
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, March 12, 1995                   TAG: 9503130090
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B5   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: WILLIAMSBURG                                 LENGTH: Short

DELEGATE HAS TO PAY SIGN MONEY

A graduate student has won a partial victory in his quest to collect a political sign ``bounty'' from a state delegate.

Andrew Madsen sued Del. George Grayson for $129.50, claiming the James City County Democrat owed him for collecting more than 500 political signs after the November election.

General District Judge Frederick P. Aucamp on Friday awarded Madsen $85 plus $16 in court costs.

Madsen, an anthropology student at the College of William and Mary, collected the signs after reading a story in the Virginia Gazette newspaper that Grayson would pay a 25-cent bounty for each sign turned in at his legislative office.

Grayson had intended the offer only for civic, church and nonpolitical youth groups, according to court testimony.

- Associated Press

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