Chap. 157.—An ACT to authorize the city of Fredericksburg to borrow
money and issue and negotinte bonds to the extent of $60,000 for the
urpose of supplying said city with a suitable and adequate supply of
Vater.
Approved February 28, 1884.

Whereas, pursuant to act of assembly, approved March
twenty “oisnht, eighteen bundred and seventy-ning, as amended
by anoact approved March third. eighteen hundred and
eighty, and by an act approved April twenty-second, cigh-
teen hundred eighty-two; the city of Fredericksburg was
authorized and empowered to provide for supplying said city
with a suitable and adequate supply of water.and to that end
to borrow money and issue and neyotiate the bonds of said
city for the same to the extent of thirty thousand dollars :
provided that a majority of the qualified voters, freeholders
of said city, voting upon the scheme or plan submitted by the
council of said city at an election submitting the question to
them, should ratify and approve the same; and whereas it
appears that on the twenty-fourth day of May, cighteen hun-
dred and eighty-three, at an election duly held in said city
upon the question ot such scheme or plan proposed by said
council, and the appropriation and borrowing of a sum not
exceeding sixty thousand dollars, and issuing the bonds of
said city for the purpose to such an extent was duly sub-
mitted to, voted upon, and ratified by a majority of the free-
holders of said city voting thereon ; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the eoneral assembly of Virginia, That
the said city of Fredericksburg be and it is hereby author-
ized and empowered to borrow money and issue and nego-
tiate the bonds of said city to the extent of sixty thousand
dollars, for the purposes and in the manner prescribed and
set forth in said act of assembly, approved March twenty-
eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, from sections one
to five inclusive.

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