An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-299, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to devices signalling intention to turn or stop and rules therefor.
Volume 1968 Law 99
Volume | 1897/1898 |
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Law Number | 849 |
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Law Body
Chap. 849.—An ACT to amend an act entitled ‘An aet to allow the qualified
voters of Charlemont district, in Bedford county, to vote on a fence law, ap-
proved February 12, 189s."’
Approved March 3, 1498.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section one
of an act entitled an act to allow the freehold voters of Charlemont dis-
trict, in Bedford county, to vote on a fence law, approved February
twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, be amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:
Wt: § 1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That it shall
be the duty of the county court of Bedford county, or the judge thereof
in vacation, as soon after the passage of this act as it can be conveniently
done to submit to the qualified voters of said district, the question
whether they shall have the fence law as it existed in said district on
the first day of September, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, or
whether they sha]l have the no fence law.
2. A writ of election shall issue to the sheriff of said county, and be
delivered to the said sheriff at least twenty days before the day desig-
nated for the holding of said election, and said sheriff shall give notice
of the time of holding said election by posting printed hand-bills at the
voting precincts in said districts, and at such other public places in said
district as he may deem necessary to give publicity thereto. The said
election shall be held and conducted by the election officers in the man-
ner prescribed by law.
3. Ballots shall be provided upon which shall be printed or written
‘‘fence law and no-fence law.’’ If the voter desires to vote for the
fence law he shali erase no-fence law, written or printed on the ballot, by
passing a pen or pencil through it. The vote so taken shall be counted,
certified and returned tothe office of the clerk of the county court of
said county, and the commissioners of election shall meet on the second
day after the said election at the clerk’s office and ascertain the result of
said election inthe manner prescribed by law, and the result so ascer-
tained shall be certified to the county court on the first day of the next
term thereof, and the said court shall declare the result of said election
by an order entered in the order-book.
4. This act shall be in force from its passage.