Chap. 770.—An ACT to submit the question of a stock law to the voters of
Occoquan district, in the county of Prince William.

Approved March 6, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an elec-
tion shall be held in the Occoquan district, Prince William county, on
the fourth Thursday in May, nineteen hundred and one, by the judges
of election 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: pro-
vided, 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 pro-
vided 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 elec-
tion on said question, and making abstracts and returns thereof, shal.
conform in all respects to the general election law of the state, excep!
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 agains
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 :
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 “ agains
stock law,” according as the elector may elect. The judges to whom an’
ballot is delivered shall, upon receipt thereof, pronounce with an audibl
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
correctly numbered in accordance with the number of electors thereto-
fore 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 Jands in the limits afore-
said, the owner or manager of said animals shall be liable for all damages
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.

‘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 trespass
and damage.

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