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3 any ordinance of said city, and shall receive such compensa4 tion as may be fixed by council, which shall be at the rate 5 of not less than one thousand dollars nor more than fifteen 6 hundred and fifty dollars per annum.

Sewers

Sec. 49-b. In case any sewer is constructed as provided for 2 in section forty-nine of chapter eighty-two, acts one thousand 3 nine hundred and eleven, to be paid for by an appropriation 4 from funds in the treasury unappropriated the same shall be 5 assessed and become due and collectible as provided by sections 6 forty-seven and forty-eight of chapter eighty-two, acts one 7 thousand nine hundred and eleven, relating to sidewalks and 8 street paving.

Bonds-Additional Levy

Sec. 52. The municipal authorities of said city shall have the 2 power and authority to issue and make sale of the bonds of 3 the said city and to apply the proceeds thereof to the payment 4 for any general improvement therein, including the purchase 5 by said city of the plant of the Moundsville Water Company, 6 a corporation, and also to provide ground for and erect an 7 incinerator plant or garbage creamatory, or other plant or 8 means for the disposal of garbage or refuse and to provide 9 additional fire apparatus and equipment for the fire department 10 of said city; and such bonds shall be sold for not less than 11 par and payable in a period not to exceed thirty-four years, 12 and shall bear interest not to exceed five per centum per annum; 13 and in the issuance and sale of said bonds the city shall be 14 governed by all the restrictions of the constitution of this state 15 and the statutes of this state, with respect to the issuance and 16 sale of other bonds; provided, that said city shall not, by the 17 sale or issue of bonds for the purposes above mentioned, cause 18 the aggregate of its indebtedness, of every kind whatever, to ex19 ceed five per centum of the value of the taxable property there20 in, but may for the above purposes issue bonds to the maximum 21 limit of said five per cent; nor shall said city make such issue 22 and sale of bonds without; at the same time, providing for the 23 collection of a direct annual tax sufficient to pay annually 24 the interest on the same and a sinking fund to pay the prin25 cipal within the time for which said bonds shall be issued.

26 The council may submit to the voters of said city the question 27 of making an additional levy, and if three-fifths of the votes 28 cast therein be in favor of such increased levy the council 29 may levy the same.

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Refunding Bonds

The council may refund the lawful bonded indebtedness of 32 said city by issuing bonds of the city, payable within twenty 33 years, bearing no greater rate of interest than five per cent, 34 but the indebtedness of said city shall not thereby be increased 35 without the consent of the voters of said city being first had 36 and obtained as provided by law.

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Such bonds shall not be sold or exchanged for the evidence 38 of said indebtedness of said city for less than par, and there 39 shall be provided a sinking fund that will discharge said bonds 40 as they shall become due. Said bonds shall express on their face 41 that they may be paid at any time after five years at the pleasure 42 of the city. A record shall be kept of all proceedings hereunder; 43 provided, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to 44 authorize an increase of the bonded indebtedness of said city 45 beyond the amount authorized by law.

46 All acts or parts of acts inconsistant herewith are hereby 47 repealed.

CHAPTER 77

(House Bill No. 15—Mr. Scanlon)

AN ACT to amend and re-enact section two of chapter eleven of the acts of one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, (Municipal Charters) relating to the southern boundary of the city of Huntington.

[Passed April 24, 1923. In effect ninety days from passage. Became a law without approval of Governor]

SEC.

2. Corporate limits.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That section two of chapter eleven of the acts of one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one (Municipal Charters) be amended and reenacted to read as follows:

Section 2. The corporate limits of the city of Huntington 2 shall be as follows, to-wit:

3 Beginning at a stake at low water mark on the Ohio river 4 southerly side thereof about one mile above the mouth of 5 Guyandotte river at the west side of the Peck farm, thence 6 southerly with the west line of the Peck farm to the top of the 7 river hill; thence westerly with the top of the river hill to the 8 east line of the Southland addition to the city of Huntington, a 9 map or plat of which addition is filed in the county court clerk's 10 office of said county and state; thence with the easterly line 11 of said Southland addition, southerly to the south line of same; 12 thence with the easterly line of said addition extended south13 erly to the top of the bank on the west side of Pats' branch; 14 thence southwesterly with the west bank of said Pats' branch to 15 the east side of the Guyandotte river at low water mark; thence 16 south-easterly with the low water mark of the Guyandotte river 17 and on the easterly side thereof to a point directly opposite the 18 mouth of Crump branch, a tributary of the Guyandotte river, on 19 the westerly side thereof; thence westerly in a straight line and 20 crossing the Guyandotte river to the mouth of said Crump 21 branch; thence southerly with the westerly line of the Isaac 22 Crump lands to what is known as the military line; thence 23 westerly with the said military line to its intersection with the 24 southeasterly corporation line of the city of Huntington, as here25 tofore constituted by chapter one hundred and fifty of the acts 26 of the legislature of one thousand nine hundred and one to the 27 Huntington-Hamlin Pike; thence in a westerly direction to a 28 point on the west side of the McCoy (Eighth Street) road two 29 feet northeast of the northeasterly corner of the F. L. Wey30 mouth land; thence westerly across the McCoy road to the north31 easterly corner of the F. L. Weymouth land; thence following 32 the northeasterly line of F. L. Weymouth's land and the north33 erly line of the land of F. L. and F. A. Weymouth to the inter34 section of the present corporation line at the left fork of Hisey 35 Creek; thence westerly with the northern bank of the said left 36 fork to its intersection with the right fork; thence westerly with 37 the northerly bank of Hisey Fork of Four Pole Creek to where 38 said old corporation line crosses said Hisey Fork; thence in a 39 northerly direction to the northerly branch of Four Pole creek, 40 as heretofore constituted by chapter one hundred and fifty of 41 the acts of the legislature of one thousand nine hundred 42 and one; thence in a westerly direction and down Four Pole 43 creek with the northerly bank thereof to the intersection of said

