Chap. 217.—An ACT to submit to the voters of Madison, in Amherst
county, the question of the repeal of the act to incorporate said
town, approved March 3, 1879, and repealing said act if a majority
of the voters should be in favor of said repeal.

Approved March 6, 1880.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
it shall be the duty of the officers legally appointed to conduct
elections in the town of Madison, in the county of Amherst, to
open polls at the place or places of voting in said town on the
fourth Thursday in April, eighteen hundred and eighty, for the
purpose of ascertaining the sense of the qualified voters of said
town upon the question of the repeal of the act approved third
of March, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, entitled an act
to incorporate the town of Madison, in the county of Amherst.
The ballots of the then qualified voters of said town who may
desire to vote upon such question shall be deposited by such
officers in the ballot-box, and shall be respectively as follows:
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“For the repeal of the charter of the town of Madison,” and
‘Against the repeal of the charter of the town of Madison.”
It shall be the duty of the mayor of said town to post notices
of such election at the voting places in said town for not less
than fifteen days preceding such election.

2. The manner of receiving the ballots, conducting said elec-
tion, and canvassing and making return of votes so cast, shall
conform to the general law, except as otherwise provided in
chapter fifty-four of the Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-
three, in reference to elections in towns having less than five
thousand inhabitants.

3. At the close of the election, which shall be at sunset of
the day thereof, the persons conducting and superintending
the election shall count the ballots and make duplicate returns
of the result. One of the said returns with the ballots, sealed
up, shall be returned to the clerk’s office of the county court of
Amherst, and the other shall be returned to the council of said
town, and recorded in the record-book of said council. One of
the poll-books shall be put under cover by the persons conduct-
ing said election, and sealed and delivered to the clerk of the
said county court, snd the other poll-book shall be delivered to
the council of said town. The return made by said officers
conducting said election as aforesaid shall be as follows:

We hereby’certify that at the election held ;
votes were cast for the repeal of the act approved third of
March, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, entitled an act to
incorporate the town of Madison, in the county of Amherst,

and votes were cast against the repeal of said act.
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The clerk of the county court of Amherst shall, at the next
term of said court, lay before it a copy of the return so made
to his office, which shall be entered on the order-book of said
court; and if it appear from the said return of such election
so held as aforesaid, that at said election that a majority of the
votes cast upon the question has been cast for the repeal of the
act approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine,
entitled an act to incorporate the town of Madison, in the
county of Amherst, the said court shall enter such fact of
record in its order-book, and certify a copy of such order to
the council of said town of Madison, who shall enter the same
in the record-book of said council, and thereupon said act
shall, as of and from the date of such order of court, be and
is hereby repealed, and all powers and autaority thereby con-
ferred revoked and annulled.

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