Chap. 369.—An ACT amending and re-enacting secfion 15, chapter *
Code of Virginia (edition of 1873), in relation to the Remova! .:
Voters from Wards in which they are Registered.

Approved March 31, 1875.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, Th::
section fifteen, chapter seven, Code of Virginia, edition ¢:
eighteen hundred and seventy-threc, be amended and ri-
enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 15. The common council or board of trustees of eaci
city and town having more than five thousand inhabitant-
shall appoint for each ward as many voting places or pre-
cints as they may deem necessary, and shall prescribe ani
cause to be published the boundaries of such voting plsce:
or precincts, and no voter shall cast his ballot save at the
voting place of the precinct wherein he lives: provided.
however, that every person offering to vote shall have bee:
a resident of the ward in which he offers to vote for thirty
days next preceding any clection at which he offers to vote:
provided, that when any voter removes from one ward t)
another within thirty days of an-election, it shall be lawfu’
for him to vote in the ward from which he removed until he:
has acquired the right to vote in the ward to which b:
removes: provided, that in case of the lawful change or
rearrangement of wards, it shall be the duty of the registrar |
of eacb ward to transfer at once and with application, every
voter in the ward in which he is placed or thrown by suci
change or rearrangement of wards, and thenceforth such
voter shall vote in the ward into which he is so placed or |
thrown, without having resided therein thirty days.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage; and all act
and parts of acts in conflict with the same are hereby re
pealed.