CHAP. 487.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5, 6 and 13
of an act to amend the charter and to extend and define the
boundaries of the city of Norfolk, approved April 6, 1887.

Approved March 3, 1890.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia.
That sections five, six and thirteen of an act approved
April six, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled an
act to amend the charter and to extend and define the
boundaries of the city of Norfolk, be, and the same are
hereby, amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

$5. The inhabitants of the territory hereby annexed and
the owners of lands lying therein, shall not be liable on
their real and personal property within the said district
for the period of fifteen years from the first day of July,
eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, for any part of the
present debt of the city of Norfolk, nor for interest thereon,
nor shall any tax be levied therefor; nor shall they have
to pay an ad valorem tax to the city exceeding the rate
levied by the county of Norfolk for general purposes 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, grade, gut-
ter, curb or pave, sewer, drain, or otherwise improve such
street, or make any other local improvement of a perma-
nent character not applicable to the entire ward, in which
case the costs thereof shall be assessed against the owners
of real property benefited by such improvement as is at
present provided by law in said city, andany part of the
costs of same that the city may agree to pay shall be paid
as hereinafter provided for by section thirteen of this act.
The city shall, upon the petition of a majority of the prop-
erty-owners on any street in the newly-acquired territory,
extend a watermain and supply water to the citizens along
the line of the said street between any two or more cross
streets: provided, the said property lying on the said
street between the said two or more cross streets immedi-
ately adjoin a street upon which a water-main hag been at
the time of the said petition already extended; then, in
addition to the ad valorem tax for general purposes, pav-
able to the city of Norfolk as aforesaid, the same rate of
special water-tax shall be assessed on the real and personal
property along the line of such street wherever a water-
main shall have been extended as may be assessed upon
property within the present limits of the city of Norfolk
during the year for which such assessment shall be levied,
and the same charges shall be made upon those property-
owners who shall connect their property with the said
water-main as shal] be made upon other property-owners
in the city of Norfolk; and the cost of laying such water-
main may be paid by the city as may be ordered by the
councils, on the recommendation of the local board of im-
provement of the ward in which such water-main may be
laid, in whole or in part, out of the tax collected for gen-
eral purposes from such ward; and any balance 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-
acquired territory as shall be asseased within the present
limits of the city.

§6. All taxes levied and collected upon persons and prop-
erty within the limits hereby added to the city of Norfolk,
excepting water-tax and licenses, shall be collected by the
city collector, who shall, after deducting his fees, pay the
same into the treasury of the city, to be set apart as a
special fund for the improvement, protection, schools,
police, and every other expenditure of said ward from
which it is collected; to be appropriated by the councils
on the recommendation of local board of improvement in
the ward, the said board to consist of nine residents in
said ward—namely, J. J. Dudley, S. C. Phillips, D. Ethe-
ridge, F. D. Pinkerton, R. D. Nickols, and four other resi-
dents in said ward, to be elected by the councils in joint
session on the first Tuesday in May, eighteen hundred and
ninety, to hold office from the date of their election until
the first day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-one,
and until their successors are elected and qualified; and
the said board to consist thereafter of nine, residents in
said ward, to be elected by the councils in joint session
on the first Tuesday in July, eighteen hundred and ninety-
one, for a term of two years from the first day of July,
eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and biennially there-
after, any vacancy occurring in the said board to be filled
by the councils in joint session by the election of some
resident in said ward to fill said vacancy, and any person
so elected to fill a vacancy in said board to hold office
until the expiration of the term of the person in whose
place. or stead such person is elected; and all bills for
money spent within said ward shall be certified by said
local board of improvement before being ordered to be
paid by the councils. All works of internal improvement
within the newly-annexed territory shall be under the
supervision of the city engineer, as provided by law within
the present limits of the city. It shall not be lawful for
the councils, during the before-mentioned period of fifteen
years, 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 hereinbefore provided, from
said ward, unless the same be an unexpended balance col-
lected during some previous year, except as provided by
section five for special local improvement, or from funds
raised by the sale of bonds, as hereinafter provided.

$13. It shall not be lawful for the city of Norfolk to
issue bonds predicated upon or taking into account the
assessed value of real and personal property embraced in
the newly-acquired territory until the expiration of fifteen
years from the first day of July, eighteen hundred and
eighty-seven, unless the same shall be issued by the city
to pay for the purchase of property to be used for public
school purposes in said ward, or for any local improvement
of a permanent character made in accordance with section
five of this act. in which case bonds shall be issued
by the councils for the city of Norfolk for the amount
necessary to pay for such school property in said ward,
and other local improvements of a permanent character,
as aforesaid, not to exceed the sum of twenty thousand
dollars in any one year, and the proceeds of said bonds
shall be expended in the same manner as provided by
section six for the expenditure of the collected for general
purposes. An account of bonds issued under this section
shall be kept by the board of sinking fund commissioners,
and also by the city treasurer. The amount necessary to
pay the interest on such bonds shall be annually reserved
by the city treasurer out of the tax levied for general pur-
poses from the said territory in which such improvement
shal] be made to pay the interest on said bonds as it
becomes due and payable.

2. This act shall be in force from and ater the first day
of May, eighteen hundred and ninety.