Chap. 469.—An ACT to submit to the qualified voters of Stafford
county, or any magisterial district thereof, the question of a
‘* Hog Law.”’

Approved March 8, 1890.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That whenever twenty-five qualified voters of each magis-
terial district in Stafford county, or any magisterial dis-
trict, shall petition the county court of the said county
or the judge thereof in vacation for a special election in
said county or any district, on the question of a “hog
law” or “no hog law” therein, such court or judge shall
as soon as practicable after the receipt of said petition,
issue a writ of election in which shall be fixed the day of
holding said election directed to the sheriff of said county,
whose duty it shall be to forthwith post a notice of said
election at each voting place in said county, if the elec-
tion is to be held in the whole county, or at each voting
precinct in any magisterial district when the election is
ordered to be held in such magisterial district: provided,
however, that said petition from any magisterial district
asking an election under the provisions of this act shall
be filed with the said court or judge thereof in vacation
within ninety days from the date of the approval of this
act, said sheriff shall also give notice to the officers
charged with the duty of conducting other elections in
said county or magisterial district as the case may be; but
no election shall be held under this chapter within less
than thirty days from the posting of such notices ay afore-
said. Said election shall be held and conducted as other
special elections are held and conducted.

2. The ballots to be used in said election shall be re-
spectively “for hog law,” and “against hog law.” The
manner of receiving and canvassing the ballots and mak-
ing returns and abstracts thereof, shall conform in all
respects to the requirements of the general election law,
except the certificates of the judges shall be as follows:
We hereby certify that at an election held on day
of , votes were cast for “ hog law,” and votes
were cast against “ hog law.”

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3. The proper official canvassers of general election re-
turns shall canvass these returns in like manner as other
election returns, and when the election is held for the
whole county, they shall certify the number of votes cast
in said county, and also the number of votes cast in each
magisterial district for and against the “hog law,” re-
spectively; when the election is held for one or more
magisterial districts only, they shall certify the number
of votes cast for and against “hog law,” respectively. A
copy of such certificate, in either cage, to be laid before
the county court at its next term.

4. Notwithstanding the election may be held for the
whole county, the vote shall be by districts, and if it ap-
pear from abstracts and returns that a majority of votes
cast in any magisterial district, have been cast against
the “hog law,” then the law shall remain as it is therein.
If, on the other hand, it appear from the abstract and re-
turns that a majority of the votes cast in any magisterial
district have been cast in favor of the “hog law,” then
every owner of any swine, or manager of the same, shall
keep swine in his own bounds; and if any swine should
trespass upon any lands of another, the owner or manager
of said animals shall be liable for all damage or injury
done by said animals to owner of crops or lands upon
which they may trespass, whether said animals wander
from the premises of the owner in the county or district in
which the trespass was committed, or from another county
or district.

5. The damages, fines, or awards in all cases arising
under this act shall be ascertained in the manner pre-
scribed by and under the general law now in force for
trespass and damage.

6. This act shall be in force from its passage.