Chap. 321.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to extend
and define the boundaries of the city of Lynchburg, approved December 19,
1870, so as to further extend the boundaries of the said city, provided it
assume a just proportion of the bonded debt of Campbell county; and to
provide for the ascertainment, by the Circuit Court of the said city, or of
the said county, of the amount of the bonded debt of the said county which
the said city should assume.

Approved February 14, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the act
entitled an act to extend and define the boundaries of the city of Lynch-
burg, approved December nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the bound-
aries of the city of Ly nehburg shall be extended and defined as follows:
Beginning at the middle of Blackwater creck where the present bound-
ary line of said city crosses the said creek; thence up the middle of
said creck as it meanders to the western line of Lexington turnpike;
thence along the western line of said turnpike to the northwestern line
of Mulberry street; thence along the northwestern line of said street
to the southwestern line of Bedford avenue; thence along the south-

western line of Bedford avenue to the northwestern line of Sporea street
as shown on the city map, but called Poplar street on the Rivermont
map; thence along the northwestern line of the last named strect to
the southwestern line of Rivermont avenue; thence along the south-
western line of Rivermont. avenue to the northern line of Glasgow
avenue; thence with the northern line of Glasgow avenue and a straight
line to James river; thence down the southern bank of James river to
the present boundary line of said city at or near the southern end of
the bridge of the southern railway across James river (sometimes called
Orange bridge); thence with the present boundary line of said city, as
established and defined by the aforesaid act of December nineteenth,
eighteen hundred and seventy, across said river to the northern bank of
the same, and so on back to the beginning.

And the territory so taken into the limits of said city shall be, and
the same is hereby, made, with the inhabitants thereof, a part of the
said city of Lynchburg, subject to the same laws, rules, reculations,
ordinances, and government, as if they had been included within the
heretofore limits of said city, except that the council of said city shall
pass no ordinance in respect to fishing in James river north of the
center thereof.

£2. The plat of said city, as its limits and boundaries are defined in
the first section of this act, shall be certified by the president and clerk
of the council to the clerk of the corporation court for the city of Lynch-
burg, and together with said certificate shall be by him recorded in the
current deed book of his office, and an authenticated copv thereof shall
he evidence in all the courts of this commonwealth whensoever the
boundarv line of said city may be drawn in question.

§ 3. No taxes of any kind whatever for the year nineteen hundred
shall be levied or collected by the authorities of the city of Lynchburg
from the persons or property within the limits hereby added to said city.
$4. The county levy or any levy for the subdivisions of the county

of ‘Campbell for the year nineteen hundred, within the limits added by
this act to the city of Lynchburg shall be collected for said vear by the
proper authorities of said county, but on and after the first dav of
January, nineteen hundred and one, no levy or assessment shall be made
by said county upon the inhabitants and property aforesaid.

<5. It shall be lawful for the sheritf or other otlicers of the county of
Campbell to collect and make distress for any public dues or officer’s
fees which shall remain unpaid by the inhabitants embraced within the
extended limits of said city at the time when this act shall commence and
be in force, and thev shall respectively be accountable for the same in
like manner as if this act had never passed.

$6. All taxes levied and collected upon the persons and property
within the limits hereby added to the city of Lynchburg, shall, for a
period of three years from first of February, nineteen hundred and one,
be apphed to the improvement of the district so annexed, after deduct-
ing from such revenue the pro rata cost of fire and police protection
therein, also the amount necessary for the support and maintenance of
its poor and educational purposes, and the expenses incident thereto as
required by the laws of this state.

<7. The council of the city of Iuynchburg, shall, prior to the next
election for members of the city council, provide by ordinance, for the
representation in its body at the next election of the inhabitants of the
territory embraced in said extension.

<8. The circuit court of the city of Lynchburg, or of the county of
Canaball, or the judge of either in vacation, shall, upon the petition of
either the said city, or the said county, proceed to ascertain and fix bv
a proper decree, the amount of the bonded debt of the said county which
should be assumed by the said city on account of the territory taken
from the said county by this act, which amount shall bear the same
proportion to the whole bonded debt of the said county, that the present
assessed value of the real and personal property taken from the said
county by this act, including railroads and street railways, bears to the
present assessed value of the whole real and personal property now
assessed for taxation in said county; and the foregoing sections of this
act shall not become effective until, and unless the council of the said
city shall, by a proper ordinance or resolution, assume on behalf of said
city, the pavment of the amount to be assumed by it as ascertained and
fixed as herein provided.

§ 9. This act shall be in force from its passage.