twenty-eight, eigh-
teen hundred and seventy-nine, entitled an act to authorize the
city of Fredericksburg to provide for supplying the city with
water, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 6. After said council shall have matured and adopted a
scheme or plan for supplying said city with water as aforesaid,
it shall submit such scheme or plan to the qualified voters of
said city at such time and in such manner as said council may
prescribe for their satisfaction or rejection. At least ten days’
notice of the time and manner of such election shall be given
by publication in newspapers published in said city and hand-
bills posted therein; and the result thereof shall be ascertained
and declared in the manner to be prescribed by said council,
and shall be proclaimed by the mayor by publication. If at
such election a majority of the freeholders of said city so
voting thereon shall appear to be in favor of such scheme or
plan, it shall be declared ratified, otherwise it shall be declared
rejected, and this act shall be void; and such vote shall be
taken within two years from the date of the approval of this
act.

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