Chap. 55.—An ACT providing Local Option for Lunenburg county.
Approved November 22, 1884.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
it shall be the duty of the judge of the county court of
Lunenburg county, at any regular election in said county,
upon petition of two hundred voters of said county, to order
an election to be held in said county, and in each magisterial
district thereof, on the question of liquor license or no liquor
license, and the county judge shall, within ten days after the
receipt of said petition, certify that fact to the sheriff of said
county, and it shall be his duty to post at each voting place
in said county notice of the said election, not less than one
month prior to the day of election.

2. It shall be the duty of the officers conducting the elec-
tion in said county, after they have received notice of a vote
to be taken on the license question, to prepare a separate
ballot-box for each voting precinct in 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 intoxicating liquors in said county or district. The
ballots shall be respectively as follows: “For license for sale
of intoxicating liquors”; “Against license for sale of intoxi-
caning. liquors.”

he manner of receiving and canvassing the ballots at
said election on said question 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 an 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.

A. B. G. H. > Judges.
C.D. \ Clerks. JK.

And the county canvassers of the returns made to the
clerk’s office shall canvass these returns in like manner as
other election returns, and certify for each district the vote
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 abstract and returns of any such
election, that in 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 the same in said county,
shall incur the penalty prescribed by the general law for sell-
ing wine, ardent spirits, malt liquors, or a mixture thereof,
without any license therefor.

5. But if it appear from the abstract and returns of any
such election, that in the said county a majority of votes
shall bave been cast in favor of license, and that a majority
of votes have been cast against license in any district or dis-
tricts of said county, then no license for such sale in any of
the districts so voting shall be granted, and any person who
shall sell intoxicating liquors in any such district, shall incur
all the penalties prescribed by the general Jaw for sellin
wine, ardent spirits, malt liquors, or any mixture thereof,
without a license therefor. -

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

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