Chap. 41.—An ACT to amend the charter and to extend and define
the boundries of the city of Norfolk,

Approved April 6, ESs?,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the boundaries of the city of Nortolk shall be extended and
detined as follows: Beginning at the intersection of the pre-
sent city limits on the eastern side of the city, with a line
running along the south side of Whitehead’s pond; thence
along the middle of Corprew avenue to the intersection of

said avenue with Ohio creek, and alone the channel of said
ereck to its intersection with the port warden’s line of the
eastern branch of the Elizabeth river; and thence following
the port warden’s line of said eastern branch of the Elizabeth
river, Westward to the present city limits; and thence around
the city as detined by the act of the general assembly, in force
January twenty-first, eighteen hundred and eighty-four.
2. The annexed territory shall be known as Brambleton
Weard, and shall be entitled to three representatives in the
city councils; and this ward, and the remaining wards of the
city, shall remain as at present bounded until a reapportion-
ment of the city of Nortolk shall be made by the levislature.

3. The councils of the city of Norfolk shall designate one
or more voting precincts in the above ward, and the registrs
tion of the qualified voters thereof’ shall take place at the
same time and in like manner as.at present provided by law
Im said city.

4. The three councilmen bereinbefore provided for, shall
be as follows: Samuel D. Rhodes, James J. Dudley, and W.
W. Vicar, for a term commencing July first. eighteen hun-
dred and cighty-seven, and expiring June thirtieth, eighteen
hundred and cightyv-eight; and their successors shall be elected
biennially thereafter in like manner as other councilmen of
the city are elected.
9. The inhabitants of the territory hereby annexed, and
te owners of lands lying therein shall not be lable on their

eal and pe ‘rsonal. property within the said district for the
ne ‘riod of fifteen years from the passage of this aet, for any
part of the present debt of the city of Norfolk, nor for the
Interest thereon; nor shall any tux be levied therefor, nor
shall they have to pay an ad valorem tax to the city exceed:
ing the rate levied by thecotnty of Nortolk for eeneral pur-
poses, for the year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, viz.:
Seventy cents on the one hundred dollars unless the city
Shall, upon petition of a majority of the property owners on
any street in the newly acquired territory, approved by the
local improvement board thereof, open, lay off, erade, gutter,
curb or pave, sewer, drain, or otherwise improve such street
or make any other local improvement of a permanent char-
acter not applicable to the entire ward, in which case the cost
thereof shall be assessed against the owners of real property
benefitted by such improvement, as is at present provided by
law in said City; and any part of the cost of same that the
city may agree to pay. shall be paid as is hereinatter provided
for by section thirteen of this act. The city shall, upon the
petition of a majority of the property owners on any street
in the newly acquired territory, extend a water-main and
supply water to the citizens along its line: then, in addition
to the ad valorem tax for eeneral purposes, payable to the
city of Norfolk as atoresnid, the same rate of special water
tax shall be assessed on the real and personal property along
the line of such street, as may be assessed upon property
within the present limits of the city of Norfolk during the
year for which such assessment sball be levid; and the same
charges shall be made upon those property owners who shall
connect their property with the said water-main as shall be
made upon other property owners in the city of Nortolk; and
the cost of laying such water-main may be paid by the city
as may bo ordered by the councils, on the recommendation of
the local board of improvement of the ward in which such
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water-main may be laid, in whole or in part out of the tax
collected for ceneral purposes from such ward; and any bal-
ance not so paid shall be paid from the proceeds of bonds to
be issued by the city in accordance with section thirteen of
this act; and except further that the city shall assess the same
licenses for doing business of all kinds within the newly ac-
quired territory as shall be assessed within the present limits
of the city.

