Chap. 450.—An ACT to amend sections 10,18 and 14 of an act entitled an act
2 regulate municipal elections in the city of Winchester, approved March 6,
1890. ;

Approved February 27, 1894.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sections
ten, thirteen and fourteen of an act entitled an act to regulate muni-
cipal elections in the city of Winchester, approved March sixth,
eighteen hundred and ninety, be amended and re-enacted so aa to
read as follows:

$10. It shall be unlawful for any elector to carry the official ballot

fnreniahed him hv a indga af alactinn fnrthar than thea camnartment
provided for by section seven, and should he, after inspecting the
said ballot, conclude not to vote, he must immediately return said
ballot to the judges of election. And any voter may call upon either
of the special constables as provided for in this act to read to him
while in the said booth preparing to vote, apart from all other per-
sons, the official ballot, and it shall be the duty of said constable to
carefully designate to said voter the names upon said ballot. Any
person violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not
less than five hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars
and confined in jail six months. Any attempt to carry any official
ballot beyond the compartment provided for, or away from said com-
partment, except to the judges of election, shall be a misdemeanor,
punishable with a fine of one hundred dollars; and it shall be the
duty of the judges of election to cause by verbal order the instant ar-
rest of any one making such attempt, and he shall be required either
to vote or give up the said ballot.

§ 13. The judges of election shall not receive or allow any ballot
to be voted except an official ballot, sealed with the seal of the board,
as provided by section five, and should more than one candidate for
any municipal office be left unscratched there shall be no vote counted
for any person for such office.

§ 14. The electoral board of the city of Winchester shall appoint
two speci&l constables, one from each of the opposing political par-
ties, for each voting precinct in said city, whose duty it shall be to
see that the provisions of sections eight, nine, ten, eleven and fifteen
are faithfully performed and executed. He shall arrest by the ver-
bal order or warrant of the judges of election of the precinct to which
he is assigned, and the said person shall be at once taken before a
magistrate of the city of Winchester, where the proceedings shall be
in accordance with the general law of the state; but an opportunity
shall be given every such person to cast his ballot in accordance with
the provisions of the preceding sections. The pay of each such special
constable shall be two dollars and fifty cents for services upon such
election day, payable as hereinafter provided.

§ 19. This act shall be in force from and after July first, eighteen
hundred and ninety-four.