Chap. 145.—An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to allow the city
of Fredericksburg to supply gas or electric light for use of said city,
and to issue bonds of the city to effect said purpose.

Approved May 6, 1887.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the first and sixth sections of an act entitled an act to allow
the city of Fredericksburg to supply gas or clectric light for
use of said city, and to issue bonds of the city to effect said
purpose, approved February twenty-seven, eighteen hundred
and eighty-six, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

§ 1. That it shall be lawful for the city of F redericksburg
to provide for supplying said city and the inhabitants thereot
with a suitable and adequate supply of light by leasing or by
the purchase and enlargement or improvement of suitable
gas works, or by the erection of a plant for supplying said
city and its inhabitants with electric hght, or both gas and
electric heht, and to that end to borrow money, and to issue
and negotiate the bonds of said city for the same, to the ex-
tent of “thirty -seven thousand tive hundred dollars.

§ 6. After ‘sald council shall have matured and adopted a
plan or scheme for supplying said city with gas or electric
light as aforesaid, it shall submit such plan or scheme, and
any alternative plan or scheme that said council may deem
proper, to the qualified voters of said city at such time and
In such manneras said council may prescribe, consistent with
this act, for their ratification or rejection; and at the same
time said council strall submit to the qualitied voters of said
city the question whether the city shall acquire and operate
works of its own for lighting the city. Atleast ten di: uys!
notice of the time and manner of holding such election shall
be given by publication in two newspapers published in said
city, and by band bills posted therein; and the result thereof
shall be ascertained and declared in the manner prescribed
by said council, and shall be proclaimed by the mayor by
publication. If at such election a majority of the qualified
voters of said city who shall vote at said election, embracing
a majority of the frecholders of said city so voting, shall
vote in the affirmative upon the question whether the city
shall acquire and operate works of its own for lighting the
city, then, and in that event, the plan or scheme tor supply-
ing said city with gas or electric light as aforesaid, which
shall receive the greatest number of votes at said election,
shall be declared adopted, and shall be carried out by said
city. If the vote upon the question of the city’s acquiring
and operating its own works for lighting the city be in the
negative, then this act shall be null and void. The vote
under this act shall be taken within threo years from the
date of the approval of this act, and not thereafter.

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