CHAP. 370.—An ACT to submit the question of a hog law to the
voters of Rappahannock.

Approved February 25, 1892.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That an election shall be held in Rappahannock county
on the fourth Thursday in May, eighteen hundred and
ninety-two, by the judges of election in said county at the
several voting places therein, to enable the qualified voters
of each district in said county to declare by their votes
whether or not they will agree to a law to be known us
“the hog law.” The ballots shall be, respectively, “for
hog law,” “against hog law”: : provided, that notice shall
be given by the sheriff by posting the times and places of
voting on the front door of the court-house, and at tke
several voting places in said county thirty days before the
day of election.

2. The manner of receiving and canvassing the ballo's
at such election on said question and making abstrac's
and returns thereof shall conform in all respects to tk.e
general election law of the state, except that the certili-
cates of the judges shall be as follows:

We hereby certify that at the election held on the ——
day of May, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, —— votes
were cast “for hog law,” and —— votes were cast “ against
hog law.”

Clerks. Judges.

3. If it shall appear from the abstracts and returns of
said election that a majority of the qualified voters of each
magisterial district voting upon said question are in favor
of the hog law, then it shall be the law of said districts;
but if a majority of the voters of any of the districts of
said county cast in said election be against the hog law,
the existing laws in regard to hogs shall be deemed to re-
main in force and effect in said districts, and all acts and
parts of acts repugnant to this act are hereby repealed in
the limits aforesaid.

4. If any swine should trespass upon any lands in the
limits of the districts accepting the hog law aforesaid the
owner or manager of said animals shall be liable for all
damage or injury done by the said animals to the owner
of crops or lands upon which they may trespass, whether
the said animals wander from the premises of the owner
in the county or district in which the trespass was com-
mitted or from another county or district, and whether any
such lands be enclosed by a lawful fence or not.

5. The damages and awards in all cases arising under
this act shall be ascertained in the manner and under the
laws now in force for trespass and damage.

6. The result of the election herein provided for shall be
certified by the proper officers of election to the judge of
the county court of said county, and shall be entered by
the said judge in the order-book of said court within ten
days after the receipt of such certificate of the result of
the canvass of such voting, and a copy of said order so en-
tered shall be posted upon the front door of the court-house
of said county.

7. All acts and parts of acts repugnant to this act are
hereby repealed.

8. This act shall be in force from its passage, and the
result of the election herein provided shall be in force
thirty days from the entry by the said judge of the order
herein required.