CHAP. 455.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 78 of the Code of
Virginia in relation to the duties and compensation of registrars.

(H. B. 70.)
Approved March 22, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section seventy-eight of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore
amended, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 78. When voters registered; duties of registrars;
their pay.—Each registrar in the cities and towns of this State
shall, annually, on the third Tuesday in May, at his voting place,
proceed to register the names of all qualified voters within his
election district, not previously registered in the said district in
accordance with the provisions -of this chapter, who shall apply
to be registered, commencing at sunrise and closing at sunset,
and shall complete such registration on the third Tuesday in
May. Thirty days previous to the November elections each reg-
istrar in the State shall sit one day for the purpose of amend-
ing and correcting the list, at which time any qualified voter
applying and not previously registered may be added. He shall
give notice of the time and place of all registrations for at least
ten days before each sitting by posting written or printed notices
thereof at ten or more public places in his election district. The
registrar shall, at any time previous to the regular days of reg-
istration, register any voter entitled to vote at the next suc-
ceeding election who may apply to him to be registered; and he
shall receive as compensation ten cents for the name so reg-
istered on days other than the regular days of registration, the
same to be paid out of the county or city treasury. It shall be
the duty of the reg’strar, within five days after each sitting,
to have posted at three or more public places in his election dis-
trict written or printed lists of the names of all persons so ad-
mitted to registration, and also have like lists posted on the day
of election at the places of voting in his election district.

2. An emergency existing in order that funds may be saved
for the counties of this State for the year nineteen hundred and
sixteen, this act shall be in force from its passage.