Chap. 498.—An ACT to submit to the voters of Grayson county the question of
a subscription to the capital stock of the Grayson and Carroll electric railway
company.

Approved February 24, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the county
court of Grayson, at the request of the president and board of directors
of the Grayson and Carroll electric railway company, may make and
enter an order requiring the proper officers and judges of election in
said county, at a time to be designated in said order, not less than thirty
days from date of said order, to open the polls at each voting precinct
in said county, and take the sense of the qualified voters on the ques-
tion whether or not the board of supervisors shall subscribe the amount
stated in the order, not exceeding thirty thousand dollars, by the said
county to the capital stock of the Grayson and Carroll electric railway
company. The election herein provided for shall be held according to
law in force at time of holding the same, except so far as it may be
modified or amended by this act.

2. If said election shall be held at any other time than at a general
election for state or county officers, the said Grayson and Carroll electric
railway company shall, thirty davs prior to such special election, de-
posit with the county court of Grayson a sum sufficient to cover the
costs of said election.

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