Chap. 60.—An ACT Providing for the Submission of the Repeal of the
Fence Law in Mount Vernon Township, Fairfax County, to the Voters
of said Township. ,

Approved February 24, 1874.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That it shall be
the duty of the several officers conducting the election to be
held in May, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, in the town-
ship of Mount Vernon, in the county of Fairfax, for officers
to be elected at that time, to prepare a separate ballot for
each voting precinct, in which shall be deposited the ballots
of the then qualified voters who shall desire to vote upon the
question of repealing the act relating to fences and for the
protection af crops, passed January twenty-six, eighteen

undred and sixty-six, within the limits of the said Mount
Vernon township; the said ballots shall be, respectively, as
follows: “For present fence law.” “Against present fence
law.”

2. It shall be the duty of the township clerk for Mount
Vernon township to give public notice of the time and places
of voting upon said questions by posting the same at the
door of the court-house of the county and at each voting
precinct in the township, and by publication in some news-
paper published in the county of Fairfax and in the city of
Alexandria, for the space of four weeks, the cost of which
shall be defrayed by the township.

3. The manner of receiving and canvassing the ballots
cast at such election on the question of repealing the act
relating to fences and for the protection of crops, passed
January twenty-six, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and
making returns and abstracts of the results thereof, shall
conform, in all respects, to the regulations prescribed by the
general election law of this state, except that the certificate
of the judges of election shall be as follows:

‘“We hereby certify that at the election held in Mount
Vernon township —— votes were cast for the present fence
law, and votes were cast against present fence law.

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4. It
question of repealing the act aforesaid in Mount Vernon
township, it shall appear that a majority of the qualified
voters of the township voting upon the question are in favor
of repealing the act, and that said majority includes a ma-
jority of the votes had by freeholders, and a majority of the
registered voters of the township, then it shall be the duty
vf the county court to declare the provisions of said act to
be inoperative and repealed in said township: provided, how-

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om such returns and abstracts of votes cast on the
ever, that said repeal shall not take effect until such time as
the county court in its discretion may determine.
5. This act shall be in force from ‘and after ita passage.