Chap. 302.—An ACT requiring the County Judge of Sussex to submit
the Question of Continuing or Repealing the Fence Law to the voter:
of Wakefield Township in said County.

Approved March 29, 1875.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That it shall be
the duty of the judge of the county court of the county of
Sussex, upon the petition, in writing, of fifty freeholders in
Wakefield township, in said county, which petition may be
presented either in term, or vacation, to order the several
Officers conducting elections in such township, at the times
and places for holding the first general election thereafter,
to prepare a separate ballot-box for such voting precinct, in
which shall be deposited the ballots of the then qualified
voters who shall desire to vote upon the question of contin-
uing or repealing the act passed January twenty-sixth, eigh-
teen hundred and sixty-six, relating to fences and to the
protection of crops. The said ballots shall be respectively
as follows: “For present fence law.” “ Against present fence
law”: provided, that notice of the time and places of voting
upon said question shall be given by posting the same at the
front door of the courthouse of said county, and at each
voting precinct in said township, and by publication in some
newspaper, if there be one published in said cuunty, at least
thirty days prior to said election.

2. The manner of receiving and canvassing the ballots
cast at such election on said question, and making returns
and abstracts of the results thereof, shall conform in all re-
spects to the regulations prescribed by the general election
law of this state, except that the certificates of the judves
of election shall be as follows: ,

We hereby certify that at the election held , votes

were cast for present tence law, and votes were cast
against present fence law.
as B.} Clerks
C.D. |
E. F.
G. H. > Judges.
I. J.

3. If, from such returns and abstracts of votes cast on the
question of repealing said act, it shall appear that three-
fifths of the qualified voters of the township voting upon
the question are in favor of repealing the act, and that said
three-fifths includes a majority of the votes had by freebold-
ers, then it shall be the duty of the county court to declare
the provisions of said act to be inoperative and repealed in
said township: provided, however, that said repeal shall not
take effect until the expiration of twelve months from the
passage of this act.

4. This act shall be in force from and after its passage.