6. All taxes levied and colfected upon persons and property
Within the limits hereby added to the city of Norfolk, except-
ing water tax and licenses, shall be collected by the city col-
lector, who shall, after dedueting his fees, pay the same into
the treasnry of the city, to be set apart as a special fund forthe
improvement, protection, schools, police, and ev ery other ex-
penditure of the said ward from which it is colleeted; to be
appropriated by the councils on the recommendation of a
local board of improvement in the ward, which shall be com-
posed of five residents in said ward, to be elected by the
councils in joint session, on the first Tuesday in July, eighteen
hundred and cighty-seven, to hold office for the term of two
years from and after the first day of July, eighteen hundred
and cighty-seven, and biennially thereafter, and all bills for
money spent within said ward, shall be certified by the
said local board of improvement before being ordered to be
paid by the councils. ATL worles: of internal improvement
Within the newly annexed territory, shall be under the super-
Vision of the city engineer, as provided by law within the
present limits of the city. It shall not be lawtul for the
councils during the before mentioned period of fifteen vears,
to expend more money in the ward hereby added to the city

of Norfolk, than shall be collected during the year for general
purposes, as hereinbetore provided, from said ward, unless
the same be an unexpended balance collected during some
previous year, except as provided by section five for special
local improvement.

7. The water tax, collected as hereinbefore provided, shall
be paid into the treasury of the water department, and the
licenses collected shall be covered into the city treasury, to-
ward the payment of salaries of the general otlicers of the
city.

8. For the period of fifteen years from the date of this act,
the ordinance entitled wooden-houses, chapter nineteen, page
seventy-three, city ordinances of eighteen hundred and eighty-
five, and sections five, cleven, twenty-three, and twenty-tive,
of the ordinance entitled nuisances, shall not be operative
Within the newly acquired territory. And the ordinance
entitled paving, page one hundred and twelve, shall not be
Operative on any street within said territory already opened,
and having houses erected along the line thereot, unless go
ordered by the majority of the votes cast in any election in
said ward; but any ordinance or part thereof, may be sub-
mitted to the votes of the people at any regular election, by
the councils, upon the recommendation of the local board of
improvement, thirty days’ notice thereof being published prior
to such election.

9. It shall be lawful for the sheriff or other collectors of
the county of Norfolk, to collect and make distress for any
public dues or officers’ fees which shall remain unpaid by the
Inhabitants embraced witbin the limits of the extension of
the city of Norfolk, at the time when this act shall commence
and be in force; and they shall be accountable for the same
in like manner, as if this act had never been passed. The
taxes for the year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, shall
be considered due and payable to Nortolk county.

10. All that territory in Norfolk county, or any part thereof,
lying outside of the territory hereby annexed to the city of
Nortolk, and bounded by a line extended from the intersee-
tion of the channel of Ohio creek. and the port: warden’s
line of the eastern branch of the Elizabeth river, in an east-
erly direction, to its intersection with the channel of Broad
ereck; thence following the channel of Broad creek to its
intersection with the lineSof the old entrenched camp; and
thence following the line of the old entrenched camp to Tan-
ners creek, and alone the channel of Tanners creek, in a
mage most rly direction, to dts interesection with the port

rarden’s line of the Elizabeth river, and dlong the said port
warden’s line to its intersection with the present city linits
at the channel of Smith’s creek; or any other territory in
Norfolk county, shall have the right at any time that an
election is petitioned for by twenty-five frecholders resident
therein, to vote to annex such territory, or part thereof, as

may be detined in the petition to the city ot Nortoll. on the
gime terms and conditions as are extended by this act to the
territory annexed hereby to the city of Nortolk,

11. The territory detined in suc petition foran election to
vote on the question of annexation, is hereby constituted a
voting precinct tor that purpose only. Upon the presentation
of such petition for an election, and as soon as possible there-

