CHAP. 636.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section.7 of an act
of the general assembly of Virginia, approved January 14, 1879,
entitled an act to incorporate the town of Herndon, in the
county of Fairfax.

Approved March 8, 1892.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That section seven of an act of the general assembly of
Virginia, approved January fourteenth, eighteen hundred
and seventy-nine, entitled an act to incorporate the town
of Herndon, in the county of Fairfax, as amended by an
act approved March fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety,
be, and the same is hereby, amended and re-enacted so as
to read as follows:

8 7. The council may annually levy a tax for roads and
corporation purposes, which on no property shall ex-
ceed fifty cents on the one hundred dollars’ valuation, ex-
cept that on a petition of two-thirds of the freeholders
within the corporation, road or school tax not to exceed
the amount named in said petition, and in any case where
taxes and levies on real estate are delinquent, and have
been returned according to the provisions of section ten
hundred and forty-six of the code of Virginia, the council,
in addition to the power it now has under the general law
to enforce the collection of delinquent taxes and levies, shall
have the right to provide for the renting of such real estate
to pay the amount of delinquency and the costs of renting,
and whenever any new street shall be opened, any existing
street extended, graded or paved, sidewalks constructed
or any culvert or other public improvement made, the
council may determine what proportion of the expense
thereof shall be paid by the town and what proportion by
the owners of the real estate thereby benefited, and shall
assess each owner with the payment of his just share of
the expense, the same to be collected in the manner herein
provided for the collection of other taxes, but no part of
the expense of such improvement shal] be assessed against
the said owners, except such improvement be ordered by
a two-thirds majority of the council upon the petition of
a majority of the owners of the real estate along the street
to be effected by such public improvement.

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