Chap. 205.—An ACT to provide for an election by the qualified voters of
Franklin magisterial district, of Southampton county, Virginia, to determine
whether or not intoxicating liquors shall be sold in any manner within the
bounds of said district, and if the result of said election is against the sale
of liquor, to abolish the dispensary in said district, or if the result be in
favor of the sale of liquor, to preserve the present law therein.

Approved March 12, 1908.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That upon the
petition in writing of such a number of the legally qualified voters in
Franklin magisterial district, Southampton county, Virginia, as shall
be equal in number to one-fourth of the number of persons voting at
the preceding regular November election in said district, requesting that
an election be held as is hereinafter provided, the circuit court of South-
ampton county, Virginia, or the judge thereof in vacation, shall, within
ten days after the receipt of such petition, order an election to be held
in said district, to determine whether or not intoxicating liquor shall
be sold in the bounds of said district, in any manner, and shall issue a
writ of election fixing a day for the holding of such election, which
shall not be less than thirty days, nor more than sixty days after the
date of said writ, and it shall not be within sixty days of the date of
any other election, regular or special. Notice of said election shall be
given by the sheriff, in accordance with provisions for local option elec-
tions, under chapter twenty-five of the Code of Virginia, and the said
election shall be held and conducted in such a manner as local option
elections are conducted under said chapter twenty-five, except as is
hereinafter provided.

2. The ballots to be used in said election shall be in form as follows:

“For sale of intoxicating liquor,”

“Against sale of intoxicating liquor,”
and if a voter is in favor of the sale of liquor, he shall scratch out the
words “against the sale of intoxicating liquor,” and if he is opposed to
the sale of liquor he shall scratch out “for sale of intoxicating liquor.”
The manner of receiving and canvassing the ballots and making returns
and abstracts, shall conform in all respects to the requirement of the
general election laws, except that the certificate of the judges shall be as
follows :

We hereby certify that at the election held on the ————— day of
——_______——— nineteen hundred and , at Franklin precinct,
‘in Franklin magisterial district, Southampton county, Virginia,

votes were cast “for the sale of intoxicating liquors,” and
votes were cast “against the sale of intoxicating liquors.”

3. If a majority of the votes cast in such election shall be “against
the sale of intoxicating liquor,” then after ninety days subsequent to
the date of said election no intoxicating liquor shall in any manner be

sold in said district, and the dispensary now operating under the law
therein shall be immediately thereafter closed, and any violation of this
provision shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred
dollars and not more than five hundred dollars, and by confinement in
jail not less than thirty days nor more than six months. If the ma-
jority of votes cast in said election shall be “for the sale or intoxicating
liquor,” then the law governing the sale of liquor in said magisterial
district shall thereafter be and remain the same that it was immediately
preceding the said election.

4. The proper official canvassers of general election returns shall can-
vass these returns in like manner as other election returns, and they
shall certify the number of votes cast for and against the sale of in-
toxicating liquors, respectively.

5. Any such election mav be contested in the manner provided for
the contest of local option elections in acts of nineteen hundred and
two, nineteen hundred and three and nineteen hundred and four, page
five hundred and forty-four.