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 | 1879/80 |
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Law Number | 178 |
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CHAP. 178.—An ACT to authorize special elections for school pur-
poses in the county of Alexandria.
Approved March 4, 1880.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
it shall be the duty of the judge of the county court of Alex-
andria county, upon the application of any district school board
in said county, to order a special election to be held in such
district, at the usual voting-places, on the fourth Thursday in
May in any year, to decide the question of a district levy for
the support of public free schools.
2. That such district school board shall, at least one month
before such fourth Thursday in May, cause to be posted at the
front door of the court-house of said county, and at the place
or places in the district at which elections are usually heid, a
notice of such election, stating how much money is required
and what levy upon property, not exceeding fifty cents on the
hundred dollars, is proposed.
3. The ballots to be used at any such election shall be,
respectively, as follows—namely: ‘For a district school levy
of cents on the one hundred dollars ;’’ ‘“‘ Against a dis-
trict school levy of cents on the one hundred dollars ;”’
and none but the then qualified voters of such district shall be
entitled to vote at such election.
4. The manner of receiving and canvassing the ballots at
such election, and making returns and abstracts thereof, shall
conform in all respects to the requirements of the general elec-
tion law of the state, except that the certificate of the judges
shall be as follows:
We hereby certify that at the election held in district
on the day of . votes were cast for a dis-
trict school levy of cents on the one hundred dollars,
and votes were cast against a district school levy
of cents on the one hundred dollars.
o bs : Clerks.
E. F.,
G. H., > Judges.
J.
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, And the county canvassers of the returns made to the clerk’s
5 office shall canvass these returns in like manner as other elec-
tion returns, and certify for such district the votes cast for and
against a district school levy, respectively, a copy of which
shall be laid before the board of supervisors of said county.
f 5. If it appear from the abstracts and returns of any such
° election that three-fourths of the votes cast are in favor of the
levy, the board of supervisors shall make it; but if it appear
that more than one-fourth of the votes cast are against the
levy, then the board of supervisors shall levy such sum for
such district as, with the county school levy, shall not exceed
twenty cents on the one hundred dollars.
6. When any election is held under this act in any year in
which the regular election for county officers takes place, a
- separate ballot-box shall be provided for each voting precinct
in such district in which to deposit the ballots mentioned in the
third section of this act.
t 7. This act shall be in force from its passage.