Chap. 882.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act of the general
assembly of Virginia, approved February 9, 1598S, entitled an act to allow the
voters of Chesterfield county to vote on a fence law.

Approved March 3, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
five of an act approved February ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-
eight, entitled an act to allow the voters of Chesterfield county to vote
an a fannre law he amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
§ 5. The provisions of this act shall not apply in any way to
those portions of Manchester, Bermuda and Matoaca magisterial dis-
tricts in said county which constitute the present no-fence district of
said county, and which is exempted from the operation of the law of
enclosures, and which no-fence district is included within metes and
bounds and described as follows:

Commencing on James river at the termination of the northern line
of the land formerly owned by H. T. Drewry; thence along said line to
the Richmond and Petersburg railroad; thence south along said railroad
to the line of the Farmville and Powhatan railroad; thence westward
along said last-named railroad to Brander’s bridge road; thence south-
ward along Brander’s bridge road to Swift creek; thence eastward down
Swift creek to the Richmond and Petersburg railroad; thence south
along said Richmond and Petersburg railroad to Gilliam’s line at the
Conjuror’s Neck road; thence along said Gilliam’s line to the turnpike;
thence southward along said turnpike to the northern line of the city of
Petersburg, near Campbell’s bridge; thence east along the line of the
city of Pete ‘rsburg and the north bank of the Appomattox river to its
junction with James river, and thence along the southern bank of James
river to the point of beginning, at the termination of the northern line
of the land formerly owned by H. T. Drewry, near Manchester.

At the said election to be held under this act the voters residing in
the no-fence district section shall not vote, as they have no interest
therein, but the judges of election, when holding said election, shall
only take the votes of the voters residing outside thereof, and make and
certify their returns accordingly, and the result of said election shall
only affect and be treated as affecting the portions of the several magis-
terial districts not included in the said no-fence district.

The judges of election shall have power to administer oaths to intend-
ing voters, and further to inquire and ascertain whether or not the said
voters reside in said existing no-fence district, and any qualified voter of
such district shall have the right to challenge all such votes not right-
fully cast, and the same, if requested, shall be certified to the county
judge on appeal, and if found to have been illegally cast the said judge,
after ascertaining the way the said votes were cast, shall strike the same
from the abstracts returned, and alter the totals therein returned accord-
ingly.

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