Chap. 62.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 109, chapter 11, of the mode of
Virginia. [S B 93]
Approved February 26, 1924.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
one hundred and nine, chapter eleven, of the Code of Virginia be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 109. List of all persons who have paid their State poll
taxes shall be made by treasurer; duties of clerk in reference thereto;
posting thereof by the sheriff.—The treasurer of each county and city
shall, at least five months before the second Tuesday in June and each
regular election n November, file with the clerk of the circuit court of
his county, or the corporation court of his city, a list of all persons in
his county, or city, who have paid not later than six months prior to
each of said dates the State poll taxes required by the Constitution of
this State during the three years next preceding that in which such
election is to be held, which list shall be arranged alphabetically by
magisterial districts or wards, shall state the white and colored persons
separately, and shall be verified by the oath of the treasurer. The
clerk, within twenty days after the receipt of the list, shall make and
certify a sufficient number of copies thereof, and shall deliver one copy
for each voting place in his county or city to the sheriff of the county or
sergeant of the city, whose duty:it shall be to post one copy without
delay, at each of the voting places, and, within ten days from the receipt
thereof, to make return on oath to the clerk as to the places where and
dates at which said copies were respectively posted; which return the
clerk shall record in a book kept in his office for the purpose; and he
shall keep in his office for public inspection, for at least sixty days after
receiving the list, not less than ten certified copies thereof.

2. Anemergency existing, this act shall be in force from its passage.