Chap. 633.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act approved
February 22, 1890, entitled an act to extend the boundaries of the city of Nor-
folk, and to amend and re-enact sections 5, 6,and 12 of said act, as amended
by an act approved February 12, 1892, entitled an act to amend and re-enact
sections 5, 6, and 12 of an act entitled an act to extend the boundaries of the
city of Norfolk, approved February 22, 1890.

Approved March 3, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, Thet section
two of an act approved February twenty-second, eighteen hundred
and ninety, entitled an act to extend the boundaries of the city of
Norfolk, and that sections five, six, and twelve of said act,as amended
by an act approved February twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-
two, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections five, six, and
twelve of an act entitled an act to extend the boundaries of the city
of Norfolk, approved February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and
ninety, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
§ 2. The annexed territory shall be known as the sixth, or Atlantic
City, ward, and shall be entitled to three representatives in the city
councils, to be elected by the voters of the ward. This ward and the
remaining wards of the city shall remain as at present bounded un-
til a reapportionment of the city of Norfolk shall be made by the
legislature.

§ 5. The city shall assess the same license taxes for doing business
of all kinds within the newly-acquired territory as shall be assessed
within the present limits of the city, but, save such license taxes,
the inhabitants of the territory hereby annexed and the owners of
lands lying therein, shall not be liable on their real and personal
property within the said ward for the period of fifteen years from
the twenty-second day of February, eighteen hundred and ninety,
for any part of the present debt of the city of Norfolk, nor for the
interest thereon; nor shall any tax be levied therefor, nor shall they
have to pay an ad valorem tax to the city exceeding the rate levied
by the county of Norfolk for general purposes for the year eighteen
hundred and eighty-six, namely, seventy cents on the one hundred
dollars, unless for the purpose of paying interest on bonds which
may be issued under section twelve of this act, an increase over the
said rate of taxation be ordered by a majority of the votes cast on
this question in any election of the said ward; and whether or not
such an increase shall be made shall be submitted to the vote of the
qualified electors of the said ward at any regular or special election
by the city councils, upon the recommendation of the local board of
improvement of the said ward, notice thereof being published for at
least thirty days prior to such election in some newspaper published
in the city of Norfolk, and unless the city shall, upon the recom-
mendation of the local board of improvement of said ward, acquire
otherwise than by gift or voluntary grant or devise, property, real or
personal, for public free school purposes in said ward, or shall erect
a public free school building or buildings, or shall enlarge or repair
existing public free schoo] buildings in said ward and the cost thereof,
unless the school tax, as provided in section six of this act, shall be
sufficient for that purpose, shall be paid from the proceeds of the
sale of bonds to be issued by the city in accordance with section
twelve of this act; and unless, further, the city shal], upon petition
of a majority of the property owners on any street in the newly ac-
quired territory, approved by the local board of improvement, open,
lay off, grade, gutter, curb, or pave, sewer, drain, or otherwise im-
prove such streets, or make any other improvement of a permanent
character, in which case the cost thereof shall be assessed against
the owners of real property which is benefited by such improve-
ments, as is at present provided by law in said city; and any part of
the cost of the same that the city may agree to pay shall be paid as
is hereinafter provided for by section twelve of this act. The city
shall, upon a petition of a majority of the property owners on any
street in the newly-acquired territory, extend a-water main and sup-
ply water to the citizens along its line; then, in addition to the ad
valorem tax for general purposes, payable to the city of Norfolk as
aforesaid, the same rate of special water tax shall be assessed on the
‘eal and personal property along the line of such street as may be
ugsessed upon the property within the present limits of the city of
Norfolk during the year for which such assessment shall be levied,
and the same charges shall be made upon those property owners who
shall connect their property with the said water main as shall be
made upon other property owners in the city of Norfolk, and the
cost of laying such water main may be paid by the city as may be
ordered by the councils, on the recommendation of the local board of
improvement of the said ward, in whole or in part, out of the tax
collected for general purposes from such ward, and any balance not
80 paid shall be paid from the proceeds of bonds to be issued by the
city, in a¢écordance with section twelve of this act.

§ 6. All taxes levied and collected upon persons and property
within the limits hereby added to the city of Norfolk, excepting
water tax and license taxes, shall be collected by the city collector,
who shall, after deducting his fees, pay the same into the treasury
of the city, to be set apart as a special fund for the improvement,
protection of schools, police and every other expenditure of the said
ward from which it 1s collected, to be appropriated by the councils
on the recommendation of a local board of improvement in the said
ward, the said board being at present composed of the five residents
of said ward elected by the legally qualified voters of said ward on
the fourth Thursday in May, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, who
shall] hold office for the term of two years from and after the first
day of July succeeding their election and until their successors are
elected and qualified; and the said board thereafter to be composed
of five residents of said ward, to be elected by the legally qualified
voters of said ward on the fourth Thursday in May, eighteen hun-
dred and ninety-six, to hold office for the term of two years from the
first day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and until their
successors are elected and qualified, and biennially thereafter; and
all bills for money spent within said ward shall be certified by the
said local board of improvement before being ordered to be paid by
the councils. All works of internal improvement within the newly
annexed territory shall be under the supervision of the board of street,
sewer and drain commissioners, as provided by law within the pres-
ent limits of the city. It shall not be lawful for the councils, dur-
ing the before mentioned period of fifteen years from the twenty-
second day of February, eighteen hundred and ninety, to expend
more money in the ward hereby added to the city of Norfolk than
shall be collected during the year, as hereinbefore provided, from
said ward, unless the same be an unexpended balance collected dur-
ing some previous year, except as provided by section five.

§ 12. It shall not be lawful for the city of Norfolk to issue bonds
predicated upon or taking into account the assessed value of real
and personal property embraced within the newly acquired territory
until the expiration of fifteen years from the twenty-second day of
February, eighteen hundred and ninety, unless the same shall be
issued by the city to pay for the purchase of property to be used for
public free school purposes in said ward, or for the erection or repair
or enlarging of public free school buildings in said ward, in accord-
ance with section five of this act, or for any local improvementsof a
permanent character made in accordance with said section five, in
which case bonds shall be issued by the councils of the city of Nor-
folk for the amounts necessary to pay for such public free school
property, or such erection, enlarging or repairing of public free
school buildings in said ward and other local improvements as afore-
said; provided the amount appropriated for such public free school
purposes shall not exceed the sum of fifteen thousand dollars in any
one calendar year, beginning with the first day of January; and the
proceeds of said bonds shall be expended in the manner provided
by section six of this act for the expenditure of the taxes collected for
general purposes. An account of bonds issued under this section
shall be kept by the board of sinking fund commissioners of said
city and also by the city treasurer. The amount necessary to pay
the interest on such bonds shall be annually reserved by the city
treasurer out of the taxes collected by the said city from the said
ward to pay the interest on the said bond as it becomes due and
payable.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.