Chap. 421.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2995, 2998 and 2999 of the
Code of Virginia. ; [H B 138]
Approved March 21, 1924.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sections
twenty-nine hundred and ninety-five, twenty-nine hundred and ninety-
eight and twenty-nine hundred and ninety-nine of the Code of Vir-
ginia, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 2995. Appointment of registrars and judges of election.—
The electoral board of the county within which such town or the greater
part thereof is situated, shall, not less than fifteen days before any town
election therein, appoint one registrar and three judges of election for
each voting precinct, which judges shall also act as commissioners of
election. The said registrars shall, before any election in said town,
register all voters who are residents of the respective precincts of such
town, and who shall have previously registered as voters in the county,
or either of them in which said town is situated, and none others. The
said registrars shall be governed as to their qualifications and powers.
and in the performance of their duties, by the general laws of this Com-
monwealth, so far as the same may be applicable.

Section 2998. Returns of eleetions.—The election shall open and
close on the day the same is held, at the time fixed by the general law
of this Commonwealth for the opening and closing of elections, and the
judges shall count the ballots and make duplicate returns of the result.
One of said returns, with the ballots sealed up, shall be returned to the
clerk’s office of the court of the county; the other shall be returned to the
council and recorded in the record book of said council.

Section 2999. Voting place or places; precinct or precincts; notice
of election; how given.—There shall be but one voting place in each
town, which shall be fixed by ordinance, unless the council thereof by
ordinance shall provide for, establish and lay off said town into voting
precincts, in which event they shall also fix the voting places in each
precinct, provided, however, that if said voting place or places be not
fixed by ordinance, the same shall be fixed by the judges of election of
the respective precincts. Of the time and place or places of such elec-
tion five days’ notice shall be given by the sheriff to the electors of the
town, by causing written or printed notices to be posted at three or
more public places within the town, and in such other mode as he may
deem best. .