Chap. 173.—An ACT to legalize the issue of certain bonds of the
City of Roanoke.

Approved ‘February 19, 1886.

Whereas by act of assembly, approved January thirty-first,
eighteen hundred and eighty-four, the city of Roanoke was
authorized to issue bonds of the said city, and acting under
said act of assembly, the city council issued bonds to the amount
of sixty thousand dollars, which issue was irregular and defec-
tive, and the city council of Roanoke having requested that all
such defects be cured by an act of assembly: therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
those certain six per centum interest-bearing coupon bonds of
the city of Roanoke, known as ‘‘Series C,’’ and numbered
consecutively from one to one hundred and twenty, both inclu-
sive, and of the denomination of five hundred dollars each, and
bearing date on the first day of October, eighteen hundred and
eighty-four, and payable thirty years thereafter, and signed by
by D. F. Houston, president of the city council, and M. C.
Thomas, treasurer, with the corporate seal of the city thereto
affixed, and purporting on their face to have been issued in pur-
suance of an ordinance of the council of the city of Roanoke,
passed on the fifth day of August, eighteen hundred and eigh-
ty-four, and ratified by the vote of the freehold voters of the
said city, at an election held on the twenty-sixth day of August,
eighteen hundred and eighty-four, under the authority of an act
of assembly of Virginia, approved the thirty-first day of Janu-
ary, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, entitled an act to pro-
vide a new charter for the city of Roanoke, be and the same
are hereby ratified and confirmed, and made binding and obli-
gatory upon the city of Roanoke to pay principal and interest,
in the manner provided in said bonds themselves, irrespective
of the manner in which they have been issued, and notwith-
standing any irregularities or informalities in authorizing the
issuing of said bonds by the council of the city of Roanoke,
or the ratification of the same by the freehold voters voting on
the question, or any other irregularities or informalities what-
soever in the issuing of said bonds.

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