Chap. 176.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 14 of an act approved Feb-
ruary 25, 1892, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Colonial Beach, in
the county of Westmoreland.

Approved April 24, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
fourteen of an act approved February twenty-five, eighteen hundred and
ninety-two, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Colonial Beach, in
the county of Westmoreland, be amended and re-enacted so as to read
as follows:

§ 14. The mayor and councilmen shall hold their offices for two years.
or until their successors are elected and qualified, and the qualified voters
of the town shall elect a mayor and councilmen for said town on the
fourth Thursday in May, anno domini eighteen hundred and ninetv-
four, and every two years thereafter. The qualification of electors for
mayor and councilmen shall be as follows,and none other: All males of the
ageof twenty-one years being residents of Colonial Beach for three months
next previous to any election for mavor and councilmen, and who aré
otherwise qualified to vote in any State election. When two or more per-
sous are to be elected to the same office, the several persons of the number
- required having the highest number of votes shall be declared: elected.
The town clerk shall act as registrar for all municipal elections, and none
others, and keep open the registration books of the said town for such pur-
- poses until sundown of the day previous to such election in order to en-
able the qualified voters in the municipal elections to register. The town
council shall appoint three judges of election for municipal elections in
said town; and in all other respects, the manner of conducting the muni-
cipal election, and the canvassing of the vote and the returns to be made,
shall conform to the general law of the State as to municipal elections.
And whenever at the time of the municipal election of mayor and
councilmen provided for by this section, such of the qualified voters of
the municipality of the said town of Colonial Beach, as constitute one-
fourth of the persons voting at the preceding municipal election in the
said town shall, at least thirty days prior to such municipal election, pe-
tition the mayor and council of said town, asking for the right to vote
at said regular municipal election upon the question of granting or not
granting a liquor license within the limits of said town; the said mayor,
or council, within five days after the receipt of said petition, shall order
the clerk of the said town council to post at every voting place in said
town, and on the front door of the town hall a notice setting forth the
fact that the said question of the granting or not granting of a license
to sell liquor in the said town will be voted upon at the said regular
municipal election; and if at the said regular municipal election a ma-
jority of the regularly qualified voters thereat shall cast ballots, having
thereon the words “for license,” then license to sell liquor shall be
granted, subject to the general laws of the State, within the corporate
limits of said town during the two years succeeding said election; but
if a majority of the said qualified voters thereat shall cast ballots, hav-
ing thereon the words “against license,” then no license to. sell liquor shall
be granted during the two years succeeding said election: provided, how-
ever, that no person who is not entitled to vote at the said municipal
election for the officers of said town shall vote on the question of license
or no license, as above provided for: and provided further, that no voter
who votes on the question of license or. no license at any special election
held for Washington magisterial district, of Westmoreland county,
wherein the said town is situated, shall vote upon this question at any
municipal election within said town, nor shall any person who has voted
upon the question for Washington magisterial district, of Westmoreland
county, vote upon the same question in the said town of Colonial Beach.

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