Chap. 126.—An ACT to authorize the city of Newport News to issue on hun-
dred thousand dollars ($100,000.00) of bonds for the purpose of rec ting.
constructing and equipping a jail. CH B 189]
Approved March 4, 1920.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That in
addition to the present indebtedness of the city of Newport News,
the said city be, and is hereby, authorized to issue bonds to such
amount as it may deem sufficient, not to exceed one hundred thousand
dollars ($100,000), for the purpose of erecting, constructing and
equiping a jail for said city.
2. That in the issuance of said bonds the council shall follow the
procedure and do all things required by chapter one hundred and
twenty-two, Code of Virginia, nineteen hundred an nineteen, required
to be done in the issuance of bonds. ,
3. The city of Newport News desiring to immediately construct
the improvement herein provided for, an emergency is declared, and
this act shall be in force from its passage.