Chap. 690.—An ACT to provide for the manner of electing certain district offi-
cers in the county of Rockingham.

Approved March 8, 189.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That in the
several magisterial districts of the county of Rockingham there shall
be chosen by the qualified voters thereof, at the general election to be
held in May, in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and
bi-ennially thereafter, one supervisor, ope constable, three justices,
and one overseer of the poor, who shall hold their office for the term
of two years; provided, however, that in any magisterial district in
said county wherein is situated any incorporated town or city which
provides for its own poor and maintains its own streets, the voters
of said district residing within the corporate limits of such town or
city shall not vote for overseer of the poor and commissioner of roads
for the said magisterial district, but only the voters outside the cor-
porate limits of such cities or towns and within the magisterial dis-
trict shall be qualified to vote for overseer of the poor and commis-
sioner of roads, and the judges of elections at voting precincts in
such cities and towns shall provide separate ballot-boxes to receive
the vote of such electors as reside outside the corporate limits thereof
but who vote at a precinct in the town or city aforesaid, wherein
shall be deposited the ballots of such electors voting for overseer of
the poor and commissioner of the roads.

2. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act so far as it
relates to the said county of Rockingham are hereby repealed.

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