Chap. 48.—An ACT to authorize the common council of the city of Roanoke to
issue bonds or certificates of debt to the amount of $25,000 for the purpose of
purchasing, improving, and maintaining a public park and cemetery in the
city of Roanoke.

Approved December 23, 1901.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the com-
mon council for the city of Roanoke may cause to be issued certificates of
debt or bonds to the amount of twenty-five thousand ($25,000) dollars,
to be known as park and cemetery bonds, in addition to the amount of
bonds allowed to be issued under section ninety-nine of the charter of
said city, which bonds shall be sold by said city at not less than par, the
proceeds thereof to be used by said city for the purpose of purchasing.
improving, and maintaining a public park and cemetery for the city of
Roanoke. Said bonds shall be issued in denominations of twenty-five dol-
lars, fifty dollars, and one hundred dollars each, and shall bear interest
at the rate of four per centum per annum, and shall not be irredeemable
for a period greater than thirty-four years. The said bonds shall be exe-
cuted in the same manner as other bonds and contracts in said city are
executed: provided, that the said council shall not issue said bonds or
certificates unless and until it is authorized so to do by a majority vote of
the freehold voters of the city of Roanoke voting on the question.

2. Be it further enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That for
the purpose of ascertaining the sense of the frechold voters of the city of
Roanoke upon the question of issuing the aforesaid bonds, there shall be
an election held in the said city within sixty days from the time this act
becomes a law, at which election all frechold voters in said city shall have
the right to vote; and if a majority of those voting vote in favor of issu-
ing said bonds, the council shall issue the same in accordance with the
provisions of this act. Said election shall be ordered to be held by the
council within the time prescribed by this act, and shall be held as fol-
lows:

(1) The sergeant of said city and the commissioners of election herc-
inafter named are hereby directed to open the polls at the various voting
places of the city on the day named by the resolution of the council order-
ing said election, and take the sense of the freehold voters of said city for
or against the issuing of said bonds. ;

(2) The mayor of said city is required to give twenty days’ notice of
said election, setting forth the time and places thereof, by posting said
notice at some public place in each ward of said city, and by publishing
the same in some newspaper published in the city of Roanoke for the
same period of time.

(3) The judges of election in the several wards of said city are hereb)
appointed commissioners to conduct said election, and in case of. the
failure of any one or more of them to act, then the place or places of such
shall be filled in the manner provided by law in the case of regular elee-
tions. The said election shall be condueted in the manner prescribed bv
the State law for the conduct of elections when there are no candidate:
nominated by any political party. Ballots for the issuing of said bond:
hall read, ‘For issuing park and cemetery bonds,” and ballots agains!
ssuing said bonds shall read, “Against issuing park and cemetery bonds.’

(4). The commissioners of election shall, immediately after closing the
olls, count the ballots deposited, and shall, within two days thereafter
nake a written return of the result of said election to the president of!
ouncil of said city, specifying the number of votes cast for and the num.
er of votes cast against the issuing of said bonds, and the president of
ouncil shall, at the next regular meeting of said council, order said re
urns to be spread upon the records of said council. And the commission:
rs of election shall furthermore seal up in separate packages the ballots
or and against the issuing of said bonds, and within two days from the
‘losing of said polls transmit the same to the clerk of the council, to be
cept by him among the archives of the city; and said packages shall no
opened during the space of twelve months thereafter without the con.
ent of the president of council, or the council in regular session.

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