Chap. 98.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2, 5, 7, 9, 16, 17,
20, and 21 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the
town of Charlottesville, approved March 28, 1873, the act amending
section 2, approved February 23, 1875, and the acts amending sec-
tions 4 and 17, approved April 28, 1874, and February 23, 1875, res-
pectively.

Approved January 31, 1888.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
sections one, two, five, seven, nine, sixteen, seventeen, twenty,
and twenty-one of an act entitled an act to provide a new
charter for the town of Charlottesville, approved March
twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and the act
amending section one, approved March twenty-eight, eighteen
hundred and seventy-three, the act amending section two,
approved February twenty-three, eightcen hundred and sev-
enty-five, and the acts amending sections four and seventeen,
approved April twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and seventy-
four, and February twenty-three, eighteen hundred and sev-
enty-five, respectively, be amended and re-enacted so that
the said sections shall hereafter be as follows:

§1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
so much of the land that lies and is contained within the fol-
lowing boundary: Beginning at the entrance to the Brennan
estate from the Monticello road (the gate nearest to town);
thence north forty-cight, east one hundred and six poles,
crossing the Chesapeake and Ohio railway, to corner of the
yard belonging to (the farm) late Thomas L. Farish’s estate,
on the road to the woolen mills; thence with said yard fence,
north thirty-three and one-half, east fifty-eight and one-half
poles; thence north twenty-one, west one hundred and _ sev-
enty-six and a half poles, to the north-east corner of B. C.
Flannagan’s dwelling-house: thence north seventy-two and
one-half, west one hundred and fourteen poles, to the south
bank of the Virginia Midland railway; thence along said
southern bank, south forty-eight and one-half, west one hun-
dred poles, and south fifty-eight and one-half, west thirty-five
poles, to the south side of Preston avenue; thence along the
south side of said avenue, north forty-seven and one-half,
west thirty-seven poles to the south-east corner of John M.
White’s lot; thence leaving the road or avenue south eighty-
seven and one-half, west thirty-seven and four-tenths poles, to
the south-east corner of Jessee Seays’ lot; thence north
eighty-two and one-half, west one hundred and forty-eight
poles, to the south-east corner of Mrs. Turner’s slaughter-house ;
thence north sixty-nine and one-half, west thirty-four poles,
to the lane leading to the said Mrs. Turner’s house; thence
with said lane, south twenty-six, west thirty poles, to the
‘Chesapeake and Ohio railway; thence east with said railway
to the crossing of the University avenuc; thence leaving the
railway, south thirteen and one-fourth, west one hundred and
eighteen poles, crossing the Virginia Midland railway to a

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corner in line with the Fife lots; thence south eighty-seven
and one-half, cast thirty-six poles, to the southern line of said
lots, and along the same sixty-eight and one-half poles to the
south-west corner of ‘'homas B. Bunch’s lot, at the head of
R. H. Fife’s ice-pond; thence south forty-three and one-half,
east thirty-seven poles, to corner in branch below said ice-
ond; thence south twenty-four and three-fourths, east one
undred and twenty-seven'and one-half poles, to the soutb-
west corner of James S. Barksdale’s lot on the road to Hart-
man’s mill; thence along the northern margin of said road,
south sixty-one and three-fourths, east twenty-three and one-
half poles to the south-east corner of said Barksdale’s gar-
den; thence south eighty-one, east seventy-five poles, to Pol-
lock branch; thence with said branch as far as its several
courses will admit, north forty-two and one-half, east eighty-
five poles, north seventy-four and one-half, east twenty poles,
and north forty-five and one-half, east eight poles, to a point
on said branch, west of J. l. Hay’s house; thence south sixty-
nine and one-half, east one hundred and eleven and one-half
poles, crossing the Scottsville road (and including the said
ay’s house) to the place of the beginning, shall be and here-
by is made a town corporate by the name and style of the
town of Charlottesville, and by that name may sue and be
sued, and be subject to all the provisions of the Cede of Vir-
ginia, except so far as may be herein otherwise provided. .

§ 2. The new territory annexed by the preceding section |
shall be entitled to four representatives in the town council,
and until the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and eighty-
nine, the municipal authorities of the town shall consist of a
mayor and ten aldermen, namely: the present mayor and the |
present six aldermen, and four new aldermen from the new '
territory aforesaid; and after the thirtieth day of June, eigh-
teen hundred and eighty-nine, the municipal auchorities of
the town shall consist of a mayor and twelve aldermen, to be
elected in the manner hereinafter provided. .The four addi-
tional aldermen hereinbefore provided for, shall be as follows:
E. E. Dinwiddie, Samuel B. Woods, John L. Walters, and.
Thomas W. Bailey, for a term commencing ten days from the
passage of this act, and expiring June thirtieth, eighteen
hundred and eighty-nine. The council, before the first of
January, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, shall proceed to
lay off said town into four wards, containing equal popula.
‘tion as far as practicable; to define the boundaries of said
wards, using the streets and alleys of said town as boundary
lines where it can be donc; to prescribe a name or number
for each ward, and establish a voting place in each one there-
of. The mayor and aldermen shall be elected on the fourth
Thursday in May, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and on
the fourth Thursday in May in every second year thereafter.
The mayor shall be elected by the qualified voters of the
town, and three aldermen shall be elected by the qualified
voters of each ward in the town. All persons qualified to
vote in said election, shall be eligible to either of said offices:
provided, that in the case of an alderman, be shall be a voter
in the ward for which he is elected.

