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~ ilt, SECTtC~N 26. (a) The rights of the city of Portsmouth in and to its water front, wharf property, public lan~thags, ~aarves, docks, streets, avenues, pa~s, bridges and other public places~ mad its gas, water and electric wor~,s, shall not be sold, except by a resolution passed by a recorded affirmative vote of three-finn~ths of all t_he members elected to the cotmcil. (b) Before selling any such property, and before granting any franchise, privilege, lease, or right of any kind to use any public prop- erty or easement of any descriptic~, except in the case of and for a trunk rail~y, the city shall first, after due advertisement, receive bids therefor publicly. Such advertisement shall be published for at least three days in a newspaper published in, or having a general cir- culation in, the city of Portsmouth. Such bids may be upon such terms and may be received in such .vranner as the City Manager m~y determine, unless the council shall direct otherwise. (c) The city m~y sell or convey any of its property to the Commonwealth of Virginia, any political subdivisio~ thereof, or to the federal government and may do so without advertisement and without receiving bids. CHAPTER III. SECTION 31(A). In any action against the city to recover dsm~ges against it for any negligence, where any person is liable with the city for such negligence every such person shall be joined as defendant with the city in any action brought to recover dsmages for such negligence, and when there is a verdict and judgment against the city, as well as the other defendaut, it shall be ascertained by either the court or the jury which of the defendants is primarily liable for the damages assessed. CHAPTER IV. SECTI~ 46(A). The payment of any taxes to the city of Portsmouth, both those which nave been assessed and those which ought to have been assessed, may in addition co any remedies other~ise allowed 0y law, be enforced by warrant, motion, action of debt or assumpsit, bill in chancery, or by attachment in courts not of record and courts of record within this State in the same manner, to the san~ extent and with the same rights of appeal, as now exist or ~y hereafter be provided by law for the enforce~nv of demands between iudividuals. Such proceedings shall be instituted and conducted Ln the name of the city of Portsmouth at the request of the city council or the city treasurer. Any bill in chancery for the enforcement of a lien of taxes against land may be brought in the corporation or circuit court of the city and in such proceedings the property may be sold for the payment of the taxes due thereon, and such lien shall ~o any other lien or encumbrance upon t~e property or to dower or courtesy, and it shall not be necessary grotunds of J uris~iction,