Chap. 201.—An ACT to allow the voters in a certain portion of Augusta county
to vote on the stock law, and provide for putting the same into operation.

Approved March 15, 1902.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the county
court of Augusta county, or the judge thereof in vacation, upon the writ-
ten petition, made not less than sixty days before any regular election,
of at least two hundred voters of said county who reside within that por-
tion of Augusta county lying between a line on the east beginning at a
point where the Shenandoah Valley branch of the Norfolk and Western
railroad crosses Rockingham county line; thence along the line of said
railroad to the point where said railroad crosses South river at Lipscomb
station; thence with South river to the point where said railroad again
crosses said river at the John Wallace place; thence with said railroad to
the Rockbridge county line, and a line on the west, beginning at the
Rockbridge county line on the Middlebrook and Brownsburg pike, and
running with said road to George Rose’s shop; thence with the public
road leading to St. Marks Church to the intersection of said road with the
Walker’s creek road ; thence with Walker’s creek road to the Summerdean
road at Shemaraiah Church; thence with the Summerdean road to the
ford across Middle river at J. F. Clemmer’s; thence with Middle river to
the road leading from Trimble’s mill to Buffalo Gap (known as the
mountain road) at J. B. Trimble’s old saw-mill; thence with said road to
the Parkersburg pike; thence with the Buffalo Gap and Churchville road
to the line between Baxter Crawford and C. A. Bear; thence with a
straight line by Baxter Crawford’s to the Shirley house; thence with the
road to Farrow’s house; thence along the Loan Fountain road to the
Churchville and Jennings Gap road at Loan Fountain postoffice; thence
westerly with the Churchville and Jennings Gap road to the Parnassus
road at the house formerly owned by S. B. Allen; thence with the Parnas-
sus road to its intersection with the public road leading from Stover’s
shop to Stribling Springs; thence with the road leading from Stover’s
shop to Stribling Springs to the old Driver blacksmith shop about one
mile east of Stribling Springs; thence along the public road passing
William Burton’s, D. L. Snyder’s, and others to the Mount Solon road
at J. C. Horn’s; thence along the Mount Solon road to John Q. Douglas’ ;
thence along the county road northwardly, crossing Freemasons run to
North river; thence down North river to the ford at St. Pauls Church;
thence northwardly by a straight line to Emmanuel Church; thence along
the road running by Rusmisel, Click, Fifer’s, and crossing Thorny
branch to the Rockingham county line, shall submit to the qualified
voters in the aforesaid described portion of said county, at the first regu-
lar ensuing election thereafter, the question as to whether there shall or
shall not be a stock law within the aforesaid boundary: provided, how-
ever, that the voters of no incorporated town within the aforesaid limits
shall be allowed to vote on this question. It shall be the duty of the
electoral board of Augusta county to have posted at the polling place of
each election district embraced in, or any part of which is embraced in,
the above described boundary, at least ten days before the date of said
election, a copy of this act, and to provide at each of said polling places a
separate box wherein the ballots hereinafter provided for shall be de-
posited. The ballots to be used at said election shall be furnished by the
electoral board of Augusta county, and shall contain the words, “for
stock law” and “against stock law.” The names of all persons voting
under this act shall be recorded in a separate poll-book by a special clerk
to be appointed for that purpose by the judges of election at each precinct
on or before the day of said election. The votes shall be returned and
canvassed as provided by law in the case of other elections. If it shall
appear from the returns thereof that a majority of the votes cast in said
election are in favor of a stock law, then it shall be unlawful after the
first day of January succeeding the election for the owner or manager of
horse, mule, cow, sheep, goat, cattle, or any other domestic animal to
permit such animal to go at large upon any highway or unenclosed lands
within the above described boundaries. Any violation of this act shall
subject the owner or manager of such animals to the provisions of and
penalties imposed by sections two thousand and forty-two, two thousand
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and forty-nine, and two thousand and fifty of the Code of Virginia and
acts amendatory thereof. Nothing in this act shall be construed as ex-
empting any railroad corporation from the present laws as to the killing
or injury to any live stock within the aforesaid boundaries. And nothing
in this act shall be construed as in any way alicring, amending, or re-
pealing an act approved February nincteenth, eighteen hundred and
ninety-four, entitled “an act to prohibit hogs, sheep, and goats from run-
ning at large upon the public roads or unenclosed lands in the county of
Augusta.”
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.