Chap. 160.—An ACT to provide for submitting the question of the sale of
liquor by a dispensary in the town of Abingdon Virginia, to the qualified
voters of said town, and to prohibit any other election to be held in said town
upon the question of the sale of liquor therein, in any manner, within two
years after any election is held under this act.

Approved March 10, 1908.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That whenever
such of the qualified voters of the towns of Abingdon, Virginia, as shall
be equal in number to one fourth of the number of the persons voting
at the preceding regular municipal election in said town, shall, in term
or vacation, petition the judge of the circuit court of the county of
Washington for a special election in said town on the question of the
sale of liquor by the dispensary in said town, said court or judge shall
within ten days after the receipt of said petition issue a writ of election
in which shall be fixed the day of holding such election, directed to the
sergeant of said town, whose duty it shall be to forthwith post a notice
of said election at the front door of the courthouse of Washington county,
in said town. He shall also give notice to the officers charged with the
duty of conducting municipal elections in said town, but no election
shall be held under the provisions of this act within less than thirty
days from the posting of such notice as aforesaid, nor within thirty
days of any other regular election. Said special election. shall be held
and conducted as other special elections are held and conducted.

2. The ballots to be used in said election shall be, respectively, as fol-
lows: “For dispensary” and “Against dispensary.” The manner of re-
ceiving and canvassing the ballots and making returns and abstracts
thereof shall conform in all respects to the requirements of the general
election law, except that the certificate of the judges shall be as follows:
“We hereby certify that at the election held on the day of

, ———, ————_ votes were cast for dispensary and
votes were cast against dispensary.

E. F.

A. B. G. H.

C. D. J. K.
Clerks. Judges.

3. All elections held under this act shall be held at the place, or places,
where municipal elections are held in said town.

The proper official canvassers of the general election returns for mu-
nicipal elections in said town shall canvass these returns in like manner
as other election returns, and they shall certify the number of votes cast
for and against the dispensary, respectively, to the town council of said
town, and a copy of such certificate shall be laid before the circuit court
at its next term.

4. If it appears from the abstracts and returns that a majority of the
votes cast at such election were against the sale of liquor by the dispen-
sary, then no wines, spirituous or malt liquors or any mixture thereof
shall thereafter be sold within said town, except that the managers of
said dispensary shall have sixty days to dispose of the stock on hand,
either by retail or wholesale.

But if it appears from the said abstracts and returns that a majority
of the votes cast at such election were in favor of the sale of liquor by the
dispensary, then the said dispensary and the sale of liquor thereby may
be continued as under the act providing for the holding of an election
in the town of Abingdon on the question of a liquor dispensary in said
town, and. so forth, approved the fifteenth day of March, nineteen hun-
dred and six.

After any such election has been held in said town there shall not be
another election held under this act, or upon the question of the sale of
liquor in any manner in said town within two years.

5. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby
repealed.