Chap. 278.—An ACT to provide for submitting the question of liquor
licenses or no liquor licenses to the qualified voters of Warren and
Clarke counties, and to the qualified voters of each magisterial dis-
trict in said counties, on the Tuesday succeeding the first Monday in
November, 1880, and every two years thereafter.

Approved March 9, 1880.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
t shall be the duty of the officers conducting the elections in
che counties of Warren and Clarke, on the Tuesday succeeding
che first Monday in November, eighteen hundred and eighty,
and every two years thereafter, to prepare a separate ballot-
pox for each of the several voting precincts in the said counties,
in which shall be deposited the ballots of the then qualified
voters who may desire to vote upon the question of license for
the sale of intoxicating liquors in the said counties, or any
magisterial district thereof. ‘The ballots shall be respectively
as follows: ‘ For license for the sale of intoxicating liquors ;”
‘* Against license for the sale of intoxicating liquors.” It shall
be the duty of the sheriff of the county of Warren, and the
duty of the sheriff of the county of Clarke to post notices of
said election at every voting place or precinct within their re-
spective counties, not less than twenty days preceding said
election.

2. The manner of receiving and canvassing the ballots at
such elections on said questions and making returns and
abstracts thereof, shall conform in all respects to the require-
ments of the general election law of the state, except that the
certificate of the judges shall be as follows:

We hereby certify that at the election held on the day
of ; votes were cast for license for sale of intoxi-
cating liquors, and votes were cast against license for
the sale of intoxicating liquors.

o Db Clerks.
E. F.,
G. H., > Judges.
J.K,,

And the county canvassers of the returns made to the clerk’s
office of their respective counties shall canvass these returns in
like manner as other election returns and certify for each dis-
trict in their respective counties the votes cast for and against
license respectively, and for and against license in the said
counties ; a copy of which shall be laid before the county court
by the clerk thereof at the next term thereafter.

3. If it appear from the abstracts and returns of any such
election that in either of the said counties a majority of votes
have been cast against license for the sale of intoxicating
liquors, then no license shall be granted to any person for the
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sale of such liquors, and any person who shall sell any intoxi
cating liquors in the said county shall incur the penalty pre
scribed by the general law for selling wine, ardent spirits, mal
liquors, or any mixture of any of them without a license therefor

4. But if it appear from the abstracts and returns of any sucl
election that in either of the said counties a majority of vote:
have been cast in favor of license, and that a majority of vote:
have been cast against license in any district or districts of the
said counties then no licenses for such sale in any of the dis
tricts so voting shall be granted, and any person who shall sel
any intoxicating liquors in any such district shall incur all the
penalties prescribed by the general law for selling wine, ardent
spirits, malt liquors, or any mixture of any of them without s
license therefor.

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