Chap. 692.—An ACT to fix and regulate the time for holding elections or taking a
vote to ascertain the sense of the qualified voters of a county or counties out of
which a new county is sought to be created and established.

Approved March 3, 1898.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That where in any
general election held under the laws of the state there has been ascer-
tained by ballot the sense of the qualified voters of any county, or
counties, out of a portion, or portions, of which it is proposed or sought
to create and establish a new county as provided for by chapter thirty-
four of the code of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and a canvass of
said polls, as made by the commissioner of election for said county or coun-
ties, showsuch aggregate vote to be in the ratio of three ‘‘against the
new county’’ to one for the new county, no other vote shall be taken
in said county, or counties, for the same purpose for a period of six
years from the date of the last voteso taken.

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