Chap. 325.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3, 8, 9, and 17 of an act en-
titled an act to regulate the holding of city and ward primary elections in the
city of Norfolk, Virginia, approved March 5, 1894, and to repeal section 4 of
said act.

Beeame a Jaw November 27, 1903, notwithstanding the objections of the governor.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section four
of an act entitled an act to regulate the holding of city and ward primary
elections in the city of Norfolk, Virginia. approved March fifth, eighteen
hundred and ninetv-four, be, and the same is hereby, repealed; and that
sections three, eight, nine, and seventeen of the said act be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

$3. The said local exceutive committee shall receive the names of all
persons who propose to be candidates for the offices to be voted for at said
ensuing general election, or for delegates to eity, senatorial, district, or
State convention, or for members of the city executive committee of such
party, and shall close the lists of the same ten days (including Sundays)
prior to the date on which it is proposed to hold the same, and shall call
a meeting of candidates to assemble not later than three days after closing
said lists to elect by ballot eight qualified voters—one from each ward
and one at large—who shall act as an electoral board, and who shal!
appoint three judges and two clerks for each precinct or ward, who shall
be voters in their respective wards, in the said city, at which it is proposed
to hold said city or ward primary elections, No voter shall be qualified to
act as a member of said clectoral board who shall be a candidate for office
or position, or be holding any office or position, or who shall receive less
sean boron of all the votes of all the candidates who shall have been
isted.

§ 8. The board of registrars of each ward, or the proper registration
officers thereof, shall, five days before said city or ward primary elections.
have a complete copy in ink made of the registration books of his ward.
purging therefrom the names of all voters who by Jaw from any cause
should be purged therefrom by said board of registrars or by said registra-
tion officers, and said board or said registration officers shall place their
initials after the last name on each page of said copy, and shall certify to
the correctness of said copy before any offieer authorized to administer an
oath. Said copies shall be turned over by said board of registrars or said
registration officers to the said electoral board or boards five days before
said city or ward primary, and said electoral board or boards may require
the attendance of said board of registrars or said registration officers, and
may verify the copy of the registration books furnished by them, and
said electoral board or boards shall, not later than the day previous to the
proposed city or ward primary election, deliver to the judges of clection
appointed for each precinct or ward a copy of the registration book or
books belonging to such precinct or ward. For making and certifving
such copy of the registration books for any precinct, said board of regis-
trars or said registration officers shall receive the sum of five dollars, to
be paid from such fund as may be raised by such party holding such city
or ward primary clections.

No person shall be allowed to vote in any citv or ward primary election
unless his name shall appear properly registered in said copy of the regis-
tration books.

§ 9. Only such candidates for salaried office as shall receive a majority
of votes cast in said city or ward primary elections shall be considered
nominated ; and should no candidate receive a majority of the votes cast
for the office for which he is running the first day of said primary clec-
tion, a second day's primary election shall be held in like manner to de-
cide between the two candidates for salaried officers receiving the highest
number of votes at the first day’s primary for any such office. In any
primary election for councilman or delegates to conventions, or members
of the executive committee, the number of candidates to which the ward
is entitled who receive the highest number of votes shall be declared
nominated,
§ 17. Within three days after any city or ward primary election, the
copies of registration books used therein shall be delivered by the judges
of each precinct or ward where the same have been used to the clerk of
the corporation court, to be retained by him, subject to inspection by any
person interested; but no book shall be withdrawn from him excepting
by the board of registrars or the registration officers of the ward to which
it belongs, for the purpose of correcting or purging it, to make it agree
with the registration book, and to be used as a copy of the same at a city
or ward primary election about to be held, as hereinbefore provided.

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

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