Chap. 94.—An ACT to provide for a new registration of the voters of the town of
Culpeper.

Approved January 22, 1598.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the regis-
trar of the town of Culpeper is hereby authorized and directed to pro-
vide for a new registration of the qualified voters of said town in the
manner hereafter provided.

The council of said town shall provide and furnish to the registrar
suitable books and blanks for the registration of voters. The said
registrar shall give notice of the time and place of registration by
printed handbills at not less than five public places in the town at least
sixty days before the day of registration, and shall sit five days at the
place named in said handbills, beginning on the day named therein, for
the purpose of registering all qualified voters who may apply for regis-
tration and be entitled to vote in the corporation election to be held next
after such registration.

The books shall be so arranged as to admit of the alphabetical
classification of those registered, and shall be ruled in parallel columns,
in which shall be entered the number, name of voter, the fact that he is
sworn, his age, occupation, place of residence at the time of registration,
the length of time of residence in the town, and the length of time of
his residence in the state. The list of voters, white and colored, shall
be kept and arranged in separate books.

4. Before the revistrar shall register the name of any person as a
voter he shall be satisfied of his qualification as prescribed in the char-
ter of said town, and every person so registering shall, before he is
registered, take and subscribe the following oath: ‘1, ———, do sol-
emnly swear (or affirm) that [am not disqualified from exercising the

right of suffrage in the municipal elections authorized to be held under

the charter of the town of Culpeper,’’? which oath, so subseribed, shal
he filed with the registrar and preserved with the books of registration.
Upon the completion of the new registration of voters as he ‘rein provided
the registrar shall post at the front door of the inayor’s office of the
town a list of all persons so registered. He shall receive for his services
under this act two dollars per “day for each day he is sitting as registrar,
ane one dollar for posting notices, to be paid by the town of Culpeper

. Nothing in this act shall inte rfere with the regular re:istration of
new W voters who have not already registered, but they shall be registerec
by the registrar in the new books herein provided for at the times and
in the manner provided hy the laws of said corporation now in force.

6. Thisiactish{h@oimeorce from its passage.