Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-03-26
THE COMING FIGHT.
AN ORDER ISSUED FOR A L0CAL-0PTIoN
ELECTION IN MANCHESTER.
They Will Vote on the Same Day that We
Vote Here-Gathering OF the
Temperance Clans.

Judge French, OF the Corporation
Court of Manchester, having been mott
fed while in Petersburg on his way t.
Prince George that the anti-local-option-
lists Of Manchester wished to present
petition for an election. returned to
Manchester on the ii o'clock train yes
terday morning. Soon after his arrival
Messrs. Alfred Bowen, ID. L. Toney,
and Hon. Thomas NJ. Miller presented
the petition, with accompanying cer-
tifcates, copy Of which was pub
lished in yesterdays Dispatch. The
registrars OF the different wards (the
First excepted) were sent for, and the
Judge, in the presence of few specta-
tors, compared the names signed to the
petition with those on the registration
books until he was satisfied that there
were more names Of duly-qualified
voters attached to the petition than
were required by law as a precedent ne
cessary to ordering the election.
THE ELECTION ORDERED.
The Judge then had the following or
der entered:
Upon the petition this day presented
to me Of 5S2 of the legally qualified
voters Of the city of Manchester 1861
being one fourth of the votes Q,4il)
cast at the last November electionl for
a special election to determine the ques-
tion Of liquor license or no liquor Ii
cense; and being Of the opinion that
this question should be determined be.
fore the issuing Of liquor licenses for the
coming license year, it is therefore or
dered that a special election be held at
the several voting precincts in this city
on Monday, April Goth next, to be held
in pursuance of the provisions of the
act approved February %, 1856.
THE WRIT.
The following writ was then issue ! {:
Commonwealth Of Virginia:
To the Sergeant of the City Of Manches-
ter-Greeting
Whereas by an act Of the Legisla-
ture approved February %, 1856, it is
made the duty Of the undersigned,
whenever such a number of the quail
fed voters as constitute one fourth in
number Of the voters voting at the pre-
ceding regular November election in
this city shall petition, to order a spe-
cial election on the question Of " liquor
license" or "nO liquor license -; and
whereas a petition has been presented
to the undersigned by $50 duly-qualltied
voters of said city, praying that 10 ac-
cOrdance with the law passed by the Le
gislature of Virginia at its last session
a proper writ for an election to be held
in the said city on the question Of
" liquor license" or "no liquor
license" and it appearing to the salts
faction of the undersigned that said
voters constitute more than one fourth
Of the number Of the voters voting at
the last regular November election in
this city:
Now. therefore, |, ). BaSsett French,
judge Of the Corporation or lIustings
Court of the city of Manchester, being
thereto required by law, do, in the
name Of the Commonwealth. hereby
require you to cause a special election
to be held in the said city on the Goth
of April, lSSG, to determine the ques-
tion OF " liquor license " or" no liquor
license" in the said city Of Manches-
ter, in accordance with said act.
In testimony whereof |, S. Bassett
French, judge Of the Corporation or
lIustiDgs Court Of the said city of Man
chester, have hereunto set my hand
this 2jth day of March. 1856.
Signed S. BAssETT FRENCH,
JUDGE.