Chap. 113.—An ACT to provide for submitting the question of the sale of
liquor by a dispensary in the town of Pulaski, Virginia, to the qualified
voters of said town, and to prohibit any other election to be held in said
town upon the question of the sale of liquor therein, in any manner, within
two years after any election is held under this act.

Approved February 29, 1908.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That whenever
such of the qualified voters of the town of Pulaski, Virginia, as shall
be equal in number to one fourth of the number of the persons voting
at the preceding regular municipal election in said town shall, in term
or vacation, petition the judge of the circuit court for the county of
Pulaski for a special election in said town on the question of the sale
of liquor by the dispensary in said town, said court or judge shall
within ten days after the receipt of said petition issue a writ of election,
in which shall be fixed the day of holding such election, directed to the
sergeant of said town, whose duty it shall be forthwith to post notices
of said election at the front door of the courthouse of Pulaski county,
and at two other places in said town. He shall also give notice to the
officers charged with the duty of conducting municipal elections in said
town, but no election shall be held under the provisions of this act
within less than thirty days from the posting of such notice as afore-
said, nor within thirty days of any other regular election. Said special
election shall be held and conducted as other special elections are held
and conducted.

2. The ballots to be used in said election shall be respectively, as
follows: “For dispensary” and “Against dispensary.” The manner of
receiving and canvassing the ballots and making returns and abstracts
thereof, shall conform in all respects to the requirements of the gen-
eral election law, except that the certificate of the judges shall be as
follows:

“We hereby certify that at the election held on the

day of
,——, votes were cast for dispensary and
votes were cast against dispensary.
3. All elections held under this act shall be held at the place, or
places, where municipal elections are held in said town.

The proper official canvassers of the general election returns for
municipal elections in said town shall canvass these returns in like
manner as other election returns, and they shall certify the number of
votes cast for and against the dispensary respectively to the town council
of said town, and a copy of such certificate shall be laid before the circuit
court and at its next term.

4. If it appears from the abstracts and returns that a majority of
the votes cast at such election were against the sale of liquor by the
dispensary, then no wines, spiritous or malt liquors or any mixture
thereof shall thereafter be sold within said town, except that the man-
agers of said dispensary shall have sixty days in which to dispose of the
stock on hand, either by retail or wholesale.

But if it appears from said abstracts and returns that a majority
of the votes cast at such election were in favor of the sale of liquor by
the dispensary, then the said dispensary and the sale of liquor thereby
may be continued as under the act providing for the holding of an elec-
tion in the town of Pulaski on the question of a liquor dispensary in
said town, and so forth, approved the eighth day of March, nineteen
hundred and four, acts of general assembly, nineteen hundred and four.

After any such election has been held in said town there shall not be
another election held under this act, or upon the question of the sale
of liquor in any manner in said town within two years.

5. All acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.