Chap. 61.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act entitled “An act te
extend the boundaries of the city of Norfolk’? approved February 22, 1800, a>
amended and re-enacted by an act approved Mareh 3, 1896, entitled an act te
amend wud re-enact section 2oof an act approved February 22. 1800. entitled * An
vet toextend the boundaries of the citw of Norfolk, and to amend and re-enact
sections 9, 6, and J2 of said: act. as amended by an act approved February 12.
Ise2y entitled aniaet to amend and re-enact: sections 5, 6, and 12 of an act: en-
titled ano aet to extend the boundaries of the city of Norfolk, approved Feb-
ruary 22, Psi”

Approved January 13, Dsus,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section five
of an act entitled ‘An act to extend the boundaries of the eity of Nor-
folk? approved February twe ntv-seeond, eighteen hundred and ninety,
as amended and re-cnacted Twoan act approved) March third, eighteen
hundred and ninety-six, entitled an act to amend and re-enact seetion
two of anact approved February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and
ninety, entitled an act to extend the boundaries of the city of Norfolk,
Cand to amend and re-enact sections five. six, and twelve of said act, as
amended by an act approved February twelfth, eighteen hundred) and
Inetyv-two, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections five, six, and
twelve of an act entitled aniact 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:

SO. The city shall assess the same license taxes for domg business of
all kinds within the ne avly 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 land Iving therein
shall not be liable on their real and personal property within the said
ward for the period of fifteen vears from: the twenty-second dav of Feb-
ruary, cighteen 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 ¢ itv
exceeding the rate of one dollar and twe nty cents on the one hundred
dollars of assessed) valuation, unless for the purpose of paving interest
on bonds which may be issued under section twelve of this act, an in-
crease 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 ainerease 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 citv councils, upon the recommendation of the local board of improve-
ment 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, or unless the city shall, apon the recommendation of the local
hoard of improvement of said ward, acquire otherwise than by gift or
voluntary grant or devise, property, real or personal, for public free schoo]
purposes in said ward, or shall ereet a public free school buildine or
buildings. or shall enlarge or repair existing public free schoo) buildings
in said ward, in which event the cost thereof. unless the school tax as
provided in section six of this act shall be sufhcient for that purpose.
shall he paid fyom, the proceeds of the sale of borulsitonbe issued by the
city in accordance with section twelve of this act, or unless the city shall.
either upon petition of a majority of the property owners on any street
in the newly acquired territory, approved by the local board of improve-
ment, or upon the recommendation of the said local board of improve-
ment, after an election heretofore held as provided in the act of which
this is an amendment, or hereafter held for that purpose as hereinabove
provided, open, lay off, grade, gutter, curb, or pave, sewer, drain, or
otherwise improve such streets, or make any other improvement of a
permanent character, or acquire any svstem of sewerage or other im-
provement already made, in which case the cost thereof shall, if the
work be done upon a petition of a majority of the property owners as
aforesaid, approved by said Jocal beard of improvement, be assessed
against the owners of real property which is benefited by such improve-
ents, as is at present provided by law in said city, any part of the cost
of the same that the citv may agree to pay to be paid, as is hereinafter
provided for by section twelve of this act, or, if the work be done or
system of sewerage or other inmprovement be acquired upon the recom-
mendation of the said local board of improvement after an election as
uforesald, the whole of the cost thereof shall be paid by the eity from
the proceeds of the sale of bonds to be issued in aecordance with section
twelve of this act. And it having been determined by a majority of the
votes cast at a special election held in said ward on the twenty-first dav
of October, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, that for the purpose of
paving interest on bonds to be issued under section twelve of this act to
pay for certain noprovements within said ward, the ad valorem tax to
the city on the real and personal property with the said ward shall be
one dollar and twenty cents on the one hundred dollars of assessed
valuation, the city councils are hereby authorized and directed to take the
necessarv steps to make the said vote effective and to aequire the system
of sewerage already ina part of said ward and make the other improve-
ments in accordance with the recommendation of the said local board of
improvement, and to issue the bonds necessary to carry out the purposes
aforesaid: provided, that the bonds so to be issued shall not exeeed in
principal the sum of one hundred and eighty thousand dollars. 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 supply
water to the citizens along its line; then in addition to the ad valorem
tax for general and other purposes, pavable to the city of Norfolk afore-
said, the same rate of special water tax shall be assessed on the real and
personal property along the line of such street as may be assessed upon
the property within the present limits of the citv of Norfolk during the
vear for which such assessment shall be levied, and the same charges
shall be made upon those property owners who shall connect their prop-
erty with the said water main as shall be made upon other property
owners in the city of Norfolk, and the cost of laving such water maiu
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 so paid’ shall be paid from the proceeds o!
bonds to be issued by the city in accordance with section twelve of this act.
2, This act shall be in force from its passage.