Chap. 107.—An ACT to amend and re-enact the sixth section of an
act entitled an act to authorize the city of Fredericksburg to provide
for supplying the city with water, approved March 28th, 1879, and
amended March 8d, 1880.

Approved April 22, 1882.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the sixth section of an act approved March twenty eighth,
eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and amended March third,
eighteen hundred and eighty, entitled an act to authorize the
city of Fredericksburg to provide for supplying the city with
water, be and is hereby 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 afore-
said, 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 ratification or rejection. At
least ten days’ notice of the time and manner of such elec-
tion shall be given by publication in newspapers published
in said city and handbills 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 five years
from the date of the approval of this act.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.
Chap. 107.—An ACT to amend and re-enact the sixth section of an
act entitled an act to authorize the city of Fredericksburg to provide
for supplying the city with water, approved March 28th, 1879, and
amended March 8d, 1880.

Approved April 22, 1882.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the sixth section of an act approved March twenty eighth,
eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and amended March third,
eighteen hundred and eighty, entitled an act to authorize the
city of Fredericksburg to provide for supplying the city with
water, be and is hereby 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 afore-
said, 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 ratification or rejection. At
least ten days’ notice of the time and manner of such elec-
tion shall be given by publication in newspapers published
in said city and handbills 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 five years
from the date of the approval of this act.

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