Chap. 194.—An ACT to amend section 15, chapter 7, Code of 1878, as
amended by an act approved March 81, 1876, in regard to registration
of voters.

Approved February 26, 1884.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section fifteen, chapter seven of the Code of eighteen hundred
and seventy-three, as amended by an act approved March
thirty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
§15. The common council or board of trustees of each city
-or town having more than five thousand inhabitants, shall
appoint for each ward as many voting places or precincts as
they may from time to time deem necessary, and shall pre-
scribe and cause to be published the boundaries of such voting
place of the precinct wherein he lives: provided however,
that every person offering to vote shall have been a resident
of the ward in which he offers to vote for thirty days next
preceding any election at which he offers to vote: provided
that when any voter removes from one ward or voting pre-
cinct to another, within thirty days of an election, it shall be
lawful for him to vote in the ward or voting precinct from
which he removed, until he has acquired the right to vote in
the ward or voting precinct to which he removes: provided
that in case of the lawful change or rearrangement of the
wards or voting precincts, it shall be the duty of the registrar
of each ward to transfer at once and without application,
every voter in the ward or voting precinct in which he is
placed or thrown by such change or rearrangement of wards
or voting precincts, and thenceforth such voter shall vote in
the ward or voting precinct into which he is so placed or
thrown, without having resided therein thirty days: and
provided further, that in case of the rearrangement of wards
or voting precincts, it shall be the duty of the registrar of
the old ward or voting precinct to make new copies of regis-
tration books after the transfers have been made to the new
wards or voting precinets. For such services as may be re-
quired under this section, the council or board of trustees of
the citv or town shall make suitable allowance.
2. This act shall be in force from its passave.