Chap. 253.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 86 of the Code of 1887.
(S. B. 31.)

Approved March 24, 1914.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section eighty-six of the Code of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 86. How registration books purged.—It shall be lawful for
three qualified voters of an election district, ten days previous to
either of the regular days of registration, to post written or printed
notices, at not less than three public places in said district, including
the voting place therein, of the names of all persons alleged by said
voters to be improperly on the registration books of that district.
The notice shall be signed by the person posting the same. On the
regular day of registration the registrar shall hear the testimony
produced for or against the right of the persons named in said
notice to be retained on the registration books, and if he be satis-
fied that any person mentioned in said notice has removed from the
election district, has died or for any other reason is not a qualified
voter, he shall strike his name from the registration books. If the
registrar shall be unable to hear the evidence in reference to the
names alleged to be improperly on the registration books on the
regular days of registration the books shall be kept open as to such
names only, until such hearing is completed. From the decision of
a registrar whereby any person is stricken from the registration
books such person shall have the right to appeal, as is provided,
by the act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved November
twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and three (Code section 83-a), en-
titled an act to provide an appeal to persons denied registration, and
from the decision of a registrar refusing to strike from the registra-
tion books any person alleged to be improperly on the registration
books, any qualified voter of the county or city shall have the right
to appeal, such appeal to conform as near as may be to the act of
November, nineteen hundred and three, aforesaid.

Whenever any person’s name has been placed upon the registra-
tion books of any election district, and an election, either general or
special, is appointed to be held in said district, at such time that no
regular registration day will intervene, between the time when the
name of such person is posted, as required by law, and the said
election, then it shall be lawful for three qualified voters of said
election district to appeal to the circuit or corporation court of his..
county, or city, or the judge thereof in vacation, from the action of
the said registrar in placing such name on the registration books.
Such appeal shall conform, as far as practicable, to the provisions
of the act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved November
twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and three (Code 83-a), and en-
titled an act to provide an appeal to any person denied registration,
provided that any person whose right to have his name remain on
the registration books is contested shall have at least five days no-
tice of the time and place when said appeal will be heard.