Chap. 344.—An ACT Authorizing a New Registration of the Voters of She-
nandoah Iron Works Township, in the County of Page.

Approved October 19, 1870.

Whereas, the recent great freshet in the Shenandoah river
swept away all the registration books of Shenandoah Iron
Works Township, in the county of Page, and state of Vir-
ginia, and there are no duplicates of the same in existence :
therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the registrar
of Shenandoah Iron Works Township, in the county of Page,
be and he is hereby authorized and required, after tive days’
notice to the voters of the said township, to proceed to regis-
ter the said voters in the manner prescribed by law, and shall
complete the said registration by the fifth day of November
next ensuing, and the said registration shall dispense with the
necessity of a revision as required by law.

2. This act shall be in forve from its passage.

CHap 345.—An ACT to Amend an Act approved April 30, 1870, Amenda-
tory of an Act approved April 12, 1870, entitled an Act to Provide for
the General Registration of Voters, and an Act Amendatory thereof, ap-
proved April 13.1870, and further Amended by an Act approved April
50, 1870.

Approved October 22, 1870.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the seventh
section of the act entitled an act to provide fora general regis-
tration of voters, approved April twelfth, eighteen hundred
and seventy, as amended by an act approved April thirteenth,
eighteen hundred and seventy, and further amended by an act
approved April thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Ҥ 7. Kach registrar shall annually, on the fourth Tuesday
in April, at his voting place, proceed to register the names of
all the qualified voters within his voting district, not previously
registered in the said district, in accordance with the provis-
ions of this act, who shall apply to be registered, commencing
at sunrise and closing at sunset of each day, and shall complete
such registration within five days thereafter: provided, that
the annual registration for the year eighteen hundred and sev-
enty shall commence on the first Tuesday in May and be com-
pleted within seven days. Fifteen days previous to any state,
city, town, county, or township election, the registrar shall sit
two days for the purpose of amending and correcting the list,
at which time any qualified voter applying, and not previously
registered, may be added; and he may purge and correct the
registration lists by striking from the same the names of such
persons as have died, or have removed from the district, upon
proper evidence being produced betore him. The registrars
shall give notice df the time and place of all registrations, for at
least ten days before each sitting, by posting written or printed
notices thereof at five or more public places in their townships,
wards, and election districts. It shall be the duty of the regis-
trars, within ten days after the completion of any general regis-
tration of voters, under this act, to have posted at three or more
public places in their townships, wards, and election districts,
written or printed lists of all persons admitted by them to re-
gistration, together with the names of those stricken off.”
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.