§5. There shall be a new registration of the voters of the
town of Charlottesville, to be made at such time during the
year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight as may.be deter-
mined by the council of said town, by which said voters shall
be registered and on the book of the ward or election precinct in
which they respectively reside. Notice of the time and places
for such new registration shall be given by publication in one
or more newspapers of the tewn, and by printed hand-bills
posted in at least five public places in each of said wards or
voting precincts for at least ten days prior to the beginning
of such registration. The registrar of such wards or voting
precincts shall sit for three days at the place or places desig-
nated for such new registration, and shall, within five days
after completing the same, cause to be posted in two or more
public places in their respective wards, written or printed
lists of all persons admitted by them to registration. In all
other respects, except as berein provided, the duties of said
registrars shall be as prescribed by the general registration
laws of the state. The registration made under this act shall
have the same force and virtue as though made under the
said general registration laws; shall be revised, altered, added
to, and amended in the mode prescribed by the said general
law, and shall take the place of all registration of voters
heretofore made in and for said town. The secretary of the

‘commonwealth shall furnish the clerk of the town council
with so many registration books as may be necessary to car-
ry out the provisions of this act. The electoral board of Al-
bemarle county is hereby authorized and directed, at some
date prior to the first of July, eighteen hundred and eighty-
eight, to appoint a registrar for each of the wards or pre-
cincts of said town, and said registrars shall qualify as pre-
scribed by the general law on the subject; shall make said
new registration for their respective wards or precincts; shall
perform the duties and receive the compensation prescribed

y the general laws affecting registration, and hold their
offices for the terms fixed by said general laws, and after the
new registration is made as aforesaid, the election of mayor
and alderman and registration of electors of said town, shall
be held and conducted in the manner provided by the laws of
Virginia then existing.

_ §7. Whenever, from any cause, a vacancy shall occur in
the office of mayor or aldeman, the same shall be filled
by the council at its next regular meeting, either from its
own body or from the qualified electors of the town: pro-
vided that in case of an alderman, he shall be taken from the
ward, if then laid off, in which he is a voter; an entry of said
election to be made on the record book of the corporation.

§9. Until the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and
eighty-nine, the mayor and five aldermen, or in the absence
of the mayor, six aldermen, shall constitute a quorum for the
transaction of all business. But from and atter the thirtieth

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day of June, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, the mayor
and six aldermen, or in the absence of the mayor, seven
aldermen, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of all
business.

§16. The council shall cause to be made up annually, and
entered upon its journal, an accurate estimate of all sums of
money which are or may become lawfuliy chargeable on said
town-and which ought to be paid in one year; and said coun-
cil shall order a town levy of 80 much money aa, in its discre-
tion, shall be sufficient to meet all just demands against the
corporation, and in making said estimate the council shall sct
aside, every year for five years from the passage of this act,
an amount equal to at least one-half of the taxes levied and
collected on the real and personal property each year in the
new territory annexed, undertheamendment of the firstsection
of this act, which said amount shall be expended under the
direction of the said council in laying down water mains, gas
pipes, and making other public improvements in said new
territory annexed as aforesaid.

§17. The levy so made may be laid on all male persons
who are residents of said town over twenty one years of age;
upon dogs; and upon all personal and real estate within said
town, except such persons, personal and real estate as are
exempt from taxation under the laws of this state, and also
upon all other such subjects within said town as may at the
time be assessed with state taxes: provided however, that
the tax on real estate and personal property, including choses
in action, shall not exceed in any one year one dollar on every
hundred dollars value thereof: and provided also that lands
while used for agricultural or grazing purposes included in
this charter, at the time they are taxed, shall be taxed for
incorporation purposes at the same rates that the same lands
would be taxed for county purposes if outside of the corpora-
tion limits: and provided, moreover, that the tax on income
shall not exceed the rate of taxation on the same as fixed by
the laws of this state at the time of said levy. But nothing
contained in this section as hereby amended, shall limit or re-
strict the power of the town council to levy such additional
taxation as they may deem necessary for the use and benefit
of the town, provided such additional taxation shall be au-
thorized and sanctioned by a vote of the qualified voters of
said town in the mode’ and manner prescribed in section
twenty-three of the new charter of said town as hereinafter
amended for creating a loan or loans of money.

§ 20. The council shall require the treasurer of the said
corporation to make out a quarterly report of the receipts
and expenditures, together with a balance sheet, of said town
for the preceding quarter, which report shall state on what
account the expenditures were made, and from what source
or sources the receipts were derived, which report the council
shall cause to be published in one or more newspapers of the
town on or before the fifteenth day of October, January,
April and July of each year.
§21. The council of the said town of Charlottesville is
hereby authorized to make and issue the registered or coupon
bonds of said corporation payable ten years after their date,
bearing interest at not more than six per centum per annum,
payable semi-annually; said bonds to be used exclusively in
paying off and discharging the principal and interest of the

resent bonded debt of the corporation of Charlottesville.

ut said council shall not be authorized to dispose of such
bonds at less than their par value.

Said registered and coupon bonds shall be regularly num-
bered, signed by the mayor, clerk and treasurer of the town
and recorded in a book kept for that purpose.

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