Chap. 561.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section fifty-eight of the charter of
the town of Basie City.

Approved February 28, 1898.

Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
Atty -cight of an act entitled “An act to amend and re-enact an act entitled
an act to incorporate the town of Basic City,’? approved March third,
eighteen hundred and ninety, be amended and re-enacted so as to read
as follows:

€58. The qualified voters of Basic City shall have the right to deter-
mine by vote whether the sale of Hquor shall be licensed in the limits of
said town in the manner provided ‘for submitting the question of
liquor license to the qualified voters of counties, corporations and magis-
terial districts’? by chapter twenty-five of the code and amendments
thereof; and the act of the legislature entitled an act ‘* to authorize the
voters of Waynesboro and vicinity to determine by popular vote on the
propriety of selling intoxicating hquors within certain limits,’? approved
February ninth, civhteen hundred and elghty-two, shall not apply to
the territory within the limits of Basic City, but such territory shall be
wholly exempt from the operation of said act. And if it appear from
the abstracts and returns of any election legally held for the purpose of
ascertaining the sense of the qualified voters of said town upon such
question that a majority of the votes cast, have been cast ‘‘ for licensing
the sale of intoxieating liquors,’? and the town council shall have
designated and defined by bounds a certain portion or portions of said
town convemlently and easily poheed, to which the sale of liquors shall
be confined, then upon appheation to the court having jurisdiction
thereof, in the manner provided by law, by any applicant who is a fit
person to conduct such business, for license to sell wine, spirituous or
malt liquors, or anv mixture thereof, at any place within the town linits
set apart as aforesaid by said town council for said purpose, then said
court may grant such license: provided, however, that no person residing
outside of the corporate limits of said town shall be made a party
defendant on the hearing of sueh appheation unless said party own
property within the corporate limits of said town that will be affected
by the decision. No license shall be granted to sell quor at any place
inside the corporate limits of Basic City that is distant less than six
hundred yards from the corporate limits of Waynesboro as they ran the
first day of December, eighteen hundred and nincty-four.

All laws in conflict with this section in so far as they pertain to the
tow n of Basic City are hereby declared to be inoperative.

This act shall be in force from its passage.