Chap. 27.—An ACT to legalize party primaries for the nomination of city otlicers
in the city of Charlottesville.

Approved January 4, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That all party
primaries in the city of Charlottesville for the nomination of city officers
shall be held and conducted in the manner prescribed by the election
laws of Virginia then existing, and that all acts punishable under said
laws, when done in elections held thereunder, shall, if done in said
primaries, be punishable in accordance with said laws: provided, the
party committees ordering such an election may, if it so elect, select the
judges and clerks to conduct such primary election, otherwise the Judges
and clerks chosen under the law may serve; and provided further, that
the said party committee may determine who shall be excluded from
voting in said primary, and may provide their own lists of voters; said
lists to contain, however, the names only of residents of the city who
shall be eligible to vote in the municipal election for the choice of officers
for which the primary makes nominations.

2. The expenses of said election shall be borne by the party orzan'-
zation which orders the primary.

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