Chap. 292.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 6 and 12 of an act enti-
tled an act to annex additional territory to the city of Norfolk, and pre-
vide for the government of said annexed territory, approved March 14,
1902.

Approved March 16, 1910.

1. Be it eriacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sections
six and twelve of an act entitled an act to annex additional territory to
the city of Norfolk, and to provide for the government of said annexed
territory, approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred and two, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

86. All taxes levied and collected from persons and property within
the limits hereby added to the city of Norfolk, excepting water tax and
license taxes, shall be collected by the city collector, who shall, after de-
ducting his fees, pay the same into the treasury of the city to be set
apart as a special fund for the improvement, protection, school, police
and every other expenditure of said ward from which it is collected, t
be appropriated by the city council on the recommendation of a loca’
board of improvement in said ward, which shall be composed of nine
residents of said ward, and hereinafter provided for. A local board o:
improvement shall be elected by the legally qualified voters of said wart
on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November, nineteen hundrec
and leven, and biennially thereafter, to hold office for the term of two
years from and after the first day of January next succeeding their elec-
tion, and until successors are elected and qualified. The members of
the local board of improvement of said ward in office at this time shall
continue in office until the first day of January, nineteen hundred and
twelve, or until their successors are elected and qualified. All bills for
money spent within said ward shall be certified by the said local board of
improvements before being ordered paid by the city council. It shall
not be lawful for the city council, during the beforementioned period
of fifteen years, to expend more money in the ward added to the city of
Norfolk by the said act than shall be collected during the year, as here-
inbefore provided, from said ward, unless the same be an unexpended
balance collected during some previous year, except as providd by sec-
tion five.

§12. It shall not be lawful for the city of Norfolk to issue bonds predi-
cated upon or taking into account the assessed value of the property
embraced within the territory acquired under this act until the four-
teenth day of March, nineteen hundred and seventeen, unless the same
shall be issued by the city to pay for the purchase of property to be used
for public free school purposes in said ward, or for the erection, repair
or enlarging of public free school buildings in said ward, or for any
local improvement of a permanent character, or for a fair proportion
of the cost of any public building which may be erected in said city of
Norfolk, such proportion to be based upon the assessed value of the
property in said ward as compared with the assessed value of the prop-
erty in the other wards of said city; in which case bonds shall be issued
by the city council of the city of Norfolk, upon the recommendation of
the local board of improvement of said ward, for the amounts necessary
to pay for such public free school property, or such erection, enlarging
or repairing of public free school buildings in said ward, and other
local improvements as aforesaid, provided the amount appropriated for
such public free school purposes shall not exceed the sum of twenty-five
thousand dollars in any one calendar year, beginning with the first day
of January; and the proceeds of said bonds shall be expended in the
manner provided by section six of said act for expenditure of the taxes
eollected for general purposes. An account of bonds issued under this
section shall be kept by the board of sinking fund commissioners of
said city, and also by city treasurer. The amount necessary to pay the
interest on such bonds and for such amount as the city council shall
provide, from time to time, as a sinking fund on said bonds not exceeding
one per centum thereof in any one year, shall be annually reserved by
the city treasurer out of the taxes collected from the said city from the
said ward to pay the interest on the said bonds as it becomes due and
payable, and for such sinking fund. All bonds heretofore issued or
heretofore authorized to be issued, for the purpose of improvements in
the said ward are hereby declared to have been lawfully predicatd upon
the value of property in the said ward.

2. This act shall not affect the bonding limit heretofore existing in
said ward. . .

3. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby
repealed.