Chap. 37.—An ACT to provide for an election by the qualified voters of
Waverly magisterial district, of Sussex 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. And to provide for biennial elections in said district on said
questions.

Approved February 18, 1910.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That upon the
petition in writing of fifty of the legally qualified voters in Waverly
magisterial district, Sussex county, Virginia, voting at the last preced-
ing regular November election in said district, requesting that an elec-
tion be held as is hereafter provided, the circuit court of Sussex county,
Virginia, or the judge thereof in vacation, shall, within ten davs after the
receipt of such a petition, order an election to be held in said district, to
determine whether or not intoxicating liquors shall be sold in the bounds
of said districts, 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 elections, 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 chap-
ter twenty-five, except as is hereafter provided.

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

“For sale of intoxicating liquors,”

“Against sale of intoxicating liquors,”
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 requirements 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 Waverly precinct, in

Waverly magisterial district, Sussex county, Virginia, —-—-——— votes
were cast “for 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 liquors,” 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 majority of
votes cast in said election shall be “for the sale of intoxicating liquors,”
then the Jaw governing the sale of liquor in said magisterial district shall
thereafter be and remain the same that it was immediately preceding the
said election.

+. The proper official canvassers of general clection returns shall
canvass these returns in like manner as other election returns, and they
shall certify the number of votes cast for and against the sale of intoxi-
cating liquors, respectively.

5. Any such election may 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.

6. If the majority of votes cast in said election shall be for the sale
of intoxicating liquors, then after two years from the holding of such
election, on a petition of a majority of the qualified voters who voted at
the next preceding regular November election held in said district, the
said judge of the circuit court may order a second election under the
same regulations as provided for the first election, and the result of such
election shall be ascertained and have the same force as if the question
had never been submitted; and so on, periodically, at the end or after
the lapse of each two year period, ad infinitum.