after, the circuit court of Nortolk county or the judye thereof
in vacation, shall order such election, and give due notice
thereof by publication for thirty days in two or more daily
papers of the city of Norfolk. and by posting notice thereof
tor the same period at the courthouse door of Nortolk county,
and at the voting places of said precinct. The said court, or
judge in vacation, shall designate the time and place tor hold-
ing such election, and shall appoint reeistrars. judges, and
other officers of election, who shall hold said election, and in
their failure to act, the election shall be held as prescribed in
the general clection law ot Virginia. The said judee shall
order a revistration of the qualitied voters therein at least ten
days before said election. ‘Phe maine of each voter shall be
endorsed on the back of his ballot, as prescribed in chapter
RIxty-one, section sixty-three, Code of Virginia, ciehteen hun-
dred and seventy-three. And it shall be the duty of the com-
missioners of election to meet at the county courthouse,
within three days atter said election, and canvass said votes,
as prescribed in the general laws of Virginia; and if it shall
appear that a majority of the qualified voters voting, which
shall inelude a majority of the treeboldcrs who shall vote in
said territory, have voted for annexation, then said territory
shall immediately thereafter be annexed to the city of Nor-
folk under the provisions of this act: provided, the councils
of the city of Norfolk give their consent thereto. All costs
of the revistration and election, hereinbefore provided, shall
be paid by the eity or county, whichever the said territory
decides to be a part of: provided further, that no election
shill be held within the same boundaries, looking to annex-
ation, at shorter intervals than the period ‘of one year.

12. The said councils shall thereatter divide the said terri-
tory into wards. and apportion their representation in the

councils, and shall fix voting precincts and arrange by ordi-

nances all such necessary details as shail be expedient to con-
form to the government of the citv of Nortotl.

3. It shall not be lawful for tie city of Norfolk to issue
bonds predi¢ated upon or taking into account, the assessed
ralue of real and personal property, embraced in the newly-
acquired territory, until the expiration of fifteen years from
the date of this act; unless the same shall be issued by the
city, to pay its proportion of any local improvement of a per-
manent character, made in accordance with section tive of this
vet, in which case bonds may be issued by the councils for
the city of Nortolk for the amount necessary to pay for such
Improvements, and the proceeds of said bonds shall be ex-
pended in the same manner as provided by section six for the
expenditure of the tax collected for general purposes. An ae-
count of bonds issued under this section shall be kept by the
board of sinking tund commissioners, and also by the city
trensurer. The amount hecessary to pay the interest onsuch
bonds shall be annually reserved by the city treasurer out of
the tax levied for general purposes from the said territory In
Which such improvements shall be made, to pay the interest
on said bonds as it becomes due and payable.

14. The qualiticd voters in the tervitory hereby annexed
to the «ity of Norfolk, are hereby empowcred to vote on the
question whether the sale of liquor within the limits of said
territory shad be licensed or not, in the same manner as is
provided fora magisterial district of a county, by the act of
the legislature, approved Pebruary the twenty-sixth, eighteen
hundred and eighty-six, entitled an act to ‘provide for sub-
mitting the question of liquor license to the qualified voters
of the several counties, Corporations, and magisterial districts,
Acts eighteen hundred and Melty-live and six, chapter two
hundred and forty-eight, page two hundred and fifty eight.

15. The three councilmen trom the annexed territory shall
be divided by the councils in joint session at their first meet-
ing in July, cighteen hundred and eighty seven, and one of
them shall be apportioned to the scleet council, making a total

of twelve members in that body, and the other two members

shall be apportioned to the common council, making a total
of twenty-one members in that body.
16. The councils shall, at their first meeting in July, cigh-
teen hundred and eizhty-seven, elect one magistrate from said
ward who shall serve tor a term of one year, or until bis suc-
cessor is duly clected and qualified, and the councils shall
thereafter elect a mavistrate from said ward at the same time
and in the same manner as from the other wards of the city.
Said magistrate shall be a resident of and have his office in
his said ward.

17. After the passave of this act, the councils of the city
of Norfolk shall cause to be made, as soon as practicable. a
plot of all that territory defined in this act, bounded by the
Elizabeth river, Broad creck. the old entrenched camp and
Tanner's creek, and extend thereon the streets and avenues
of the city as they should be, to conform best to the streets
of the city and its suburbs, and to the conformation of the
country; and the councils of the said city shall thereafter
supply maps. in accordance with said plat uta fair price, to
such persons as may want them, and shall take all possible
means to get property owners In opening thoroughfares,
avenues, streets, lanes, and so forth, to conform. to said plot.

18, This act shall be in force on and after July first, eleh-
teen hundred and eighty-seven.