Chap. 120.—An ACT to provide for a new registration in the city of
Staunton,

Approved February 27, 1&7%,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
each duly qualified registrar of the city of Staunton, shall,

on the first Puesday in May, cighteen hundred and seventy-
eight, proceed to register the names of all qualified voters
within the ward of said city for which he was appointed,
who, according to law, are entitled to registration therein,
entering, in addition to the requirements of the general reg-
istration law, in a@ separate column, the names of streets and
numbers of residences of said qualified voters, and he sball
complete said registration with seven days.

2. In transferring any qualified voter from one ward of
the city to another the registrar shall enter on the transfer
a copy of the e description of said voter taken from the regis-
tration book; but the registrar registering any voter on such
transfer shall follow the “requirements of the first section of
this act.

3. In making such registration and in all registrations
thereafter, the “paid registrars Shall in every particular, ex-
cept as hereinabove specified, be guided and controlled by
the general registration laws of the state; and the registra-
tion thus made shall have the same force, virtue, and effect
as though the same had been made undar the general regis-
tration laws of the state.

4. In all other respects, except as berein provided, the du-
ties of the registrars for the city of Staunton, shall be the
same as prescribed in the general registration laws of the
state.

5. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the pro-
visions of this act are hereby repealed.

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