CHAP. 199.—AN ACT to provide fire-escapes from buildings of
over three stories.

Approved March 4, 1890.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That it shall be the duty of the owner or owners of all fac-
tories, workshops, hotels, school-buildings,,and hospitals
in this state of over three stories in height, theatres, and
public places of amusement, to provide for the safe exit of
the occupants thereof in case of fire, by the erection or
construction of fire-escapes of the most approved modern.
design.

2. The character and design of said fire-escapes shall,
in cities and towns, be selected by the council of said
cities and towns; and where the buildings are not loca-
ted in cities or towns, by a board composed of the county
judge, the county school superintendent, and the chairman
of the board of supervisors.

3. Any owner or owners of such buildings shall have
the right to require the council of the city or town in
which said buildings are located, or in the counties the
board designated by this act, to make such selection of
said fire-escapes as is provided by this act; and, in case
of their failure or refusal, they shall be compellable by
mandamus.

4. Any owner or owners of such buildings who shal! fail
to comply with the first section of this act by the first day
of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction,
shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more
than one hundred dollars, for each month they shall fail
to provide such fire-escape

5. This act shall be in force from its passage.
‘HAP. 200.—An ACT to release Samuel Vaughan, of Grayson
county, from payment of cost. .

Approved March 4, 1890.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That Samuel Vaughn, of Grayson county, be, and he is
1ereby, released from the payment of one hundred and
hirty-seven dollars cost taxed against him in the county
court of Grayson at the October term, eighteen hundred
and eighty-nine, upon the verdict of a jury who fined
said Vaughn five dollars for misdemeanor, but did not
ind that he should pay costs, as will appear from the peti-
‘tion of the jury filed. .

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

CHAP. 201—An ACT to authorize the auditor of public accounts
to credit J. A. Dickey, late treasurer of Grayson county, with a
receipt held by him.

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Approved March 4, 1890.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That the auditor of public accounts be, and is hereby,
authorized and directed to credit J. A. Dickey in the set-
tlement of his account as late treasurer of the county of
Grayson, with the sum of one hundred and fifty-five dol-
lars and thirty-nine cents as of the sixth day of October,
eighteen hundred and seventy-four, that being the amount
for which said Dickey holds the receipt of A. A. Lorentz,
first clerk in the auditor’s office at the time of the pay-
ment.

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

CHAP, 2022.—An ACT to provide a re-assessment of the lands in
Atlantic City ward in the city of Norfolk.

Approved March 4, 1890.

Whereas the land books of the county of Norfolk are in
acondition from which it is impossible to obtain a correct
transcript therefrom of the lots, parcels, and tracts of
land thereon now embraced within the limits of Atlantic
City ward in the city of Norfolk; and whereas it has be-
come necessary for the purpose of extending the taxes for
the year eighteen hundred and ninety that said lots, par-
cels, and tracts of land, with their improvements, be
transferred to the land books of the city of Norfolk;
therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That the judge of the corporation court of the city of
Norfolk shall, immediately upon the passsage of this act,
appoint some discreet person, a resident of the city of
Norfolk, whose duty it shall be to define the several lots,
parcels, and tracts of land in Atlantic City ward in said
city, and to place the same, with the names of the owners
thereof, in a clear, legible hand-writing upon the land
books of said ¢ity, for the year eighteen hundred and
ninety, wich their present assessed values, as made in pur-
suance to an act of the general assembly of Virginia enti-
tled an act to provide for a new assessment of the real
estate of Tanner’s creek magisterial district of Norfolk
county, approved March first, eighteen hundred and eighty-
Bix.

2. That said person so appointed shall be further em-
powered to place on said land books all lots of land and
improvements on lots in said ward which do not now
appear on the land books of Norfolk county; and to charge
in the name of the presgnt owners all lots of land, with
their improvements, wherein changes may have been
occasioned since the said last assessment, by reason of sale
or otherwise. And whenever any of said lots or improve-
ments do not appear to have been assessed on the land
books of said county, to assess the same on the land
books of said city at the rates of the present assessed
values of the lots of land and improvements thereon of
adjacent property holders in said ward.

3. Such assessor shall be paid such sum for his services
as is provided by section four hundred and forty-six of
the code of Virginia of eighteen hundred and eighty-
seven, and all the expenses of said re-assessment, includ-
ing the compensation of said assessor, shall be paid out
of the taxes of said ward.

4. The taxes upon property in said ward for the year
eighteen hundred and ninety shall be extended in accord-
ance with the said re-assessment; but nothing in this act
contained shall be construed as in any way removing the
property in said ward from the operation of the law as it
now stands providing for the regular re-assessment of
lands, to be made in the year eighteen hundred and ninety.

5. This act shall be in force from its passage.
Cnal. 20883—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 585 of the
ende of Virginia of 1887, as to how election ordered in a town
upon the question of liquor license.

Approved March 4, 1890.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That section five hundred and eight-five of the code of
Virginia be amended and re-enacted so as to read as fol-
OWe :

$585. How elections ordered in a town; if a majority
gainst license none is to be granted.—If any town con-
tituting a seperate election district shall desire to avail
teelf of the provisions of this chapter, a petition of such
f the qualified voters of such town as constitute one-fourth
f the persons voting at the preceding regular November
lection may be presented, in term or vacation, to the
udge of the county or corporation court having jurisdic-
on of said town, who shall thereupon order a special
lection in conformity with the provisions of the four pre-
ceding sections, and if it appear from the abstracts and
returns that a majority of the votes cast at such election
were against liquor license, no license shall be granted for
the sale of wine, spirituous, or malt liquors, or any mix-
tures thereof, within the corporate limits of such town.

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