Chap. 801.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 67 and 71 of the code of
1887, in relation to the appointment of registrars and the registration of
voters.

Approved March 65, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sections
sixty-seven and seventy-one of the code of Virginia, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 67. Appointment of registrars.—It shall be the duty of the electoral
board of each city and county, prior to the first day of April, nineteen
hundred, and every year thereafter, to appoint a registrar for each elec-
tion district of their respective counties and cities, who shall be a discreet
citizen and resident of the election district in and for which he is ap-
pointed, and who shall hold office for the term of one year from the first
day of April following his appointment, and until his successor is duly
appointed and qualified. In the city of Richmond it shall be lawful for
each registrar to appoint a clerk, and to administer to him the same
oaths as those taken by the registrar. The said electoral boards shall,
from time to time, fill any vacancy that may occur in the office of
registrar.

§ 71. New registration provided for.—The said electoral boards shall
provide for a new registration of voters for any election district of their
respective counties or cities whenever, in their opinion, the same may
have become necessary by reason of the loss or destruction of the regis-
tration books, or when said books are so mutilated, blotted, defaced, or
otherwise in such condition as to render it difficult, troublesome, or
unsafe to use them longer; thereupon the registrars shall given notice
of the time and place of registration by printed or written hand bills
posted at not less than five places in the election district, at least thirty
days before the day of registration, and shall sit three days for the
purpose of registering all qualified voters who mav apply for registration,
and be entitled to vote at such precinct at the election to be held next
after such registration. And whenever the registration books in any elec-
tion district may be so mutilated and defaced as to render it proper, in
the judgment of said board, that the said books should be copied, the
said board is authorized to order it to be done; and in such case it shall
be the duty of the registrar for such election district to cause fair copies
to be made of the old registration books, and they shall take the place
of the old books, which shall be filed and preserved in the office of the
registrar as the other books are kept.

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