Chap. 269.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act
extending the right of suffrage to women; assessing a State capitation tax
on certain women residents of Virginia; and prescribing the qualifications
of women entitled to vote for members of the general assembly and all
officers elective by the people, and the manner in which women may register
and vote; also providing when this act shall take effect, approved March

20, 1920. [S B 134]
Approved March 15, 1922. |

1. Be it enacted by the genera! assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion one of an act entitled an act extei:ding the right of suffrage to
women ; assessing a State capitation tax on certain women residents
of Virginia; and prescribing the qua ifications of women entitled to
vote for members of the general assembly and all officers elective
by the people, and the manner in which women may register and
vote; also providing when this act sha!] take effect; approved March
twentieth, nineteen hundred and twenty, be amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:

Sec. 1. In addition to the male persons who are or may be
qualified under the Constitution and laws of the Commonwealth of
Virginia to vote for members of the general assembly and all officers
elective by the people, every female citizen of the United States,
twenty-one years of age, who has been a resident of the State two
years, of the county, city or town one year, and of the precinct in
which she offers to vote thirty days next preceding the election in
which she offers to vote, has been registered, and has paid her
State poll taxes as hereinafter required, shall be entitled to vote
for members of the general assembly and all officers elective by the
people; but removal from one precinct to another in the same county,
city or town shall not deprive any woman of her right to vote in the
precinct from which she has moved, until the expiration of thirty
days after such removal. For the purpose of registering and voting,
the residence of a married woman shail not be controlled by the
residence or domicile of her husband.