Chap. 326.—An ACT to provide for the preservation of the permanent registra-
tion rolls, and for the transfer of voters on said rolls, and for copy to be used
for all purposes with same effect as the original.

Approved November 28, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the regis-
tration rolls or books made by the boards of registration appointed by
the Constitutional Convention which assembled in Richmond on the
twelfth day of June, nineteen hundred and one, and which, under the
registration ordinance adopted by said convention, will be delivered to
the registrars after the first day of January, nineteen hundred and four,
shall be known as the permanent registration rolls or books, and shall be
carefully preserved by the said registrars, and the voters on said rolls or
books shall be kept separate from the voters whose names shall be entered
on the registration books after the first day of January, nineteen hun-
dred and four. If any person whose name is registered on said permanent
roll shall move to another precinct, he shall be entitled to register therein
after such residence therein, as ix required by law, on the permanent roll
upon transfer issued by the registrar having custody of the permanent
roll upon which he last registered, and said transfer shall state that the
voter’s name is on the permanent roll, and a note of such transfer shall
be made by the registrar upon the permanent roll in his possession. The
registrar giving the transfer shall send a duplicate to the county court
of his county, or to the clerk of the corporation or hustings court of a
city, as a case may be, who shall note the same upon the permanent roll
in his possession, and the registrar of the precinct to which said voter is
transferred shall send a certificate of his registration to the county clerk
of his county, or to the clerk of the corporation or hustings court of a
city, as a case may be, who shall enter the voter’s name upon the per-
manent roll in his office, and be entitled to the same fee for his service
that the registrar is for registering a voter. And whenever any perma-
nent roll or book of any precinct in the possession of the registrar shall
be lost or destroved. a copy of the permanent roll or book in the county
clerk’s office of the county, or in the office of the clerk of the corporation
or hustings court of a city, as a case may be, shall be made and certified
by the county court of the county or clerk of the corporation or hustings
court of the city, as the ease may be, and when so made and certified
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shall be used for all purposes with the same force and effect. as the orig’
nal roll or book. The clerk for said services shall be allowed one cen
for sod fifteen words, to be paid out of the treasury of the said count
or city.

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