Chap. 102.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 57 of the charter of the
city of Manchester, and to validate al] taxes and assessments in said city
made prior to and including the years 1895 and 1896.

Approved January 21, 1806.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
fifty-seven (sub title finances) of an act entitled an act to provide
a charter for the city of Manchester, approved March twentieth,
eighteen hundred and seventy-four, as amended by an act approved
December nineteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, be amend-
ed and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 57. The bonded debt of the city of Manchester shall not at any
time be more than twenty per centum of the assessed value of
the taxable real estate in the said city. The city council shall, by or-
dinances adopted for the purpose, establish such sinking funds as in
ita discretion may be proper in order to provide for the retirement
or payment of said city’s bonded debt at the maturity of the sev-
eral series of bonds; the city council shall impose such taxés, and
make such assessments as shall be sufficient, with the other ordi-
nary revenues of the city, to pay the interest on the bonded debt
and the other ordinary annual'expenses of the city; and the latter
clause of section fifty-seven having, by inadvertence in drawing the
act approved December nineteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-
nine, been left out in said act, be it further enacted that all levies
of taxes and assessments heretofore made by the city council of
the city of Manchester prior to and including the years eighteen
hundred and ninety-five, and eighteen hundred and ninety-six, shall
be,and they are hereby, declared valid and legal and binding in all
respects upon said city and all persons interested therein and all
property affected thereby, and that all acts done and proceedings
taken prior to and including the years eighteen hundred and ninety-
five and eighteen hundred and ninety-six, under said tax levies or
assessments made by the city council or the officers of said city, un-
der the ordinances of said city providing for the levying, assessment
and collection of city taxes and assessments, be, and the same are
hereby, declared to be legal and binding in all respects whatsoever,
and shall have the same full force and effect, both at law and in
equity, as they would have had if such inadvertence and mistake
had not happened in drawing said act approved December nine-
teenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and the said section
fifty seven of said charter had been then amended and re-enacted
in the same words as the same is hereinbefore set out and amended
and re-enacted.

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