Chap. 181.—JOINT RESOLUTION Extending the Time for Making Re-
turns of the Elections held the 26th day of May, 1870.

Approved July 9, 1870.

Whereas, at the election held the twenty-sixth day of May,
eighteen hundred and seventy, the judges of election appointed
for certain voting places, failed to make returns thereof at the
time appointed by law: be it
Resolved by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
judges of election aforesaid, shall be authorized to make re-
turns of the same—in the manner prescribed in section thirty-
nine of the act approved May eleventh, eighteen hundred and
seventy, entitled an act to provide for a general election—
within thirty days from the approval of this resolution, on such
day as the commissioners designated by the county or corpo-
ration court to canvass the returns of their county or corpora-
tion may fix upon, and the said commissioners shall be author-
ized, on the day thus appointed, to meet at the clerk’s office of
the county or corporation court, and canvass the returns thus
made, in the manner prescribed in section forty of the act
aforesaid; and such return and canvass shall be deemed as
legal and valid as if originally done in conformity with the
provisions of the said act.