Chap. 94.—An ACT to authorize a vote in the city of Danville and town of
Neapolis upon the question of annexing and uniting said city and said town
in one city.

Approved January 21, 1896.

Whereas the councils of Danville and Neapolis desire to submit to
the decision of the qualified voters of said city and town the question
of annexing and uniting the same in one city upon the following
general plan, namely:

1. That Danville and Neapolis shall be annexed and united as one
city, under the name of the “city of Danville,” the new city, eo
formed, taking all the assets and assuming and providing for all the
indebtedness and liabilities of the present city and town by equal
and uniform taxation. os

2. That the territory now embraced in Neapolis, shall constitute
one or more wards in the new city, as may be ascertained to be
proper, and shal! have in the council thereof equal representation.ac-
cording to population as with the other wards of said city; shall
preserve its public school system and the advantages thereof, accord-
ing to the state law, and that no license for the sale of intoxicating
liquors therein shall be granted by the corporation court of the city
of Danville until it shall be clearly shown in some proper and legal
way that public sentiment and a majority of the registered voters of
said territory shall be in favor of such licensing and sale of intoxi-
cating liquors, but the inhabitants of said territory shall not at any
time vote upon the licensing and sale of intoxicating liquors in the
other wards of said new city, or in the said new city at large.

3. That the councils of Danville and Neapolis apply to the general
assembly of Virginia for such legislation as may be deemed neces-
sary and proper to carry into effect such annexation and union on
the first day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-six. Therefore,

Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, as follows:

First. That the judge of the corporation court for the city of Dan-
ville, when thereunto requested by the councils of Danville and
Neapolis, shall order, in term time, or in vacation, a special election
to be held in Danville and in Neapolis, on the day named in said
order, and after at least twenty days’ notice thereof, to determine
whether said city and said town shall be annexed and united in ac-
cordance with the general plan above set out.

Second. Said special election shall be by ballot, and the ballots
shall have printed upon them, respectively, “ for annexation” and
“against annexation.”

Third. If in Danville and Neapolis, ‘each a majority of the duly
yaalified voters, voting at such special election, shall vote for annexa-
on, the question shall he determined in favor of annexation, but if
in said Danville and Neapolis, or either of them, a majority of such
voters, voting, shall vote against annexation, the question shall be
determined against such annexation.

Fourth. The manner of holding and the manner of receiving and
tanvassing the ballots cast at said special election, and of making
returns of the results thereof, shall conform to the general election
laws of the state, as the same existed prior to the passage of the
act of the sixth March, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, entitled
“An act to provide for the method of voting by ballot,” and except
as herein otherwise provided.

Fifth. The certificate of the judges of election shall be in the fol-
lowing form:

We hereby certify that at the election, held in

at precinct , on the day of
ighteen hundred and ninety-six, the number of electors at this
lection amounts to that votes were cast for

annexation and _- votes against annexation.
Sixth. The results of the election herein provided for shall be cer-
tified by the proper officers of said election to the judge of the.cor-
poration court of Danville, and shall be entered by the direction of
said judge in the order book of said court within ten days after the
receipt of such certificate of the result of the canvass of such voting,
and copies thereof by the clerk of said court shall be certified to the
councils of Danville and Neapolis.

Seventh. Danville and Neapolis shall each pay the costs of its own
said election. .

Kighth. This act shall go into effect from its passage.