Chap. 835.—An ACT to submit question of hog law to the voters of Pungoteague
district. in the county of Accomac,

Approved March 3, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That on petition
of thirty or more qualified voters of Pungoteague district, in Accomac
county, to the judge of the county court of said county the said judge,
during term time or in vacation, may order an election in said district

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district. The ballots shall be, respectively, ‘‘ For hog law,’”’ ‘‘ Against
how law ’’: provided, that notice shall be given by the sheriff or consta-
ble of the district, by posting the time of said election at all the voting
precincts where elections are held in such districts, at least thirty days
before the day of election.

2. The manner of receiving and canvassing the ballots in such elec-
tion on said question and making abstracts and returns thereof shall
conform in all respects to the general election law of the state, except
that the certificates of the judge shall be as follows:

‘¢ We hereby certify that at the election held on the day of ;
eighteen hundred and ninety votes were cast ‘For hog
law’ and votes were cast ‘ Against hog law.’ |

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3. If it shall appear from abstracts and returns of said election that
a majority of the qualified voters of said magisterial district are in favor
of the hog law, then it shall be the law of said district, but if a major-
ity of the votes so cast in said election be cast against the hog law the
existing Jaws shall be deemed to remain in force and effect in regard to
hogs in said district.

4. If any swine should trespass upon the lands in the limits of
Pungoteague, in event said hog law be adopted by the district, the
owner or manager of said animals shall be liable for all damages or in-
jury done by said animals to the owner of crops or lands upon which
they may trespass, whether the said animals wander from the premises
of the owner in the county or district in which the trespass was com-
mitted or from another county or district, and whether any such lands
be enclosed by a lawful fence or not.

5. The damages and awards in all cases arising under this act shall
be ascertained in the manner and under the laws now in force for tres-
pass and damage.

6. The result of the election herein provided for shall be certified by
the proper officers of election to the judge of the county court of said
county, and shall be entered by 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 a copy of said order shall be posted
upon the front door of the courthouse of said county.

7. <All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby
repealed.