Chap. 166.—An ACT to amend and re-enact the second section of
chapter seventy-six, Aets eighteen hundred and seventy-five, entitled
an act to provide for the division of the counties of the commonwealth
into Magisterial Districts. :

Approved March 27, 1876.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section two of chapter seventy-six, Acts of eighteen hundred
and seventy-five, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

§2. It shall be lawful upon petition of fifty qualified voters
of any magisterial district (as organized in the first section
of this act), that may be affected thereby, after the same has
been posted for at least thirty days at the courthouse of the
county, and at the voting place or places of the said magis-
terial district or districts, for the judges of the several county
courts of the said counties, by an order entered of record, for
good cause, to re-arrange, increase or diminish the number of
magisterial districts, change the name thereof, establish or
change the place or places of holding elections therein, to
declare vacancies in office by reason of any of the changes
herein provided for, and to provide for filling the same; but
at or before the trial of said petition, any citizen or citizens
of said district shall have the right to enter himself or them.
selves as defendants thereto, after which said cause shall pro-
ceed in all respects as other causes on the docket of said
court; but after one petition under this section has been re-
jected by said county court, no petition for that purpose
shall be again entertained for the space of twelve months
from the date of such rejection.

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