CHAP. 518.—An ACT to allow the voters of Shenandoah county
or any magisterial district thereof to vote on a stock law.

Approved March 1, 1892.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That it shall be lawful for the county court of Shenan-
doah county, or the judge thereof, in vacation, upon the
petition of at least one hundred resident freeholders of any
magisterial district in said county, to submit to the quali-
field voters in the aforesaid county or any magisterial dis-
trict thereof, the question as to whether there shall be or
not a stock law in said county or any magisterial district
thereof.

2. The said election shall be held at some time during
the month of May, eighteeen hundred and ninety-two,
No incorporated town shall be allowed to vote in this elec-
tion. The court 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 highway or
unenclosed land unless in charge of a herdsman.

3. 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.

4, Nothing in this act shall be construed as exempting
any railroad corporation from the present laws as to the
killing or injury to any live stock within said county or
part thereof where stock law is adopted to which only this
act shall apply.

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