CHAP. 400.—An ACT to allow the voters {n a certain portion of
Augusta county to vote on a stock law.

Approved February 25, 1892.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That it shall be lawful for the county court of Augusta
county, or the judge thereof in vacation, upon the petition
of at least one hundred resident freeholders of said county,
who reside within that portion of Augusta county lying
between the Shenandoah Valley branch of the Norfolk and
Western railroad on the east, extending from the county
line of Rockingham to the county line of Rockbridge, and
a line on the west beginning at the Rockbridge county line
on the Middlebrook and Brownsburg pike, and running
with said road to George Rose’s shop; thence with that
road to St. Mark’s church; thence with the Walker’s creek
road by Shermarriah church down the Summerdean road
to the road forking towards Middlebrook; thence along a
road parallel with Middle river to Joseph B. Trimble’s mill ;
thence along a road known as the Mountain road to the
Parkersburg pike; thence with the Buffalo gap and Church-
ville road to the line between Baxter Crawford and C. A.
Bear; thence with a straight line by Baxter Crawford to
the Shirley house; thence with the road to Farrer’s house;
thence along the Lone Fountain road to Lone Fountain
post-office ; thence west with the Churchvilleand Jenning’s
Gap road to S. B. Allan’s house; thence with the Parnas-
sus road to the Warm Springs and Harrisonburg road to Ja-
cob Swartz’s house; thence with said road to Stribling
springs; thence with the Mount Solon road to Walton’s
shop; thence along a county road north of North River
gap road; thence following North River to the house of
C. Anderson ; thence north via Emanuel church and Moun-
tain View school-house on a road known as the Mountain
road; thence to the Rockingham county line, to submit to
the qualified voters in the aforesaid described portion of
said county, the question as to whether there shall or shal]
not be a stock law within the aforesaid boundary. Said
election shall be held at some time during the month of
April, eighteen hundred and ninety-two. No incorporated
town shall be allowed to vote in this election. The said
court, or the judge thereof in vacation, shall prescribe the
day and manner in which said election shall be held. If
it shall appear from the returns thereof that a majority of
the votes cast in such election are in favor of a stock law,
then it shall be unlawful for the owner or manager of any
horse, mule, cow, sheep, swine, cattle, or any other domestic
animal, to permit said animals to go at large upon any high-
way or uninclosed land in said boundary as before de-
scribed, from and after a date to be fixed by said court, or
the judge thereof in vacation, not exceeding three months
from the date of said election. Any violation of this act
shall subject the owner or manager of such animal to the
provisions of sections two thousand and forty-two, two
thousand and forty-nine, and two thousand and fifty
of the code of Virginia. Nothing in this act shall be con-
strued as exempting any railroad corporation from the
present laws as to killing or injury to any live stock within
the aforesaid boundary. This act shall apply only to the
territory hereinbefore described.
2. This act shall take effect from its passage.