44 creek with Hisey Fork of said creek; thence with the northerly 45 bank of Four Pole creek westerly and down the same to the 46 intersection of said creek with the southerly line of the right47 of-way of the Chesapeake & Ohio railway company; thence 48 continuing westerly with the said southerly line of the right49 of-way of said railway company to its intersection with the 50 division line between Wayne and Cabell counties; thence with 51 the division line between Wayne and Cabell counties in a north52 erly direction to the low water mark of the south side of the 53 Ohio river; thence easterly with the low water mark of the Ohio 54 river on the southerly side thereof to the point of beginning.

CHAPTER 78

(House Bill No. 541-Mr. Scanlon)

AN ACT to amend chapter eleven of the acts of the legislature of one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one (Municipal Charters), in relation to the charter of the city of Huntington, by amending certain sections of said chapter, and by amending and re-enacting certain other sections, and adding thereto certain new sections, as hereinafter set out.

[Passed April 25, 1923. In effect from passage. Became a law without the approval of the Governor]

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Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That sections two, three, three-a, seven, sixty-two, sixty-five, sixty-seven and sixty-eight, of chapter eleven (Municipal Charters) of the acts of the legislature of West Virginia of one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, be amended and re-enacted, and that section three-b be added thereto, all so as to read as follows:

Sec. 2. The corporate limits of the city of Huntington shall 2 be as follows, towit :

3 Beginning at a stake at low water mark on the Ohio river 4 southerly side thereof about one mile above the mouth of 5 Guyandotte river at the west side of the Peck farm, thence 6 southerly with the west line of the Peck farm to the top of the 7 river hill; thence westerly with the top of the river hill to the 8 east line of the Southland addition to the city of Huntington, a 9 map or plat of which additions is filed in the county court clerk's 10 office of said county and state; thence with the easterly line 11 of said Southland addition, southerly to the south line of same; 12 thence with the easterly line of said addition extended south13 erly to the top of the bank on the west side of Pats' branch; 14 thence southwesterly with the west bank of said Pat's branch to 15 the east side of the Guyandotte river at low water mark; thence 16 south-easterly with the low water mark of the Guyandotte river 17 and on the easterly side thereof to a point directly opposite the 18 mouth of Crump branch, a tributary of the Guyandotte river, on 19 the westerly side thereof; thence westerly in a straight line and 20 crossing the Guyandotte river to the mouth of said Crump 21 branch; thence southerly with the westerly line of the Isaac 22 Crump lands to what is known as the military line; thence 23 westerly with the said military line to its intersection with the 24 southeasterly corporation line of the city of Huntington, as here25 tofore constituted by chapter one hundred and fifty of the acts 26 of the legislature of one thousand nine hundred and one to the 27 Huntington-Hamlin Pike; thence in a westerly direction to a 28 point on the west side of the McCoy (Eighth street) road two 29 feet northeast of the northeasterly corner of the F. L. Wey30 mouth land, thence westerly across the McCoy road to the north31 easterly corner of the F. L. Weymouth land; thence following 32 the northeasterly line of F. L. Weymouth's land and the north33 erly line of the land of F. L. and F. A. Weymouth to the inter34 section of the present corporation line at the left fork of Hisey 35 creek; thence westerly with the northern bank of the said left 36 fork to its intersection with the right fork; thence westerly with 37 the northerly bank of Hisey Fork of Four Pole creek to where 38 said old corporation line crosses said Hisey Fork; thence in a 39 northerly direction to the northerly branch of Four Pole creek, 40 as heretofore constituted by chapter one hundred and fifty of 41 the acts of the legislature of one thousand nine hundred 42 and one; thence in a westerly direction and down Four Pole 43 creek with the northerly bank thereof to the intersection of said

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