CHAPTER 605

AN ACT to amend and reenact §§ 24-114, 24-185, 24-210 and 24-285 of the
Code of Virginia, relating, respectively, to delivery of registration
books to judges of election; certification of candidates for election;
pay of special messenger for the State Board of Elections; and meet-
ings of the State Board of Elections; and to repeal § 24-84 of the Code
of Virginia, relating to closing registration books in certatn oS 385

Approved March 29, 1958

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia: oo.

1. That §§ 24-114, 24-135, 24-210 and 24-285 of the Code of Virginia be
amended and reenacted as follows: ; .

§ 24-114. The registrar, at each place of voting, shall deliver to the
judges of election his registration books, not later than the time prescribed
in §§ 24-182 and 24-183 for the opening of the polls on election day. The
registrar, other than general registrars who receive a salary, shall receive
a fee of three dollars for delivering the books to the Judge of election if
he has not been appointed to serve as an election official at his precinct.
After such election, the judges of election shall turn over the regis-
tration books to the registrar. Any registrar, negligently failing so to
deliver his books, shall be fined thirty dollars; and any registrar, wilfully
failing so to do, shall be fined not less than twenty nor more than one
hundred dollars, and imprisoned in jail not less than six months nor more
than twelve months.

§ 24-135. On receipt of the notices required by §§ 24-130 and 24-131
the State Board of Elections shall notify the secretary of each electoral
board of each county and city of the State or of the congressional district,
and the clerk or clerks shall notify the secretary * of the electoral boards
of their respective counties and cities, which notices shall be sent by the
State Board of Elections and clerks immediately after the time has ex-
pired in which candidates may give notice of their candidacy as prescribed
by §§ 24-130 and 24-131, and upon the failure or refusal of the clerk or
clerks immediately to certify to the electoral board the name of each and
every candidate which has been duly filed, the judge of the circuit or corpo-
ration court may upon motion of any * candidate affected immediately
certify to the electoral board the name of each and every candidate which
has been duly filed. The clerks shall send copies of the original notices of
candidacy, to the secretary of the electoral board when they notify him.
The names of party primary nominees to be voted on in several counties
and cities shall be furnished the secretaries by the several persons to whom
abstracts of primary elections must be furnished under § 24-388.

§ 24-210. The special messenger sent by the State Board of Elections
to any county or corporation for a copy of the abstract of votes of such
county shall receive as compensation for his services the sum of five
dollars per day for the time necessary to go and return from such county
or city, and * seven cents per mile for each mile traveled in going to and
returning by the route usually traveled from the capital to such city or to
the county seat of such county, to be paid out of the public treasury.

§ 24-285. For the purpose of canvassing the result of elections, the
State Board of Elections shall meet at its office on the fourth Monday in
November * after the election, when it shall, upon the certified abstracts on
file in its office proceed to examine and make statements of the whole num-
ber of votes given at any such election for members of the State Senate and
House of Delegates, members of the United States Senate and House of
Representatives and electors of President and Vice President of the United
ee or for so many of such officers as have been voted for at such
election.

2. § 24-84 of the Code of Virginia is repealed.