Chap. 10.—An ACT to carry into effect an ordinance of the Constitutional Con-
vention of Virginia, which assembled at Rithmond on the l2th of June, 1901,
entitled “an ordinance to provide for the registration of voters under this Con-
stitution and prior to 1904,” so far as legislative action may be necessary, and
to make it applicable to tuwns.

Approved July 28, 1902.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the pro-
visions of an ordinance adopted by the Constitutional Convention, which
assembled in Richmond on the twelfth of June, nineteen hundred and
one, entitled “‘an ordinance to provide for the registration of voters un-
der the Constitution and prior to the year nineteen hundred and four,”
shall apply to the towns of the Commonwealth just as it does to the cities
and counties thereof.

2. The board of registration appointed by the said Constitutional
Convention shall record in suitable books provided for in said ordinance,
in alphabetical order, the names of all persons registered, the date of
birth and registration, their occupation and residence, keeping separate
books in duplicate for white and colored voters for each precinct. And
after the completion of said registration, the board shall retain one set
of such books, and shall make a roll containing the names of all persons
thus registered, to be made, sworn to, and certified by such board. The
said roll shall be forwarded by the chairman of the board to the clerk of
the circuit court of the county, to be filed for record and preservation in

said@ office as required by section nineteen of the Constitution of Vir-
ginia, and one set of said books shall be forwarded by the chairman of
the board to the clerk of the county court of the county or the clerk of
the corporation court of the city, as the case may be, to be copied in a
proper book and preserved in his office as required by section four of an
ordinance of the Constitutional Convention aforesaid, entitled “an ordi-
nance to provide for the registration of voters under this Constitution
and prior to the vear nineteen hundred and four.” For making the said
duplicate and roll, the board and clerks shall be allowed one cent for
every thirty words, counting initials as words.

3. On or before the first day of September, nineteen hundred and two,
the treasurer of each county and city shall furnish to the board of regis-
trars of each town, magisterial district, or ward of his county or city, a
certified list, made out in alphabetical order, containing the names of all
white and colored males over the age of twenty-one years, the white and
colored to be on separate lists within such district or ward, and in cities
where property is not assessed for State taxes in wards or districts, a list
of all such persons in said city who for the vear nineteen hundred and one
have paid as much as one dollar in State tax for property owned by and
assessed against them; and on or before the first day of September, nine-
teen hundred and three, the said treasurer shall furnish to the said boards
a similar list of those who for the year ninetcen hundred and two have
paid as much as one dollar in State tax for property owned by and
assessed: against them. For making said lists the treasurer shall be en-
titled to one cent for every thirty words, counting initials as words.

4. Until January first, nineteen hundred and four, the board shall
have the custody and keeping of one set or duplicate of the registration
books; but a reasonable time before the elections to be held in nineteen
hundred and two and nincteen hundred and three, not later than sunrise
on election day, the books for each precinct shall be delivered by the
chairman of the board of registration, or some member of the said board
selected for the purpose, to the judges, or one of them, at said precinct
appointed to conduct said election; and said judges of election shall ap-
point one of their number, who shall, within a reasonable time after said
election, return the books to said board.

5. Any violation of this act by the chairman of the registration board,
or any member thereof, by the clerk of the court, the treasurer, or any
of the judges of election, for which no punishment has been otherwise
provided, shall be deemed as a misdemeanor, and punished by fine not
exceeding one hundred dollars and imprisonment in the county jail not
exceeding one month, either or both,

6. The costs of carrying this act into effect, except the books and
forms to be prepared by the secretary of the Commonwealth, and pro-
vided at the expense of the State, shall be defrayed by the counties and
cities in which such registration is held.

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