CHAP. 82.—An ACT to provide for submitting the question of liquor
licenses or no liquor licenses to the qualified voters of Loudoun
county and to the qualified voters of each magisterial district in
said county.

Approved February 16, 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 Lov-
doun county, at any regular election in the said county, upon
petition of fifty voters of the said county, to order an election
to be held in the said county and in each district thereof on
the question of liquor license or no liquor license. And the
county judge shall, within ten days after the receipt of the said
petition, certify that fact to the sheriff of the said county, and
it shall be his duty to post at each voting place in the said
county notice of the said election, and also to publish the same
in one or more papers of the said county not less than one
month prior to the day of said election.

2. That it shall be the duty of officers conducting the elec-
tions of said county, after they shall have received notice of a

vote to be taken on the license question, to prepare a separate —

ballot-box for each voting precinct in the said county, 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 in-
toxicating liquors in the said county or district. The ballots
shall be respectively as follows: ‘‘For license for the sale of
intoxicating liquors ;” “Against license for the sale of intoxi-
cating liquors.”

3. The manner of receiving and canvassing the ballots at
said election on said questions, and making returns and ab-
stracts 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 intoxicating liquors, and ——
votes were cast against license for the sale of intoxicating
liquors.

a > Clerks.
KE. F.,
G. H., ( Judges.
J. K.,

And the county canvassers of the returns made to the clerk’s
office shall canvass these returns in like manner as other elec-
tion returns, and certify for each district the votes cast for and
against license respectively, and for and against license in the

said county, a copy of which shall be laid before the county

court by the clerk at the next term thereafter.

4. If it appear from the abstracts and returns of any such >

election that in the said county 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 sale of such
liquors, and any person who shall sell any intoxicating liquors
in the said county shall incur the penalty prescribed by the
general law for selling wine, ardent spirits, malt liquors, or any
mixture of them, without a license therefor.

5. But if it appear from the abstracts and returns of any
such election that in the said county a majority of votes have
been cast in favor of license, and that a majority of votes have
been cast against license in any district or districts of the said
county, then no licenses for such sale in any of the districts
so voting shall be granted, and any person who shall sell any
intoxicating liquors in any such district shall incur all the pen-
alties prescribed by the general law for selling wine, ardent
spirits, malt liquors, or any mixture of them, without a license
therefor.

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