Chap. 138.—An ACT to authorize the town of Norton, in Wise county, on
petition of a majority of the qualified voters in said town, to sell
bonds heretofore legally voted by said town, and use the proceeds of
the sale of the said bonds for public improvements in the said town,
other than that for which the said bonds were voted. _(H. B. 412.)

Approved March 9, 1916.

Whereas, pursuant to the provisions of section ten hundred
and thirty-eight-e, Pollard’s Code (nineteen hundred and four),
acts of the general assembly of Virginia (nineteen hundred and
two-three-four, pages two hundred and fifty-nine, five hundred
and forty-one), the town of Norton, on the tenth day of March,
nineteen hundred and ten, voted to issue fifteen thousand dollars
in bonds, payable thirty years after their date, with interest at
the rate of five per centum per annum, payable semi-annually,
for the purpose of building a town hall in the town of Norton,
in Wise county, which said bonds have not been sold; and

Whereas, the mayor and town council and tax-payers of the
said town deem the said sum to be insufficient to build a town
hall suitable for the needs of said town at this time, and think it
to be to the best interest of the said town of Norton to sell the
said bonds and use the said sum of fifteen thousand dollars, pro-
ceeds of the sale of said bonds, to complete the grading and
macadamizing the streets in the said town; therefore. _

Be it enacted by the general assemblv of Virginia. That
upon a petition of the majority of the qualified voters in the
town of Norton, in Wise county, that it shall be lawful for the
mayor and town council to sell the said fifteen thousand dollars
in bonds, as required by law; and the mayor and town council
may appropriate and use the money received by said town from
the sale of said bonds, in building, grading and macadamizing
the streets in the said town.

2. This act shall be enforced from its passage, an emer-
gency existing therefor, to enable the town of Norton to com-
rlete the building, grading and macadamizing the streets in said
town.