CHaP. 109.—An ACT to amend section 64 of the code of Virginia
in relation to electoral .

A pproved February 25, 1890.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia
That section sixty-four of the code of Virginia be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows: |

$64. General assembly to elect electoral boards.—The
general assembly shall, at its session commencing in De.-
cember, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine,and at each alter-
nate regular session thereafter, proceed to elect three quali-
fed voters, who shall be residents of the county or city
for which they are chosen, to be known as the county or
city electoral board, as the case may be, who shall go into
office on the first day of January succeeding their elec-
Non, or as soon thereafter as possible, having first taken
and subscribed the usual oath of office prescribed for city
and county officers, and whose term of office shall con-
tinue for four years, or until their successors are duly
elected and qualified: provided, however, that the terms
of office of the electoral boards for the various counties
and cities of the commonwealth elected at the said ses-
sion of the general assembly shall commence as of the
date of the approval of this act, and shall continue until
the thirty-first day of Decenther, eighteen hundred and
ninety-three, or until their successors are duly elected and
qualified. The oaths prescribed by this section may be
taken before any person qualified to administer oaths, and
when so taken and subscribed, they shall be filed in the
office of the county, corporation, or hustings court, as the
case may be.

2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act
are hereby repealed.

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