CHAP. 675.—An ACT to allow the voters of the several voting
precincts of Nelson county to vote on a fence law.

Approved March 38, 1892.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That it shall be lawful for the county court of Nelson
county, or the judge thereof in vacation, upon the petition
of at least ten resident freeholders of any voting precinct
of Nelson county, to submit to the qualified voters of said
precinct the questions: First, whether the boundary lines
of each owner’s lot or tract of land shall be a lawful fence;
or second, whether a fence made of post and four rails, or
four planks, or four wires, in either case the rails, planks
or wires to be twelve inches apart, the bottom not more
than fifteen inches from the ground and the top not less
than four feet six inches from the ground; or third, whether
the law shall remain as it now is. And in submitting
said questions to be voted upon, they shall be briefly de-
scribed as follows: ‘No fence,” “ Four-rail fence,” and
‘‘Fence,” the question to be determined by the plurality
of votes given to either of the three plans. Said election
to be held and conducted at such time and place and in
such manner as said court or judge may by order pre-
acribe.

2. If it shall appear from the returns thereof that a
lurality of the voters in such election is in favor of “No
ence,” then the boundary line of each owner’s lot or tract

of land in said precinct shall be a lawful fence as to all
stock enumerated in section two thousand and forty-two
of the code of eighteen hundred and eighty seven; or if a
plurality be in favor of the “four-rail fence,” then the
same shall be a lawful fence in said precinct: provided,
however, that this act shall not be so construed as to ren-
der a Jawful fence under the general law unlawful.

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