Chap. 4.-An ACT to provide for the holding of an election on the following
question: Shall statewide prohibition be continued or shall a plan of liquor
control be adopted, to prescribe the qualifications of voters and the method
of holding said elections and of ascertaining the results thereof; to provide
for the appointment of a committee to prepare and present to the General
Assembly at its next regular session a bill or bills for carrying into effect
the will of the people as disclosed by the majority vote in the said election;
and to make an appropriation to defray the expenses of the said aes

Approved August 29, 1933

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, as follows:

Section 1. On the same day on which an election shall be held
throughout the State of Virginia for the election of delegates to a con-
vention, hereinafter referred to as constitutional convention, to be held
to ratify or reject an amendment to the Constitution of the United
States, proposed by the Congress of the United States for the repeal
of the eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the
United States and for other purposes, there shall also be submitted to
the qualified voters of the State, meaning all persons then qualified to
vote for members of the General Assembly at the general election to
be held on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November, nineteen
hundred and thirty-three, the following question:

If the eighteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United
States is repealed, shall statewide prohibition be continued in Virginia
or shall a plan of liquor control be adopted, such plan of liquor control
to permit the manufacture, sale, use and handling of intoxicating liquors
under provisions prohibiting saloons and reserving to each county and
city the right by popular vote to prohibit the sale of such liquor within
each such county or city. : Ube | :

The majority vote on the issue contained in said question shall be
determinative of the same. a 7 obs arn

Section 2. At the same time the electoral boards of the counties
and cities of the State shall cause to be printed the ballots to be used
in the election of delegates to the said constitutional convention, they
shall also cause. to be printed and distributed in the manner prescribed
by law for the printing and distributing of other ballots, the requisite
number of ballots to be used for the submission of the foregoing ques-
tions, which ballots shall be separate from any other ballots to be used
in said election. The said ballots shall be in the following form:
OFFICIAL BALLOT
QUESTION

If the eighteenth amendment is repealed I favor:

(a) CONTINUATION OF STATE PROHIBITION.

(b) A PLAN OF LIQUOR CONTROL.

“A plan of liquor control” means a plan permitting and regulating
the manufacture, sale, use and handling of intoxicating liquors under
provisions prohibiting the saloon and reserving to each county and city
the right by popular vote to prohibit the sale of such liquor within each
such county or city.

(Strike from above either “continuation of State prohibition” or
“a plan of liquor control.” )

The said ballots shall, in all other respects, conform to general law.

In marking said ballots, electors shall strike out the words setting
forth each proposition against which they desire to vote by drawing a
line or lines at least two-thirds of the way through the said words, leav-
ing the words setting forth each proposition for which they desire to
vote unscratched.

Section 3. The said election on the foregoing questions shall be held
and conducted by the same election officials who shall hold and conduct
the said election for the selection of delegates to the said constitutional
convention, and who shall receive no additional compensation therefor.
They shall provide separate ballot boxes in which shall be deposited the
ballots cast on the foregoing questions, and no other.

Section 4. The ballots cast on said questions shall be counted, certi-
fied and canvassed at the same times and by the same officials, as the
ballots cast for the election of delegates to the said constitutional con-
vention shall be counted, certified and canvassed. Upon the completion
of the final canvass thereof by the State Board of Canvassers, the said
board shall make out in duplicate, a certificate setting forth the total
number of votes cast for each proposition set forth in each of the ques-
tions contained on the ballots herein provided for, and shall forthwith
transmit one of the said certificates to the Governor, who shall, upon
receipt thereof, issue a proclamation declaring the results of the said
election.

Section 5. A committee shall be appointed at the present session of
the General Assembly, to be composed of fifteen members, five to be
appointed by the Governor, five by the President of the Senate from
the members of the Senate, and five by the Speaker of the House of
Delegates from the members of the House, whose duty it shall be, in
the event a majority of those voting in the said election on the first ques-
tion contained on the said ballot shall favor the adoption of a plan of
liquor control, to meet together at such time or times, and place or places
as they may deem proper, and after due and careful consideration, pre-
pare and present to the General Assembly for consideration at its next
regular session, a bill or bills designed to carry into effect the will
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of the people as expressed by the majority vote on the two questions
submitted at the said election.

The members of the said committee shall serve without compensa-
tion, but they shall be repaid their actual expenses incurred in the per-
formance of their duties hereunder. For such purpose there is hereby
appropriated out of any monies in the State treasury not otherwise
appropriated, the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, or so much thereof
as shall be necessary, the same to be paid by the Treasurer, on the war-
rants of the Comptroller, issued upon vouchers signed by the chairman
of said committee and approved by the Governor.

2. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its passage.