Chap. 37.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act approved Januar!
13, 1898, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act entitle
“an act to extend the boundaries of the city of Norfolk,” approved Februar
22, 1890, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 3, 1896, en
titled 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 Norfolk, and t
amend and re-enact sections 5, 6, and 12 of said act as amended by an act ap
proved 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 December 21, 1901.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section fiv
of an act approved January thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety
eight, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section five of an act en
titled “an act to extend the boundaries of the city of Norfolk,” approve
February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety, as amended and re-
nacted by an act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-
1x, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section two of an act approved
‘february twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled an act to
xtend the boundaries of the city of Norfolk, and to amend and re-enact
ections five, six, and twelve of said act, as amended by an act approved
february twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, entitled an act to
mend and re-enact sections five, six, and twelve of an act entitled an
ict to extend the boundaries of the city of Norfolk, approved February
wenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety, be amended and re-enacted
0 as to read as follows:

§ 5. The city shall assess the same license taxes for doing business of
ill 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 land 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, eigh-
teen 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 there-
for, nor shall they have to pay an ad valorem tax to the city exceeding the
rate of one dollar and seventy cents on the one hundred dollars of assessed
valuation, 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 elec-
tion in some newspaper published in the city of Norfolk, or unless the
city shall, upon the recommendation of the local board of improvement
of the said ward, acquire property, real or personal, for public free school
purposes in said ward, or shall erect a public free school building or build-
ings, or shall enlarge or repair existing public free school buildings in said
ward, in which event the cost thereof, unless the school tax, as provided
m 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 accord-
ance with section twelve of this act, or unless the city shall, either upon
petition of the majority of the property owners on any street in the newly-
acquired territory, approved by the local board of improvement, or upon
the recommendation of the said local board of improvement, after an
election heretofore held as provided in the act of which this is an amend-
ment, or hereafter held for that purpose as herein above 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 system of sewerage or other improvement 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 local
board of improvement, be assessed against the owners of real property
which is benefited by such improvements, as is at present provided by
law in said city, any part. of the cost of the same that the city 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 Improvement
be acquired upon the recommendation of said local board of improve-
ment after an election as aforesaid, the whole of the cost thereof shall be
paid by the city from the proceeds of the sale of bonds to be issued in
accordance with section twelve of this act. And it having been deter-
mined by a majority of the votes cast at a special election held in said
ward on the fourteenth day of November, nineteen hundred and one, that
for the purpose of paying interest on bonds to be issued under section
twelve of this act to pay for certain improvements within said ward, the
ad valorem tax to the city on the real and personal property within the
said ward shall be one dollar and seventy cents on the one hundred dol-
lars of assessed valuation, the city councils are hereby authorized and
directed to take the necessary steps to make the said vote effective, and t:
make and acquire the said improvements in accordance with the recom.
mendation of the said local board of improvement, and to issue the bond:
necessary to carry out the purposes aforesaid: provided, that the bond:
so to be issued shall not exceed in principal the sum of four hundred an
eighty thousand dollars. The city shall, upon a petition of a majority o!
the property owners on any street in the newly-acquired territory, exten
a water main and supply water to the citizens along its line: then in add:
tion to the ad valorem tax for general and other purposes, payable to th
city of Norfolk aforesaid, the same rate of special water tax shall b
assessed on the real and personal property along the line of such strect a
may be assessed upon the property within the present limits of the city o
Norfolk during the year for which such assessment shall be levied, an
the same charges shall be made upon those property owners who shal
connect their property with the said water main as shall be made upoa
other property in the city of Norfolk, and the cost of laying such wate
main may be paid by the city, as may be ordered by the councils on th
recommendation of the local board of improvement of the said ward. i
whole or part, out of the tax collected for general purposes from sue
ward, and any halance not so paid shall be paid from the proceeds o
bonds to be issued by the city in accordance with section twelve of this ac
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.