Chap. 540.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 14 of an act to create North-
side 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 public nature therein, approved Feb-
ruary 10, 1898.

Approved April 2, 1902.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
fourteen of an act entitled an act to create Northside district, in Brook-
land 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 public nature therein, approved
February tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, be amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows:

$14. Said board of improvement commissioners appointed under
this act shall have power to employ surveyors, architects, engineers, me-
chanics, laborers, or other agents, and to agree with them as to their com-
pensation. And said commissioners, or their agents, under their direc-
tion, shall have the power to enter upon any real estate located in said
Northside district for the purpose of making the improvements contem-
plated by this act, and all damages sustained by any owner of such real
estate shall be allowed and paid by said board of improvement commis-
sioners out of any money to the credit of said district; but if any person
to whom damages are so allowed is dissatisfied with such allowance, he
may take an appeal to the county court of Henrico county, and have such
damages determined by said court, and the judgment of said court shall
be final and conclusive of the amount of such damages. The said board
of improvement commissioners shall also have the right to contribute,
out of any money to the credit of said district, to the salary of such
policeman or policemen, that they may be appointed by the judge of
Henrico county court for said district.

The said board of improvement commissioners shall have the power
to make all necessary rules and by-laws, not inconsistent with this act and
the laws of this State, pertaining to the government and use of the sewers
in said district, and shall have the power to compel all persons who have
built, or who hereafter build, in said district to connect all down-spouts,
closets, and sinks in or about the building or buildings erected upon his
or her lot or lots with the sewer next adjacent to said lot or lots, if there
be a sewer; and said board of improvement commissioners shall have the
power to assess the owner of any lot on which a building is erected, or to
which said building is appurtenant, with a tax, not to exceed thirty-
seven dollars and fifty cents for each lot, for the privilege of entering
said sewer, said tax to be recoverable by all the remedies at law or in
equity, and also to be a prior lien upon said lot and improvements
thereon: provided, suit is instituted to enforce said lien within twelve
months from the time connection with the sewer is made, the word lot
in this act being construed as meaning a frontage of thirty fect.

If any person, after such building is completed and after being noti-
fied by said board of improvement commissioners, fail for ten days to
make such connections with the sewer as above set forth, he shall be sub-
ject, in the discretion of said board, to a fine of one dollar for each day
thereafter his failure to do so continues; and if sny person shall enter one
of said sewers without first obtaining permission in writing from said
hoard of improvement commissioners, he shall be subject to a fine not
exceeding twenty dollars, which shall be in addition to the tax charged
for entering said sewer; the fines in either case to be recoverable on com-
plaint made to a justice of the peace.

The said board of improvement commissioners shall have the right to
institute suits in the name of said board to recover any and all taxes
assessed under this section, and to prosecute before a justice of the peace
all persons violating this act for the recovery of any and all fines imposed
under this section ; and any and all taxes assessed under this section, when
paid or so recovered, and any and all fines when so recovered shall be
paid to and received by the treasurer of Henrico county, and be placed by
ann to the eredit of said district.

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