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--the result being that the health, life and property of both those within and those
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<br />without the Corporate limits are endangered.
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<br />6. The City of Charlottesville shall assume and provide for the reimbursement of the
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<br />County of Albemarle of a just proportion of any existing debt of said County, if any
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<br />there be, and shall also make compensation to said County for any school house, or
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<br />other public building, or land of said County within said territory proposed to be
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<br />annexed, which it may appear to be proper andnecessary to transfer to the City of
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<br />Charlottesville.
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<br />7. The tax rate upon real estate and personal property, assessed within said territory,
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<br />shall not be increased for five years after such annexation beyond the rate at present
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<br />assessed by the County of Albemarle for its purposes, except upon a petition of a
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<br />majority of the freeholders of such territory, presented to the Council of the City
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<br />of Charlottesville.
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<br />8. All the revenues derived from by the City of Charlottesville from taxation in
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<br />such territory during the first five years, either on property or from other sources,
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<br />including licenses, (except the tax for schools as provided by Section 136 of the
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<br />Constitution), shall be wholly expended by the City of Charlottesville upon streets
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<br />sewers, light, water and other public improvements in said territory: Provided, however
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<br />that at any time within the five years, The Council of the City ofCharlottesville may
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<br />by ordinance, set apart a sum equal to twelve per centum of the assessed value, at the
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<br />time of annexation, of the lands annexed, or of such part thereof as may be determined
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<br />by said Council. And when said sum shall have been so set apart, and said public
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<br />improvement shall have been bgun, the land annexed, or part thereof, as aforesaid,
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<br />as well as the assessable personal property therein, subject to the city tax rate,
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<br />and the proceeds thereof shall be paid into the City treasury, along with all other
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<br />taxes and licenses in such territory for general purposes, altrough said five years shall
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<br />not have elapsed: provided, that said sum to be so set apart and expended shall be
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<br />reduced by the sum already expended on said improvements under any other plan of
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<br />annexation, and proved, further, that out of the proceeds of sale of the next issue of
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<br />bonds by the City of Charlottesville after such annexation, the said sum equal to the
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<br />said twelve per centum of the assessed value at the time of annexation, of the lands
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<br />annexed, reduced by the sum hereinbefore mentioned, shall be set apart and expended
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<br />in said territory as hereinbefore directed, unless said sum has already been expended.
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<br />9. That all county levies imposed on persons and property within such territory for
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<br />the current fiscal year in which said annexation is made, shall be paid into said
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<br />County treasury.
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<br />10. The City of Charlottesville, shall by proper ordinance, organize such annexed
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<br />territory into neer ward, or wards, and shall, upon annexation, select the proper number
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<br />of Councilmen from the residents and qualified voters of such new ward, or wards,
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<br />to serve until the next general election, or attach the same to existing wards, and
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<br />shall provided by proper ordinance, or ordinances, as may be necessary, for the future
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<br />management and government of such annexed territory, conformable to the prevent man-
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<br />agement and government of the City of Charlottesville now existing, and as may be
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<br />rendared necessary by rason of increased population, or for any other reason, as may
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<br />be required by law.
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<br />11. The paupers now in the County Alms House, heretofore taken by the County of
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<br />Albemarle from the annexed territory, shall be received and cared for by the City of
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<br />Charlottesville in the City Alms House, or other suitable place which it shall provide,
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<br />if necessary, for their maintenance.
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<br />12. The City Attorney shall proceed at once to institute such proceedings as may be
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<br />required and necessary to the end that said territory may be annexed, in accordance
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<br />with the terns ad conditions of this ordinance.
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<br />Adopted by the Council May 21, 1914. Presented and approved May 22, 1914
<br />President Signature. Mayor Singature.
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<br />AMENDMENT AND REENACTMENT OF SECTION 614 OF THE CITY ORDINANCES:
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<br />BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF CHARLOTTESVILLE, THAT SECTION 614 OF THE ORDINANCES
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<br />BE AND THE SAME IS HEREBY AMENDED AND REENACTED, AS FOLLOWS:
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<br />SEC. 614 MUNICIPSL BUSINESS MANAGER, HIS DUTITES AND POWERS, TERM, ETC.
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<br />BE IT ORDAINED, BY THE COUNCIL OF CHARLOTTESVILLE, That a Municipal Business Manager
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<br />be lected at the meeting of this Council, regular, or called, next after
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<br />the passage of this ordinance, for a term of two years beginning September 1, 1914,
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<br />and biennially in August thereafter, at a salary of fifty dollars a month, and under
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<br />and a bond of such amount as the Finance Committee may designate.
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<br />That all the duties of an executive or administrative character performed by
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<br />now of the several committees of the Council of said City, under any ordinanceid
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<br />in force, be conferred upon and required to be exclusively discharged by the said
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<br />Municipal. Business manager, the said committees to act in an advisory capacity; and
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<br />that in case a committee representing a department shall, by a vote of all its
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<br />members at a meeting called with notice to the said Municipal Business Manager,
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<br />disapprove of any proposed act in that department the matter at issue shall be _
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<br />to the Council for its action.
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<br />That the said Municipal Business Manager shall, as near as possible to September
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<br />1, 1914, and quarterly thereafter, make up and present to the Council an estimate of
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<br />all sums of money necessary to carry on the operations of the City in the various
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<br />departments for the ensuing quarter.
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<br />That said Municipal Business Manager shall, at the end of each quarter, make a
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<br />written report to the Council of all transactions and operations during the said
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<br />quarter, including a detailed statement of all bills approved by him showing how and,
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<br />where the various sums were expended during said quarter in order that all disburse-
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<br />ments may be related to their objects in the several deparments.
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<br />That this ordinance shall be in force from its passage and all ordinances or
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<br />parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.
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<br />Adopted by the Council July 9, 1914. Presented and approved July lO, 1914.
<br />President Signature. Mayor Singature.
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