Chap. 161.—An ACT to authorize the council of the town of Salem to order an
‘lection to take the serfSe of the qualified voters of said town as to the sub-
cription by said town of money to the summer school of methods, and to
\uthorize said council to make said subscription if same be authorized by
he vote in said election.

Approved February 7, 1894.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
uncil of the town of Salem may make an order each year requir-
g the sergeant and the judges of election at such times, not less
an thirty days from date of said order, which times shall be desig-
ted therein, to open a poll and take the sense of the qualified
ters of said town whether the said council shall subscribe a sum
t exceeding five hundred dollars each year to the summer schoo.
of methods. The judges of election, after taking an oath to faith-
fully perform the duties assigned them, shall open polls at the wari.
ous voting places in said town to be designated in said order, and
shall conduct said election and close said polls as required by law
in other elections. At said election each qualified voter who shal
approve said subscription shall deposit a ballot on which 1s writter
or printed “For subscription,” and each voter opposed to said sub.
scription shall deposit a ballot on which is written or printed
“Against subscription,” and each ballot shall be endorsed with the
name of the voter. The judges of election at the several voting
places shall, immediately after the closing of the polls at each of
said places, count the ballots deposited, and shall, within two dave
after said election, make return to the presiding officer of said coun-
cil of the number of votes cast for the subscription and the num-
ber of votes cast against subscription, and shall return to and de-
posit with the clerk of said council, in separate sealed packages, the
ballots for and against the subscription; and the presiding officer
of said council shall appoint four citizens of said town, who, with
the clerk, shall constitute a board of commissioners, whose duty it
shall be, within two days thereafter, fo meet and, after taking an
oath before him to faithfully perform their duty, open said packages
of ballots, count the same, correct the return if necessary, and ascer-
tain and report how many of said ballots were cast by freeholders
and how many by non-freeholders for and against said subscription,
respectively; which said report, signed by a majority of said board,
shall be entered on the record book of said council.

2. If it appear by the report of the board of commissioners that
three-fifths of the qualified voters of said town voting upon the
question, and the said three-fifths includes a majority of the votes
cast by the freeholders at such election and a majority of the regis-
tered voters of said town, the said council shall have authority to
make the subscription, not exceeding five hundred dollars, to said
summer school of methods for the year or years that may be authorized
by the vote taken and reported as hereinbefore provided.

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