Chap. 185.—An ACT to submit the question of a stock law to the voters of
Manassas district, in the county of Prince William.

' Approved January 26, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assemblv of Virginia, That an election
hall be held in the Manassas district, Prince William county, on the
ourth Thursday in May, nineteen hundred and one, by the judges of
lection in said district, at the several voting places therein, to enable
the qualified voters of said district to declare by their votes whether or
not they will agree to a law to be known as the stock law: provided, that
notice shall be given by the sheriff posting the time and place of voting
on the front door of the court-house, and at the several voting places in
said district, thirty days before the day of election: and provided further,
that a separate ballot-box shall be used in which alone all ballots voted
on this question shall be deposited.

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

We hereby certify that the election held at —
votes were cast for stock law, and ——————— votes were cast against
stock law.

Clerks, Judges.

And except, further, that every elector shall vote by ballot which he
himself shall provide, and ‘each person offering to vote shall deliver a
single ballot to one of the judges in the presence of the other two judges.
The ballot shall be a white ticket, and containing on the face of it,
written or printed, the words, “ for stock law,” or the words “ against
stock law,” according as the elector may elect. The judges to whom any
ballot is delivered shall, upon receipt thereof, pronounce with an audible
voice the name of the person from whom the ballot is received, and
if the name of such person is found upon the registration book, and there
be no objection made, the said judge shall, without opening said ballot,
or permitting the same to be examined, except to ascertain whether it
is a single ballot, deposit the same in the ballot-box; whereupon the name
of the elector shall be checked on the registration book by one of the
judges and entered by the clerks of election on the poll-book and cor-
rectly numbered in accordance with the number of electors theretofore
recorded.

3. If it shall appear from the abstracts and returns of said elections
that a majority of the qualified voters of said district voting upon said
question are in favor of the stock law, then it shall be the law of said
district; and all acts and parts of acts repugnant to this act be, and are
hereby, repealed in the limits aforesaid.

4. If any stock should trespass upon any lands in the limits afore-
said, the owner or manager of said animals shall be liable for all damage
or injury done by the said animals to the owner of the 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 committed, or from another county or district.

5. The damage 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. This act shall be in force from its passage.