Chap. 89.—An ACT to provide for lists of all persons who have paid their State
poll taxes, and for posting the same; for providing compensation therefor.

Approved March 10, 1904.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the treas-
urer of each county and city shall, at least five months before each regu-
lar election, file with the circuit court of his county, or of the corporation
court of his city, a list of all persons in his county or city who have paid
not later than six months prior to such election the State poll taxes re-
quired by the Constitution of this State during the three years next pre-
ceding that in which such election is held, which list shall be arranged
alphabetically by magisterial districts or wards, shall state the white and
colored persons separately, and shall be verified by the oath of the treas-
urer. The clerk, within ten days from the receipt of the list, shall make
and certify a sufficient number of copies thereof, and shall deliver one
copy for each voting place in his county or city to the sheriff of the
county or sergeant of the city, whose duty it shall be to post one copy,
without delay, at each of the voting places, and, within ten days from
the receipt thereof, to make return on oath to the clerk as to the places
where and dates at which said copies were respectively posted; which
return the clerk shall record in a book kept in his offiee for the purpose ;
and he shall keep in his office for public inspection, for at least sixty
days after receiving the list, not less than ten certified copies thereof.

%. Within thirty days after the list has been so posted any person
who shall have paid his capitation tax, but whose name is omitted from
the certified list, may, after five days’ written notice to the treasurer,
apply to the circuit court of his county, or corporation court of his city,
or to the judge thereof in vacation, to have the same corrected and his
name entered thereon, which application the court or judge shall
promptly hear and decide.
3. The clerk shall deliver, or cause to be delivered, with the poll books,
at a reasonable time before every election, to one of the judges of election
of each precinct in his county or city, a like certified copy of the list,
which shall be conclusive evidence of the facts therein stated for the
purpose of voting. The clerk shall also, within sixty days after the filing
of the list by the treasurer, forward a certified copy thereof, with such
corrections as may have been made by order of the court or judge, to
the auditor of public accounts, who shall charge the amount of the poll
taxes stated therein to such treasurer, unless previously accounted for.

4, For making and certifying such lists the treasurer shall be allowed
three cents for each ten words, counting initials as words, and the clerk
for copying and certifying the same shall be allowed two cents for each
ten words, counting initials as words, for the first copy, and the actual
reasonable costs of printing or of otherwise making, in the cheapest way
obtainable, the other copies which he is required to make. The sheriff or
sergeant posting the lists shall receive twenty-five cents for each list
which he posts. These fees shall be paid out of the treasury of the county
or corporation wherever such lists are made.

5. Any treasurer, clerk, or sheriff failing or refusing to comply with
the provisions of this act shall, upon conviction, be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor, and be punished by a fine of not less than fifty and not
exceeding one thousand dollars.

6. In view of the fact that the duties herein required must be at once
performed an emergency exists, and this act shall be in force from its

passage.