Chap. 391.—-An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 98 of the Code of Virginia,
as amended, relating to duties of registrars and their pay. [H 68]

Approved March 31, 1944

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That section ninety-eight of the Code of Virginia, as amended,
be amended and re-enacted, as follows:

Section 98. 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 district, in accordance with the provisions of this chap-
ter, who shall apply to be registered, commencing at sunrise and closing
at sunset, and shall complete the registration on the third Tuesday in
May. Thirty days previous to the November elections each registrar
in this State shall sit one day for the purpose of amending and cor-
recting 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 anv time previous to
the regular davs of registration, register anv voter entitled to vote at
the next succeeding election who may apply to him to be registered :
and he shall receive as compensation ten cents for each name so regis-
tered on days other than the regular days of registration, the same
to be paid out of the county or city treasury; provided that in counties
having a population less than thirty thousand the registrar shall re-
ceive a fee of twenty-five cents for each name registered on days other
than the regular days of registration, the same to be paid out of the
county treasury. It shall be the duty of the registrar within five davs
after each sitting, to have posted at three or more public places in his
election district written or printed lists of the names of all persons so
admitted to registration, and at the same time to also certify to the
clerk of the circuit court of the county, or the corporation court of the
city a true copy of such list, and to have like list posted on the dav
of the election at the place of voting in his election district.

And it shall be the duty of the clerk, upon receipt of such list. to
forthwith record in a suitable book, to be kept in his office for that
purpose, the names of the registered voters so certified, in alphabetical
arrangement.

For making and certifying such lists the registrars shall be allowed
three cents for each ten words, counting initials as words, and the
clerks for recording the same shall be allowed two cents for each ten
words, counting initials as words, the same to be paid out of the treasury
of the county, city or town.

Whenever the name of any registered voter shall have been changed.
either by marriage or order of court, the registrar in whose district
such voter is registered, shall upon the written request of such voter
enter the change upon the registration books, and certify the same to
the clerk of the circuit court of the county or the corporation court
of the city, as the case may be, who shall record the change upon the
books kept in his office.

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