Chap. 199.—An ACT to provide for a new registration of voters for
the city of Fredericksburg. :

Approved February 24, 1886.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
there shall be a new registration of the voters of the city ot
Fredericksburg, to be made at such time during the year
eighteen hundred and eighty-six as may be determined by the
council of said city, by which said voters shall be registered
only on the book of the ward or election precinct in which they
respectively reside. Notice of the time and place or places for
such new registration shall be given by said council, by publi-
cation in the newspapers of said city, and by printed handbills
posted in at least ten public places in each of said wards or
precincts, for at least ten days prior to the beginning of such
registration.

2. The registrars of such wards or precincts shall sit for five
days at the place or places designated for such new registra-
tion, and shalJ, within five days after completing the same,
cause to be posted in two or more public places of their respect-
ive wards or precincts, printed lists of all persons admitted by
them to registration. |

3. In all other respects, except as herein provided, the du-
ties of said registrars shall be prescribed by the general regis-
tration laws of the state. The registration made under this
act shall have the same force and virtue as though made under
the said general registration laws; shall be revised, altered,
added to and amended, in the mode prescribed by said general
laws, and shall take the place of all registrations of voters
heretofore made in and for said city.

4. The secretary of the commonwealth shall furnish the
clerk of the corporation court of said city with so many regis-
tration books as may be necessary to carry out the provisions
of this act.

5. The electoral board of said city is hereby authorized and
directed to appoint, at some time prior to the first day of
March, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, a registrar for each
of the wards or precincts of said city, and said registrars shall
qualify as prescribed by the general laws of the state on the
subject; shall make said new registrations for their respective
wards or precincts; shall perform the duties and receive the
compensation prescribed by the general laws affecting regis-
trars, and hold their offices for the terms fixed by said general
laws.

6. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are
hereby repealed.

7. This act shall be in force from its passage.