Chap. 172.—An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to provide for creating,
working, and maintaining public roads in Fairfax county, and defining bound-
aries 0 same, approved March 14, 1904, and all acts amendatory ei

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Approved March 14, 1924.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act
entitled an act to provide for creating, working and maintaining
public roads in Fairfax county, and defining boundaries of same, ap-
proved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred and four, and all acts
amendatory thereof, be and the same are hereby repealed.

But this act shall not become effective until and unless ratified by
a majority of the qualified voters of Fairfax county, as hereinafter
provided.

Not less than sixty days before the general election to be held on
the Tuesday after the first Monday in November, nineteen hundred
and twenty-four, the circuit court of Fairfax county, or the judge
thereof in vacation, shall issue a writ of election calling an election to
be held under the provisions of this act on the Tuesday after the first
Monday in November, nineteen hundred and twenty-four. Said writ
shall be directed to the sheriff of Fairfax county, whose duty it shall
be to forthwith post a notice of said election at each voting precinct
of the county. Said election shall be held and conducted as other
elections are held and conducted, and the necessary expenses of the
same paid as provided by general law.

The ballots to be used in said election shall, be prepared and fur-
nished by the regular election officials and on each ballot shall be
printed in separate lines the following words:

“For repeal of special road law”’

“Against repeal of special road law”’
and said ballots shall in all other respects conform to general law.
Voters desiring to vote for the repeal shall strike out the words ‘‘Against
repeal of special road law’’, and voters desiring to vote against the
repeal shall strike out the words “For repeal of special road law’.
Voters striking out or erasing the words “For” or ‘‘Against”’ shall be
deemed to have stricken out or erased the entire line.

The manner of receiving and canvassing the ballot and making
returns and abstracts thereof, shall conform in all respects to the re-
quirements of the general election law, except that the certificate of
the judges, as to the result of the election upon this question at each
voting precinct of the county shall be as follows:
‘“‘We hereby certify at the election held on the........................ day of
bec ecececceceteneceeeeeeensecbensees , 1924,...................votes were cast for repeal of
special road law, ANd... votes were cast against repeal of
special road law.”’

The proper official canvassers of general election results 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 repeal of
such special road law, and said canvassers shall file their said certifi-
cate in the office of the clerk of the circuit court of Fairfax county,
Virginia, and said clerk, at the next regular meeting of the board of
supervisors of said county, which is held after such certificate is filed
with him, shall report to the board the result of said election as shown
by said certificate, and in event a majority of the voters have voted in
favor of said repeal, as shown by said certificate, the said board shall
spread upon its minutes an order showing that fact and declaring said
special road law for Fairfax county to have been repealed, and in event
a majority of votes is cast against said repeal, as shown by said certifi-
cate, the clerk shall report such fact to said board which shall enter an
order declaring that the said special road law remains in full force and
effect.