Chap. 177.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-section 7 of section 7 of chapter 6
of an act entitled “an act to consolidate in one act all acts creating and amend-
ing the charter of the city of Lynchburg, and to create a new charter for said
city,” approved January 29, 1896, so as to provide for the acquisition and main-
tenance of a new water supply for said city.

Approved April 24, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sub-section
seven of section seven of chapter six of an act entitled an act to con-
solidate in one act all acts creating and amending the charter of the city
of Lynchburg, and to create a new charter for said city, approved Jan-
uary twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 7. To establish or enlarge water works or gas works within or with-
out said city; to contract with the owners of land for the use or purchase
thereof, or to have the same condemned for the location or enlargement
of said works, or the pipes and fixtures thereof, and to acquire by pur-
chase or condemn such quantity of the water-shed lands adjacent to the
intake or source of supply, as in the judgment of the said council may be
necessary to insure a sufficient supply of water for said city, and to pro-
tect the same from pollution; to prevent the throwing of filth or offen-
sive matter in James river within six miles of the city limits, and to
protect said water supply, works, pipes, reservoirs, and fixtures, whether
within or without the city, against injury and pollution, by appropriate
ordinances and penalties, to be enforced, as*are the other ordinances of
said city.

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