Chap. 104.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 45 and 54 of an aet to
incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and to
provide a charter therefor. (H B 139]

Approved March 6, 1918.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tions forty-five and fifty-four of an act to incorporate the city of
Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and to provide a charter
therefor, be amended and re-enacted to read as follows:

Section 45. Where, by the provision of this act, the council has
the authority to pass ordinances on any subject, it may prescribe any
penalty for the violation thereof, not exceeding five hundred dollars,
or imprisonment in the city jail not exceeding ninety days, either or
both, and may provide that the offender, on failing to pay the pen-
alty imposed, shall be imprisoned in the jail of the city for a term
not exceeding ninety days, which penalties may be prosecuted and
recovered, with costs, in the name of the city of Newport News, or
may compel them to work on the streets or other public improve-
ments of said city. The accused, if convicted, shall have the mght
of appeal to the corporation court of said city.

Sec. 54. (As amended by act approved February ninth, nineteen
hundred), The council shall have authority to make such ordinances,
by-laws, rules, regulations, and resolutions not inconsistent with the
laws of this State, or the provisions of this act, as may be deemed
expedient by it; provided, that no by-law, rule, regulation, resolu-
tion, or appropriation be made by the said council creating an in-
debtedness, or paying or directing the payment of any sum of money,
of greater value than three hundred dollars, except upon vote of
three-fourths of the members of the said council; nor shall any such
measure be passed over the veto of the mayor, save upon a three-
fourths vote of the members of the said council. In addition to the
special powers herein granted, the council shall have authority to
make such ordinances, by-laws, rules, regulations, and resolutions
not inconsistent with the laws of the State or the provisions of this
act, as may be expedient, for maintaining the good government and
welfare of the city and its trade, commerce and manufactures, and
to enforce by ordinance and to inflict penalties for violation thereof,
not exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the city jail
not exceeding ninety days, either or both, and may provide that the
offender on failing to pay the penalty imposed, shall be imprisoned
in the jail of the city for a term not exceeding ninety days.