Chap. 505.—An ACT providing local option for Amherst county.
Approved March 17, 1884.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
it shall be the duty of the judge of the county court of Am-
herst county, at any regular election in said county, upon
petition of five hundred voters of said county, to order an
election to be held in said county, and in each magisterial
district thereof, on the question of liquor license, or no liquor
license. And the county judge shall within ten days after
the receipt of said petition, certify that fact to the sheriff of
the said county, and it shall be his duty to post at each vo-
ting place in said county, notice of the said election, and also
to publish the same in the county paper of the said county,
not less than one month prior to the day of said election.

2. That it shall be the duty. of the officers conducting the
election in said county, after they shall bave received notice
of a vote to be taken on the license question, to prepare a
separate ballot-box for cach voting precinct in the said
county, in which shall be deposited the ballots of the then
qualified voters who may desire to vote upon the question of
license for the sale of intoxicating liquors in said county or
district. The ballots shall be respectively as follows: “For
license for the sale of intoxicating liquors”; ‘“ Against license
for the sale of intoxicating liquors.”

3. The manner of receiving and canvassing the ballots at
said election on said question, and making returns and ab-
stracts thereof, shall conform in all respects, to the require-
ments of the general election law of the state, except that the
certificate of the judges shall by as follows:

We hereby certify, that at the election held on the
day of ’ votes were cast for license for sale of in-
toxicating liquors, and votes were cast against license
for the sale of intoxicating liquors.

A. B.) Gyorks Ki. F.
C. D. i G. H. } Judges.
J. K.

And the county canvassers of the returns made to tho
clerk’s office, shall canvass these returns in like manner as
other election returns, and certify for each district the votes
cast for and against license respectively, and for and against
license in the said county, a copy of which shall be laid be-
fore the county court by the clerk, at the next term there-
after.

4. If it appear from the abstracts and returns of any such
election, that in the said county, a majority of votes have been
cast against license for the sale of intoxicating liquors, then
no license shall be granted to any person for the sale of such
liquors, and any person who shall sell any intoxicating
liquors in the said county, shall incur the penalty prescribe
by the general law for selling wine, ardent spirits, malt
liquors or any mixture of them, without a license therefor.

5. But if it appear from the abstracts and returns of any
such election, that in the said county a majority of votes
have been cast in favor of license, and that a majority of
votes bave been cast ayainst license in any district or dis-
tricts of said county, then no license for such sale in any of
the districts so voting shall be granted, and any person who
shall sell any intoxicating liquors in any such district, shall
incur all the penalties prescribed by the general law for sell-
ing wine, ardent spirits, malt liquors, or any mixture of
them without a license therefor.

6. This act shall be in force from its passage.