Chap. 274.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 19 of an act approved March
4, 1896, entitled “an act to amend and re-enact. an act entitled an aet to provide
for a method of voting by ballot, approved March 6, 1894,” and to repeal section
20 of said act.

Approved May 13, 1903. °

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section nine-
teen of an act approved March fourth, eighten hundred and ninety-siX,
entitled “an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide
for a method of voting by ballot, approved March sixth, eighteen hundred
and ninety-four,” be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

$19. Elections in towns; other elections.—The provisions of this act
shall apply to all elections held in this State. Where the election is held
In an incorporated town for town officers, it shall be the duty of all per-
sons who intend to be candidates for office in said town to give notice of
said candidacy to the county clerk of the county in which said town is, as
provided by the fifth section of this act, and said clerk shall notify the
electoral board, and the tickets shall be printed and delivered, and the
election held and conducted in the manner provided by this act. Where
the election is to be held to ascertain the sense of the qualified voters of
this State, or of anv county, city, town, or district of anv county, upon
any question submitted to them by Jaw, it shall be the duty of the electoral
board of the county or city, or of the county in which said town or dis-
trict is, as the case mav be, to have the words printed upon the tickets di-
rected by the law submitting said question; but in all other respects said
elections shall conform to the provisions of this act.

2. That section twenty of said act be. and the same is, hereby repealed.

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