Chap. 182.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 14,
1900, and entitled ‘‘an act to amend and re-enact an act, approved March 1,
1892, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act entitled
an act to amend the charter and extend and define the boundaries of the
city of Norfolk, approved April 6, 1887, as amended by an act entitled an
act to amend and re-enact sections 5, 6, and 13 of an act to amend the char-
ter and extend and define the boundaries of the city, approved April 6, 1887,
approved March 3, 1890.”

Approved February 15, 1901.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act
ipproved February fourteen, nineteen hundred, and entitled “an act to
mend and re-enact an act approved March one, eighteen hundred and
\inety-two, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section five of an act
ntitled an act to amend the charter and extend and define the boundaries
if the city of Norfolk, approved April six, eighteen hundred and eighty-
even, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections
ive, six and thirteen of an act to amend the charter and extend and define
he boundaries of the city, approved April six. eighteen hundred and
‘ighty-seven, approved March three, eighteen hundred and ninety,” be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

85. The inhabitants of the territory hereby annexed and the owners
of the lands lying therein, shall not be liable on their real and personal
property within the said district for the period of fifteen years from
the first day of July, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, for any part
of the present debt of the city of Norfolk, nor for the interest thereon,
nor shall any tax be levied therefor, nor ‘shall they have to pay an ad
valorem tax to the city exceeding the rate of one dollar and sixty cents
on the one hundred dollars of assessed value, approved by the majority
votes cast in the election held in said ward on the Tuesday after the
first Monday in November, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, unless
an increase over the said rate of taxation be ordered by a majority of
the votes cast in any election in said ward, which said increase and the
amount thereof may be submitted to the vote of the people at any regular
election by the councils upon the recommendation of the local board of
improvement, thirty days’ notice thereof being published prior to such
election. If the councils of the said city, on recommendation of the
local board of improvement, open, lay off, grade, gutter, curb or pave,
sewer, drain or otherwise improve streets, or make any other local im-
provement of a permanent character in said ward, the costs or a portion
thereof may be assessed against real estate benefited by such improve-
ment in accordance with the general law of the state for such cases
made and provided, and any part of the costs of the same that the city
may pay shall be paid as hereinafter provided by section thirteen of this
act (contained in act approved March third, eighteen hundred and
ninety). The city shall, upon the petition of a majority of the property
owners on any street in the newly-acquired territory, extend a water main
and supply water to the citizens along its line; and the city shall, upon
the petition of the majority of the owners of the property on any street
in the newly-acquired territory, lying between two or more cross streets,
extend a water main and supply water to the citizens along the line of
said street between the said two or more cross streets: provided, the said
property lying on the said street between the said two or more cross streets
immediately adjoining a street upon which a water main has been at the
time of the said petition already extended; then, in addition to the ad
valorem tax for general purposes, payable to the city of Norfolk as afore-
said, the same rate of special water tax shall be assessed on the real and
personal property along the line of such street whenever a water main
shall have been extended as may be assessed upon the property within the
present limits of the city of Norfolk during the year for which such
assessment shall be levied, and the same charges shall be made upon those
property owners who shall connect their property with the said water
main as shall be made upon other property owners in the city of Norfolk,
and the cost of laying such water main may be paid by the city, as may
be ordered by the councils on the recommendation of the local board of
improvement of the ward in which such water main may be laid, in whole
or in part, out of the tax collected for general purposes from such ward;
and any balance not so paid shall be paid from the proceeds of bonds
to be issued by the city in accordance with section thirteen of an act
approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety, to amend the char-
ter and to extend and define the boundaries of the city of Norfolk, and
except. further, that the citv shall assess the same licenses for doing
bnsiness of all kinds within the newly-acquired territory as shall be
assessed within the present limits of the city.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.