Chap. 221.—An ACT providing for submitting the qnestion of liquor
license or no quer license to the qualified voters of the several
magistenial dutricts of Alexandria county, at the next enseing elec-
tion for disirie: officers, aud at every subsequent cleciion for di st viet
oflicers,

Approved March 8, 1673

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly 0 i Virgicia. Phat it
shall be the duty of the officers conducting the elections in the
several m: agistera tL districts lu the county of Alexondiie, ab the
tine and place of holding the first election for district o'hvers
after the passage of this act, and every subsequent elochion for
district ofLcers thereafter, to prepare a separate ballot-box for
each of nes i“ everal voting precincts, In which shall be deposited
the ballots of the then qualif ed voters who may desire to vote
upon the a testion of license for the sale of intoxicating liquors
in said districts. The ballots shall be respectively as follows:
“For license for the sale of intoxicating ‘liquors 3; Against
license for the sale of intoxicating liquors.’ It shall be the
duty of the sheriff of said county to post notices of said elec-
tion at the several voting places in said county not less than
fifteen days preceding said election.

2. The manner of receiving and canvassing the ballots at such
elections on said question, and making returns and abstracts
thereof, shall conform in ail respects to the requirements of the
general election law of the state, except that the certificate of
the judges shall be as follows:

We hereby certify that at the election held ————, —__—
votes were cast for liccuse for sale of intoxicating liquors, and

voles were cast against license for the sale of intox1-
cating liquors.

a - Clerks.
And the county canvassers of the returns made to the clerk’s
office, shall canvass these returns in like manner as other elec-
tion returns, and certify for each district the votes cast for and
against license respectively; a copy of which shall be laid
before the county court by the clerk atthe next term thereafter.

3. If it appear from the abstracts and returns of any such
election that in any magisterial district of said county a majority
of votes have been cast against license for the sale of intoxi-
cating liquors, then no license for such sale in any of the dis-
tricts so voting shall be granted, and any person who shall! sell
any intoxicating Hquors in any such districts, shall incur all
the penalties prescribed by the general law for selling wine,
ardent spirits, malt liquors, or any mixture of any of them
without a license therefor.

4. ‘This act shall be in force from its passage.