Chap. 381.—An ACT to provide that in addition to the present indebtedness of the
city of Newport News, and to the certificate of debt or bonds in which the
eouncil is now authorized by law to issue, the common council of suid city shall
be empowered to cause to be issued for and in the name of the said city other
certificate of debt or bonds.

Approved February 17, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That, in addition
to the present indebtedness of the city of Newport News and the certifi-
cates of debt or bonds which the council of the said city is otherwise
authorized by law to issue, the common council of the said city may, by
a three-fourths vote of all its members, in the name and for the use of
the said city, cause to be issued certificates of debt or bonds (the form
of which shall be prescribed by the council) in the amount of forty
thousand dollars, payable in United States currency, bearing a rate of
interest not exceeding six per centum per annum, and payable in the
discretion of the council in not less than ten nor more than thirty years
from their date.

The said council is hereby authorized to expend the amount realized
from the sale of the said bonds in constructing and building bridges or
tunnels across, over, or under the tracks and roadbed of the Chesapeake
and Ohio railway company at Twenty-fifth, Twenty-eighth, and Thirty-
fourth streets.

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