Chap. 220.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4, 8, 12, and 17 of an act
entitled an act to create Northside district, in Brookland magisterial dis-
trict, in the county of Henrico, and to provide for lighting and sewerage
in said northside district, and for making and maintaining other improve-
ments of a public nature therein, approved February 10, 1898.

Approved January 30, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sections
four, eight, twelve, and seventeen of an act entitled an act to create
Northside district in Brookland magisterial district, in the county of
Henrico, and to provide for lighting and sewerage in said Northside
district, and for making and maintaining other improvements of a pub-
lic nature therein, approved February tenth, eighteen hundred and
ninety-eight, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

S 4. There shall be, and is hereby, established a board of improvement
commissioners for said Northside district, to consist of five members,
whose duty it shall be to provide for lighting, sewerage, streets, and
roads of said district; to determine what other improvements of a public
nature shall be made in said Northside district, and to ascertain and
assess a tax upon the owners of real estate in said district to pay for said
lighting, sewerage, streets, and roads, and other improvements so that
in no event shall such tax, in any one year exceed six-tenths of one per
centum of the assessed value of the real estate therein, as ascertained by
the assessment thereof for the purposes of taxation by the state. The
real estate located within said Northside district is hereby exempted from
one-half of the county levy, and the real estate in said district shall be
exempt from the payment of any special road tax which may hereafter
be levied by said county: provided, that the said district shall, at its
own expense, keep its streets and roads in order.

The board of supervisors of the county of Henrico shall place, or cause
to be placed, with the treasurer of the county of Henrico, to the credit
of said commissioners, so much of the general road tax or levy, as shall
be collected on the real estate located within said Northside district. It
shall also be the duty of the said commissioners to fix plans and speci-
fications for the proper and economical execution of all improvements
hereinbefore provided, and, after such advertisement as to them may
seem advisable, to let the contract to the lowest bidder, either at public
outcry, or by sealed proposals, as to them may seem best, for such work
of improvement, taking from the contractor bond, payable to the said
board of improvement commissioners in double penalty of the price
agreed to be paid for such work, and with approved personal security,
conditioned for the faithful performance of the work in accordance with
the plans and specifications fixed by said commissioners.

<8. The said board of improvement commissioners shall he authorized
to make such allowances to the public ofticers charged with any duty
under this act as they deem reasonable and just, to be paid on the
warrant of said board out of the money to the credit of Northside dis-
trict, but in no case shall such allowance exceed the compensation allowed
by law for similar services performed for the county: provided, however,
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that no compensation shall be allowed the improvement commissioners
acting under this law, but they shall be allowed all necessary expenses
incurred in the discharge of their duties, to be paid on the warrant of
said board.

$12. The board of improvement commissioners shall make no con-
tract for district improvements which shall pledge the revenues to be
derived under this act, for a period exceeding five years.

$17. The members of the said board of improvement commissioners
for the first term to be J. M. Fourqurean, A. F. Mosby, W. H. Dunn,
C. W. Wingfield, and C. W. Vaughan, who are to hold office until the
first day of July, nineteen hundred and three, or until their successors
have qualified; their successors to he residents of said district and owners
of real estate therein, and to be elected by the qualified voters residing
in said district at the spring election in nineteen hundred and three, and
at the spring election held every fourth year thereafter; the term of office
of the commissioners hereafter to be elected to be four years.

For the purpose of hereafter electing the commissioners on said board
the registrar for Chestnut hill precinct, in said district, shall provide a
separate poll-book, into which he shall copy, five davs before the day
of election, the name of every qualified voter residing in said district at
that time; the said registrar shall also provide a separate ballot-box,
into which shall be deposited the ballots, with the names of the com-
missioners printed or written thereon; the ballots used under this section
shall be furnished by the board of improvement commissioners for said
district, and the candidates for said office shall notify the chairman of
said board of their candidacy, in writing, ten days before the day of
election. In all other respects as to the manner of voting and the count-
ing of the ballots, said election shall be held in accordance with the laws
governing elections for the purpose of electing county and municipal
officers, save that the ballots shall be sealed and returned, after counted,
to the said board of commissioners with the proper certificate, who shall
announce the successful candidates.

All expenses incurred under this section shall be allowed by said com-
missioners as to them may seem proper, which shall be paid upon the
warrant of said board.