Chap. 181.—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Sections 5, 7, 9 and 12 of
an Act Approved April 12th, 1870, Entitled an Act to Provide for thc
General Kegistration of Voters.

Approved March 14, 1872.

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1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section five of the act entitled an act to provide for a genera
registration of voters, approved April twelfth, eighteen hundrec
and seventy, and the seventh section of the same act, a:
amended by an act approved April thirtieth, eighteen hundrec
and seventy, and further amended by an act approved Apri
thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy, and also the ninth anc
twelfth sections of the same act, approved April twelfth
eighteen hundred and seventy, be amended and re-enacted s
as to read as follows:

§ 5. Each registrar shall, before entering upon the duties o
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his office, take and subscribe, before some officer authorized by
law to administer oaths, the oath of office prescribed in the
constitution of tlis state, which oath or affirmation he shall
subscribe and file in the clerk's office of the county or hust-
ings court of his county or corporations He shall receive a
compensation of two dollars for each day that he is sitting as
registrar, and one dollar for posting notices, to be paid out of
the county or corporation treasury.

$7. Each registrar shall, annually, on the second Tuesday

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in May, 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 accor dance with the provisions

of this act, who shall apply to be registered, columencing at

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sunrise and closing at sunset, and sha ul complete such regis-
tration on the said second Tuesday in May. Ten days pre-

‘vious to the November elections, the registrar shall sit one day

for the purpose of amending and correcting the list, at which
time any qualified voter applying and not previously registered
may be added: provided, that in each city or town having more
than two thousand inhabitants, the registrar may sit three days
previous to any state, city, county or township election. The
registrars shall give notice of the time and place of all regis-
trations for at least ten days before each sitting, by posting
written or printed notices thereof at ten or more public places
in their townships, wards and election districts. And the regis-
trar shall, at any time previous to the regular days of registra-
tion, register any voter who may apply to him to be registered

-and who will be entitled to vote at the next succeeding election;

and the registrar shall receive the same compensation for
the names so registered on days other than the regular days of
registration that assessors may be entitled to for listing births
and deaths. It shall be the duty of the registrars, within five

days after each sitting, 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 registration,
and also to have written or printed lists of all such persons
added, posted on each day of election, at each place of voting
in their townships, wards and election districts.

¢ 9. Whenever a registered voter changes his place of resi-

dence from one voting district to another, it shall be lawful for

him to apply for, in person or in writing, and it shall be the
duty of the registrar of his former voting district at any
time, whether it be ina township, ward or voting place, to
furnish a certificate that he was duly registered, and that his
name has since his removal been erased from the recistration
books of said voting district, wluch shall be suflicient evidence
to entitle him to reister, and the name of every such person
shall be entercd upon the registration book of the tow nship,
ward or voting place to whic ‘h he has removed by the registrar
at any time or by one of the judges on the day of election:
provided, that in cities and towns containing over two thou-
sand inhabitants, the name of such person shall ouly be entered
by the registrar on the days named in the seventh section.
§12. If any person shall offer to register and shall be A
rejected by the registrar, he may take an appeal to the judge *
of the county or hustings court of his county, city or town, in
term time or vacation, and any elector may challenge the right c
of any person offering to register; and if the registrar shall *
allow such challenged person to register, the said elector may
appeal, in like manner, to said judge. And itshall be the duty F
of the registrar, on application of any person so desiring an ,
appeal, to transmit to the judge of the said court, having juris-
diction over the said voting place, a written statement of the
ground relied on by the appellant, and the reasons relied on by
the registrar for his action.

It shall be the duty of said judge to hear evidence offered by F
the said appellant and appellee; but in case the appeal is by
an elector, contesting the right of any person so registering,
such person shall have reasonable notice of the time and place
of hearing said appeal; and the said judge shall, at least five
days previous to any election, transmit to the registrar from
whose action such appeal was taken his decision, which shall
be entered by the registrar on his registration books, in any .
case of appeal under this section, the court may give or refuse
costs as to it may seem right.

The registrar, at each place of voting, shall deliver to the F
judges of election his registration books, previous to any elec- ,
tion to be held at said voting place; and after such election, °
the judges of election shall turn over the registration books to p
the registrar, who shall keep and preserve the same, and the ?.
said registration books shall at all times be open to inspection.
If the registration book of any voting place shall, from any 1
cause be lost or destroyed, it shall be the duty of the registrar 4,
to report the fact to his county or corporation court judge, °
who shall order a re-registration of the qualified voters of said
voting place, specifying the number of days that the registrar
shall sit.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage. c