Chap. 420.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 10 of an act
entitled ‘‘an act to incorporate the town of Hampton, in Eliza- -
beth City county, Virginia, approved May 23. 1881,’ and to fur-
ther amend and re-enact the said act by the adding of two
additional sections thereto, to be known as sections 14 and 15,
respectively, and to further amend and re-enact said act by
changing the numoers of sections 14and 15 in said act to 16 and
17, respectively.

Approved February 29, 1892.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That section ten of an act entitled “an act to incorporate
the town of Hampton, in Elizabeth City county, Virginia,”
approved: May twenty-three, eighteen hundred and eighty-
seven, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 10. That the council of said town shall elect from the
electors of said town one person, who shall be denomina-
ted the town clerk. His duties shall be to keep a correct
record of all the proceedings of the council; to provide the
requisite books and stationery to make out a list of the
property and persons to be taxed within the limits of the
town, and to fix the valuation of the same as dotermined
by the officers of the state for state taxation; to issue
tickets for taxes levied by the council, which tickets he
shall deliver to the treasurer of the town when ordered by
the council; to keep in a well-bound book (which book
shall at all times be open to the inspection of the public,
and be properly and conveniently indexed for reference)
a true and accurate account of the special tax or assess-
ment hereinafter provided for in section fifteen of this
act, giving a description of the lot on which said special
tax or assessment has been levied, the name of the owner
thereof, and the amount of such special tax or assessment
due thereon; and perform such other duties and execute
such bonds, with such security, as the council may from
time to time prescribe.

2. And be it further enacted by the general assembly
of Virginia, That the said act entitled “an act to incorpo-
rate the town of Hampton, in Elizabeth City county, Vir-
ginia,” be further amended and re-enacted by adding
thereto the two following sections, to be known, respect-
ively, as sections fourteen and fifteen, which said sections
shall be and become a part of said act as amended by this
act, as follows:

§ 14. That in addition to the powers conferred by sec-
tion ten hundred and thirty-eight of chapter forty-four of
the code of Virginia of eighteen hundred and eighty-
seven, the council of the town of Hampton shall have
power to open, or extend, widen or narrow, graduate, curb
and pave the streets, sidewalks and public alleys in said
town, and to make such ordinances, by-laws, orders and
regulations as it may deem necessary to prevent hogs,
dogs and other animals from running at large in the lim-
its of the town, and may subject the owners thereof to
such fines, regulations and taxes as the council may deem
proper, and may confiscate and kill said dogs, and sell the
other of said animals at public auction, toenforce the pay-
ment of said fines and taxes, where said fines and taxes
cannot be otherwise collected.

§ 15. That whenever any sidewalk or footway along any
street or public alley is curbed and paved, it shall be done
at the proper cost and expense of the owner or occupant of
the lot along the front or side or sidesof which such footway
or sidewalk extends; and the said council may levy and
collect for that purpose a special tax or assessment on such
lot equal in amount to the actual cost of such curbing,
which special tax or assessment shall be certified by the
council to the treasurer of the town, and shall be a lien
on such lot as is provided by law in cases of state taxes
on real estate. It may be collected as other taxes on real
estate within said town are collected by law, except that the
said council shall bave power to. authorize said special tax
or assessments to be paid in such instalments and on such
terms as to interest not exceeding six per centum per an-
num as the council may deem proper; and in every case
in which said special tax or assessment is ordered to be
paid in instalments, a copy of such order shall be certified
to the treasurer of said town. In all cases where a lessee
or tenant shall pay the cost and expense of any such curb-
ing or pavement along the front or side or sides of the-lot
by him occupied, for which lot, by a contract with his les-
sor or landlord, he shall be bound to pay rent, the amount
of any such cost and expense paid by him, or collected
from him, or made out of his property, shall be a good and
valid set-off against so much of the rent due or accruing
to his lessor or landlord as may have been so paid by, col-
lected from, or made out of said tenant or lessee.

3. And be it further enacted by the general assembly of
Virginia, That the said act entitled “an act to incorporate
the town of Hampton, in Elizabeth City county, Virginia,”
be further amended and re-enacted so that sections four-
teen and fifteen in said act shall be, and become, respect-
ively sections sixteen and seventeen therein.

4, That this act shall be enforced from its passage.