Chap. 444.—An ACT authorizing the Board of Supervisors of Augusta
county, on petition, to submit to the voters of the same or any dis-
trict thereof, the question of making the owners of hogs responsible
for damuges committed by them when turned louse to range on any
street or public road where there is no public common or forest
outlet on which to subsist.

Approved March 15, 1884.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
any owner of hogs, who shall turn them loose to subsist on
any street or public road where there is no public commons
or forest outlet, shall be responsible in damages to any person
on whose property a trespass is committed by them.

2. When any trespass shall be committed as aforesaid, the
owner of said hogs shall immediately remove and restrain
the same, and pay the damages committed by them to the
person damaged. If the hogs are not immediately removed
and restrained, or payment is not immediately made, or the
parties cannot agree on the amount of damages done, it shall

e lawful for the party damaged to sue for the same.

3. If after the owner of such hogs has been notified that
they have already committed a trespass and damage, shall
negicct or refuse to restrain such hogs, for a second ‘trespass
double damages shall be paid, and the awcrieved and injured
party may take possession of such hows while trespassing,
and hold the same until the damages, costs of procedure,
taking, keeping, and feeding are paid; ‘for a third or more
trespass, or if not redeemed, on capture for the second tres-
pass, after trial and judgment before a court of jurisdiction,
the hogs shall be sold by the officer as other property is sold
under execution, and out of the proceeds of sale he shall } pay
the costs, dumages, and expenses, and the remainder, if any,
to the owner of the said hogs.

4. It shall be the duty of the board of supervisors of said
county, at such time as they may deem advisable, on petition
of not less than fitty frecholders, in each magisterial district
of said county, to submit to the voters of said county at any
general election, the question of the adoption of this act as a
law for said county; or, if the board of supervisors are
petitioned by not less than fifty treeholders of one mazyis-
terial district to submit to the voters of such district the
question of the adoption of this act as a law for said district,
it shall be their duty to do so as aforesaid, taking care in
either case to give notice of the sume.

5. It shall be the duty of' the officers conducting the elec-
tion in Augusta orany magisterial district, as the case may
be, to open a poll on the day of , to receive the
ballots of the qualified voters who shall vote on this act,
which ballots shall be as follows: “For the hog law,’ and
“ Against the hog law.” The ballots so cast shall be deemed
and taken as a vote for or against this act, and the manner
of receiving and canvassing the ballots and making returns
thereof, shall be in accordance with existing laws, except that
the certificate of the judges shall be as follows:

We hereby certify that at the election held on the
of ———., votes were cast for the hog law, and
votes were cast against the hog law.

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Signatures of the Judges.
6. Should a majority of the votes thus cast be tor the hog
law, it shall be deemed the adoption thereof.
7. This act shall be in force trom its passage.