Chap. 251.—An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of
Norfolk, Virginia, to improve any street, avenue, road or sidewalk within
the limits of any piece or plot of land that has or may hereafter be plotted
and laid off into lots, streets, avenues, roads and sidewalks by plot thereof,
duly recorded in the clerk’s office of the county court of said county, and to
levy a tax for the purpose of making such improvements aguinst the lots
abutting on the streets, avenues, roads and sidewalks to be so improved.

Approved February 16, 1901.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the board
of supervisors of the county of Norfolk, Virginia, be, and they are, hereby
authorized and empowered, whenever they may be requested so to do by
the owners of a majority of the lots on any street, avenue, road or side-
walk comprised within the limits of any piece or plot of land that has
been or may hereafter be plotted and laid off into lots, streets. avenues,
roads, and sidewalks by a plot thereof, duly recorded in the clerk's olfice
of the county court of the said county, to improve and pave said streets,
avenues, roads, and sidewalks.

2. Upon the application of the owners of a majority of the lots abut-
ting upon any such streets, avenues, roads or sidewalks, to improve and
pave the same, of which application ten days’ notice shall be given the
owners or tenants of the freehold of the lots thereby to be affected, who
have not united in said petition, it shall be the duty of the said board
of supervisors, having first given twenty days’ notice of its intention so
to do to all the owners of the lots abutting on the streets, avenues, roads,
and sidewalks so to be improved, by service of said notice on the said
owners or tenants of the frechold of said lots, to apply to the county
court-of the said county to appoint five disinterested frecholders, any
three of whom may act, to ascertain and report what portion of the whole
costs of said improvement shall be borne by the several owners of the

said lots. The said freeholders, or any three of them, shall thereafter,
cn a day named in the order appointing them, view the said premises
where the said improvements are to be made, and make report to the
said county court of the portion of the whole costs of such improvement
te be horne by the several owners of the said lots abutting thereon: pro-
vided, that the entire cost thereof shall be apportioned among and borne
by the owners of the lots abutting thereon, and no part thereof out of the
general county levies or taxes. The report of said frecholders, being
confirmed, shall be recorded by the said court, and thereupon the amount
assessed ayainst each lot owner as his proportion of the costs of the said
improvements shall be a charge and lien upon the streets, avenues, roads
or sidewalks so improved. And it shall be the duty of the said board
of supervisors to cause bills of assessment to be made out against the
said lot owners in accordance with said report, and deliver the same to
the county treasurer, to be collected as other county levies and taxes are
collected: provided, however, that nothing in this act contained shall be
construed as affecting the property of any owner, or as permitting an as-
sessment to be made against any owner of property, or any of his prop-
erty, which is not laid off into streets and lots for purposes of sale accord-
ing to, and included within the limits of, a plat made by the owner and
duly recorded in the clerk's office of the county court of Norfolk county,
even though his property, or a part thereof, may abut upon some street
laid off, in whole or in part, upon contiguous property.

3. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby re-
pealed.

4. This act shall be in force from and after its passage.