Chap. 138.—An ACT to allow the qualified voters of the city of Newport
News, Virginia, to nominate candidates for the council by a prima
election. [S B 236

Approved March 7, 1922.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That at the
election of councilmen for the city of Newport News, to be held on
the second Tuesday in June, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, there
shall be submitted to the qualified voters thereof, the question upon
a separate ticket, on which shall be printed, and deposited in a separate
box, the following words: “Fora primary election for the nomination
of councilmen. Against a primary election for the nomination of
councilmen.”

And if it shall appear by the certificate of the judges of the election
that a majority of the votes cast were cast for a primary election
for the nomination of councilmen, then and in that event, all elections
of councilmen hereafter by the qualified voters of the said city may
be nominated by a primary of any political party that may wish to
do so.

2. An emergency existing this act shall be in force from its
passage.