Chap. 418.—An ACT to provide for the adjustment and division of liabilities,
property and assets between the county of Warwick and the city of Newport
ews, Virginia, and to provide for the occupation of certain property.

Approved February 24, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That on or
before the first day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, except
as hereinafter provided, the treasurer of the county of Warwick is
hereby directed to pay to the treasurer of the city of Newport News,
or such other person as may be designated by the common council of
the said city of Newport News to receive the same, three-fourths of
all money derived from assessment, levy, license, taxation or other
means upon the subject of assessment, laid, levied or taken prior to
the first day of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, which
may remain after the payment of the said county of only such cur-
rent expenses and charges to meet with such assessment, levy,
license, taxation or other means of raising money was laid, levied or
taken, for the payment of which the county of Warwick may now be
bound.

2. That if all the moneys accruing by reason of such assessment,
levy, license, taxation or other mode of raising money shall not be
collected by the treasurer of the county of Warwick prior to the first
day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, that three-fourths of
such further sum so derived, as they are from time to time collected,
shall be immediately paid by the treasurer of the county of Warwick
to the treasurer of the city of Newport News or other person ap-
pointed by the common council of said city.

3. That immediately upon the passage of this act the treasurer of
the county of Warwick shall pay to the treasurer of the city of New-
port News, or to such other person as the common council of the said
city shall designate to receive the same, the sum of five thousand
dollars, which said sum shall be considered a payment by the said
treasurer on account of the sum hereinbefore directed to be paid by
him to the treasurer of the city of Newport News or other person
appointed by the common council of the said city of Newport News.
And if it shall hereafter appear that the said sum of five thousand
dollars so paid by the treasurer of the county of Warwick shall
exceed the sum to which the said city of Newport News shall be
entitled by the provisions of this act, then the said city shall pay
over to the county the amount of such excess.

4. Upon a failure of the treasurer of the county of Warwick imme.
diately to pay over to the treasurer of the city of Newport News, or
to such other person as may be designated by the common council o!
the city of Newport News to receive the same, the several sums o:
money mentioned in this act when the same shall by the terms o
this act have become payable to the said city or to its officials o
agents, the common council of the said city is hereby authorized an
empowered to enter suit for and recover the said sum against th
treasurer of the county of Warwick on his official bond in the cir
cuit court of the county of Warwick.
5. The title to the court-house and buildings and property and fur-
niture appurtenant thereto and connected therewith, situate at New-
port News, Virginia, and the poor-house recently erected in Den-
beigh district, Warwick county, shall vest in fee simple in the city
of Newport News from and after the passage of this act. Said city
shall assume such part of the bonded indebtedness of the said county
of Warwick as was incurred for and expended in the erection of the
said court-house and building and property and furniture appurte-
nant thereto: and such bonded indebtedness of the said county, so
incurred and expended in the city of Newport News, shall pay when
it shall hereinafter become due and payable by the said county.

6. All county and school property situated outside of the corporate
limits of the city of Newport News and not hereinbefore specifically
mentioned, shall be, and remain, the property of the county of War-
wick, and the school districts therein as now provided by law, and all
such property situate within the corporate limits of the city of New-
port News, shall be, and remain, the property of the city of Newport
News and the school districts therein as now provided by law.

7. The county of Warwick shall be entitled, until the first day of
January, nineteen hundred and two, to occupy such portion of the
poor-house recently erected, situate in Denbeigh district, in Warwick
county, without compensation to the said city, as the judge of the
circuit court of Warwick county may deem just and proper.

8. The board of supervisors of Warwick county are hereby empow-
ered and directed to execute any deed or deeds conveying their inter-
est or that of the county of Warwick which may be necessary or
advisable for the effectual operation of the purposes of this act as
herein declared.

9. am acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby re-
pealed.

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