CHAP. 473.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 13 of chapter 158
of Acts of Assembly, 1883-’84, in relation to choosing registrars an
judges of election, &c.

Approved March 6, 1886.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section thirteen of chapter one hundred and fifty-eight of .Acts
of extra-session of the general assembly, eighteen hundred and
eighty-three and’ eighty-four, be amended and re-enacted, so
as to read as follows: ,

$13. The said electoral board shall provide for a new regis-
tration of voters for any election district or precinct of their re-
spective counties or cities, whenever in their opinion the same
may have become necessary by reason of the loss or destruc-
tion of the registration books (or when the said books are so
mutilated, blotted, defaced, or otherwise in such a condition as
tp render it difficult, or troublesome or unsafe, to further use
them); and in that case the registrars shall give notice, by
printed or written handbills, posted in at least five places in the
election district, at least sixty days before the day of registra-
tion of the time and place of registration, and shall sit five days
at the voting precinct for which the registration is to be made,
for the purpose of registering all legally qualified voters who
may apply for registration and be entitled to vote at such pre-
cinct at the election to be held next after such registration. And
in every case in which the registration books in any election
district or precinct may be so mutilated or defaced as to render
it proper, in the judgment of said board, that the said regis-
tration books should be copied, the said board is authorized to
order the said books to be copied; and in such case it shall be
the duty of the registrar for such election district to cause fair
copies to be made of the old registration books; and they shall
take the place of the old books, and the old books shall be filed
and preserved in the office of the registrar as the other books
are kept, and the said registrars shall place the books in the
hands of the judges of election not later than sunrise on the
morning of election day, and for failure so to do shall be liable
to a fine of thirty dollars, recoverable before a justice of the
peace; and any registrar who wilfully fails to place the registra-
tion books in the hands of the judges of election by sunrise of
the morning of election, shall be deemed guilty of a misde-
meanor, and on conviction thereof shall be imprisoned in the
county jail not less than six nor more than twelve months, and
be fined not less than twenty dollars nor more than one hun-
dred dollars.
2. This act shall be in force from its ‘passage.