Chap. 130.—An ACT to provide for a General Registration of the
' Voters of the City of Richmond.

Approved March 17, 1876.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That each regis-
trar of the city of Richmond shall, on the fourth Tuesday in
April, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, proceed to register
the names of all the qualified voters of his precinct, who, ac-
cording to law, are entitled to registration, giving legal notice
of the time and place thereof, for at least ten days before
commencing suebh registration. Said registrars shall com-
plete said registration within seven days from the time of
commenciug the same. Immediately after completing said
registration, said registrars shall cause to be posted, at three
or more public places in their precincts, written or printed
lists of all persons admitted by them to registration.

2. Said registration shall have the same effect and be
deemed equivalent to a general registration of te voters of
said city under the general laws heretofore adopted in regard
to the registration of voters, and shall be made, revised, al-
tered, and amended in the modes prescribed in such laws, or
any other laws regulating reyistration of voters in said city.

3. Provided, that during said registration or after, upon
sufficient proof offered to the registrar, that a name has
been registered contrary to law, it shall be the duty of the
registrar to strike said name from his lists; whereupon he
shall immediately post at the place of residence given for
the name stricken off, a notice directed to such name, in-
forming the person supposed to be represented, that his name
has been stricken off the registration lists, and that upon ap-
plying to. either one of the judges of the hustings, circuit,
or chancery courts of the city of Richmond, and proving to
such judge that his name has been improperly stricken from
said lists, he can have the same restored; and it shall be the
duty of each registrar, at least fifteen days prior to any elec-
tion, to publish in one of the newspapers published in the
city of Richmond, a list of the names stricken from his books
under the provisions of this act; which publication shall be
paid for out of the city treasury as other claims against the
city are paid for. In taking testimony under the provisions
of this act, the registrars are hereby given authority to ad-
minister oaths to witnesses. And if the registrar, upon
proof being offered to him, shall fail or refuse to strike such
name from his list, upon complaint thereof by five citizens
to any one of the judges of the hustings, circuit, or chancery
courts of the city of Richmond, the said judge, upon proof
sufficient to satisfy him, shall order the said registrar to
strike such name from his lists. And if the said registrar
shall, under the provisions of: this act, improperly strike any
name from his lists, upon complaint thereof by the voter to
either one of the said judges, such judge upon proper proof,
shall order the said registrar to restore such name to his
lists. Any registrar who shall corruptly strike a name from
his lists, under the provisions of this act, shall be liable upon
conviction, to a fine of not less than fifty dollars, and to im-
prisonment in jail for not less than ten days. Appeals under
this act to either one of said judges, shall be regulated and gov-
erned, as far as they may be applicable, by the provisions of
section fourteen, chapter seven, Code of eighteen hundred
and seventy-threo.

4, All acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions
of this act, are hereby repealed.

-§. This act shall be in force from its passage.