CHAP. 94.—-An ACT to amend and re-enact section 32 of chapter 8
of the Code of 1873, in reference to the counting of the vote by the
board of state canvassers in eases of special election, as amended by
ar. act approved January 25, 1879.

Approved February 8, 1879.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That

section thirty-two of chapter eight of the Code of Virginia of
eighteen hundred and seventy-three, as amended by an act
approved January twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-
nine, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
' §32. For the purpose of canvassing the result of elections,
the state board of canvassers shall meet at the office of the
secretary of the commonwealth on the fourth Monday in No-
vember next after the election, when they shall, upon the certi-
fied abstracts on file in the office of the secretary of the com-
monwealth, proceed to examine and make statement of the
whole number of votes given at any such election for attorney-
general, members of the senate and house of delegates, repre-
sentatives in congress, and electors of president and vice-presi-
dent of the United States, or for so many of said officers as
have been voted for at such election, which statements shall
show the names of persons to whom such votes have been
given for either of the said offices, and the whole number given
to each, distinguishing the several districts, cities, towns, and
counties in which they were given; they shall certify such
statements to be correct and subscribe their names thereto,
and they shall thereupon determine what persons have been by
the greatest number of votes duly elected to such offices, or
either of them, and shall endorse and subscribe on such state-
ments a certificate of such determination, and deliver them to
the secretary of the commonwealth. ‘The secretary of the
commonwealth shall record in a suitable book to be kept by
him in his office for that purpose, each certified statement and
determination as made by the board of state canvassers, and
shall without delay make out and transmit to each of the per-
sons thereby declared to be elected (except the attorney-gen-
eral, who shall be commissioned by the governor), a certificate
‘of his election, and certified by him under his seal of office:
provided that in cases of special elections to fill vacancies held
at any other time than that fixed for general elections, the state
board of canvassers shall meet at the office of the secretary of
the commonwealth on the day after the returns of such elcc-
tion are received, for the purpose of canvassing the result of
such special elections in the manner hereinbefore set forth;
and in case all the abstracts of votes to be counted shall not
have been received within the twelve days, the said board shall
adjourn from day to day until they shall be so received by the
secretary of the commonwealth.

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