Chap. 99.—An ACT to authorize the council of the town of Edinburg to issue
bonds and to borrow money for the purpose of establishing a system of
water works for said town, and for other purposes.

Approved March 8, 1906.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That it shall be
lawful for the council of the town of Edinburg, in ‘the county of Shenan-
doah, State of Virginia, to issue bonds of the ‘said town, not to exceed in
the aggregate the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, in order to estab-
lish a system of water-works in said town, and meet all expenses con-
nected therewith; to contract or agree with the owners of any land for the
use or purchase of lands for the purposes thereof, or to have the same
condemned according to law, within or without the limits of the said
town, for the location or extension and enlargement of their said works,
the pipes connected therewith, or any appurtenances or fixtures thereof,
and shall have power to protect from injury, by ordinances prescribing
adequate penalties, the works, pipes, fixtures and land, or anything con-
nected therewith, as may be determined by council of said town of
Edinburg.

2. The bonds so issued shall be thirty-year coupon bonds, of the de-
nomination of one hundred and five hundred dollars each, numbered
and registered or payable to bearer, signed by the mayor and attested by
the secretary of said town, and shall bear interest at a rate not exceeding
six per centum per annum, payable annually, and shall be redeemable at
anv time after the expiration of twenty years, at the option of the said
town: the bonds to be redeemed to be designated by lot.

The bonds issued under this act shall not be sold for less than par.

4. That the council of said town shall have the right to issue bonds, as
aforesaid, with the consent of the peonle expressed by a majority vote of
the legally qualified voters of the said corporation, ascertained by a special
election to be held in such manner as the said council shall prescribe after
the passage of this act, such special election to be governed and regulated
by the general laws regulating special elections. The result of said elec-
tion shall be spread upon the minutes of the council of the town of Edin-
burg, and shall constitute a basis for the issuance of the said bonds of the
said town.

5. An emergency existing that the election be held for the purposes set
forth in this bill, as soon as practicable, this act shall take effect from its
passage as an emergency ‘act.