Chap. 353.—An ACT to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liqnors within two miles
of the city of Buena Vista.

Approved February 17, 1898.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That it shall
be unlawful for any person, corporation, or copartnership to sell or offer
to sell by sample or representation or otherwise, any wine, spirituous, or
malt liquors, or any mixture thereof, within two miles of the corporate
limits of the city of Buena Vista; that is to say, within the territory
bounded on the one (inner) side by the corporate limits of the city of
Buena Vista, and on the other (outer) side by connecting lines parallel
with and two miles distant from said corporate limits.

2. And no license shall be granted for the sale of any wine, spirituous,
or malt liquors, or any mixture thereof, within the territory aforesaid.

3. If any person, corporation, or copartnership sell or offer to sell, by
sample or representation or otherwise, any wine, spirituous, or malt
liquors, or any mixture thereof, within the territory aforesaid, such per-
son, corporation, or copartnership shall be Nable to all the penalties 1m-
posed by the statute law of this commonwealth for the sale of spirituous
liquors or ardent spirits without license.

4. The provisions of this act shall be held to apply to any distiller of
alcoholic liquors and to any manufacturer of wine or malt liquors making
sale thereof within the territory aforesaid, but nothing in this
act. shall apply to the territory outside of the corporate limits of the
city of Buena Vista after the expiration of the time that local option
prevails in the said city of Buena Vista.

5. This act shall be in force on and after Mav first, eighteen hundred
and ninety-eight.