CHAP. 20.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to author-
ize cities to create, improve and develop harbors within the corporate
limits, or within two miles thereof, approved March 16, 1910, and to
authorize the issuance of bonds therefor, and to give jurisdiction over
the same. .

Approved February 9, 1912.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
an act entitled an act to authorize cities to create, improve and
develop harbors within the corporate limits, or within two miles
thereof, approved March sixteenth, nineteen hundred and ten,
be amended and re-enacted to read as follows:

§1. That in addition to the powers heretofore conferred, the
council of every city shall have the power to locate, create, estab-
lish, construct, alter, improve, increase, maintain and operate,
and from time to time enlarge and extend, landing places,
wharves, docks, harbors, basins and water approaches thereto,
with necessary buildings and structures, either within the cor-
porate limits or within two miles thereof, and to cut, dredge
and maintain a channel from the same to the deep water of
any stream, bay or inlet adjacent thereto, and to build and
maintain breakwaters for the protection thereof; to lay off,
establish and maintain all necessary streets and highways to,
from and about such landing places, wharves, docks, harbors,
basins and water approaches, and alter, improve and light the
same, and have them kept in good order; to acquire within the
said city, or within two miles thereof, by purchase, condemna-
tion and otherwise, whatever land or other property, including
riparian rights, that may be necessary for locating, creating,
establishing, constructing, altering, improving, increasing, main-
taining, operating, enlarging or extending said landing places,
wharves, docks, harbors, basins, water approaches, channels,
and streets and highways to, from and about the same; to charge
and collect wharfage, dockage and tolls for the use of such land-
ing places, wharves and docks; to prescribe regulations for the
maintenance, operation and conduct of said landing places,
wharves, docks, harbors, basins or approaches, and appoint all
such officers and employees as they may. deem proper; define
their powers, prescribe their duties and compensation, and take
from them a bond with sureties, in such penalty as to the coun-
cil may seem fit, payable to the city by its corporate name, and
with condition for the faithful discharge of the said duties; to
have and exercise civil and police jurisdiction over all such prop-
erty, landing places, wharves, docks, harbors, basins, water
approaches thereto, channels and streets and highways connected
therewith, and afford proper fire protection to said landing
places, wharves, docks, harbors, basins, approaches and channels.

The council of said cities are authorized to issue bonds for
the purpose of locating, creating, establishing, constructing,
altering, improving and increasing such landing places, wharves,
docks, harbors, basins, water approaches and channels, with the
necessary buildings and structures, within the corporate limits
of said cities, or within two miles thereof, and to lay off and
establish and improve all necessary streets and highways to,
from and about the same, not to exceed, however, the limit pro-
scribed by the Constitution for the issuance of such bonds: pro-
vided, however, that no such certificates of debt or bonds shall
be issued unless and until the same shall have been authorized,
and the procedure followed, as set out in an act of the general
assembly of Virginia, known as chapter two hundred and fifty-
four, Acts of nineteen hundred and eight, entitled an act pro-
viding the method by which cities and towns in this Common-
wealth may vote upon the issuance of bonds contemplated by
clause b of section one hundred and twenty-seven of the Con-
stitution, approved March thirteenth, nineteen hundred and
eight. But nothing in this act shall be construed as authorizing
any city to acquire by condemnation any landing places, wharves,
docks or other property of any railroad or steamboat corporation
which mav be necessary for its use.