Chap. 14.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 67 of an act of the genera
assembly of Virginia, approved March 5, 1900, entitled “an act to amend an
re-enact sections 67 and 71 of the Code of 1887, in relation to the appointmen
of registrars and the registration of voters.

Approved July 28, 1902.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section sixty
seven of an act of the general assembly approved March fifth, nineteer
hundred, entitled “an act to amend and re-onact sections sixty-seven anc
seventy-one of the Code of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, in relattor
to the appointment of registrars and the registration of voters,” be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 67. Appointment of registrars.—If any person appointed registray
by ordinance of the Constitutional Convention, which assembled in Rich
mond on the twelfth of June, nineteen hundred and one, shall fail o
refuse to qualify before the first day of August, nineteen hundred anc
two, or shall fail to serve, or if a vacancy occur in said board from any
cause, the judge of the county court of the county, or of the eorporatior
court of the city, shall, by appointment, supply the place, or fill suel
vacancy, if it occur prior to nineteen hundred and four, and such ap.
pointees shall qualify in the manner sect out in the ordinance of the con-
vention. After nineteen hundred and four the appointment of registrars
and filling of vacancies shall be by the electoral boards of the counties
and cities as set out in article thirty-one of the Constitution, and the
registrars shall qualify according to law.

2. In Richmond city it shall be lawful for cach registrar to appoint
a clerk and administer to him the same oathis as those taken by the reg-
istrar.

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