Chap. 115.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 62 of chapter 8 of the Code
of Virginia, as amended by act approved December 8, 1902.

Approved March 12, 1904.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, ‘hat sectior
sixty- -two of chapter cight of the Code of Virginia, as amended by act
approved December eighth, nineteen hundred and three, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

62. Qualification of voters; disqualifications—Every male citizen of
the United States twenty-one years old, who has been a resident of the
State two years, of the county, city, or town one year, and of the precinct
in which he offers to vote thirty days next preceding the election, and who
has been duly registered and has paid his State poll-f&x, as required by
law, and is otherwise qualified under the Constitution and laws of this
State, shall be entitled to vote for members of the general assembly and
all officers elected by the people, and in any special election or local-
option election in any county, district, city, or town, except when other-
wise provided by law; but the removal from one precinct to another in
the same county, city, or town shall not dcprive any person of his right to
vote in the precinct from which he has moved until the expiration of
thirty days from such removal: provided, that the following persons shall
he excluded from registering and voting: Idiots, insane person, and pau-
pers, persons who prior to the adoption “of the Constitution were disquali-
fied from voting by conviction of crime, either within or without this
State, and whose disabilities shall not have been removed; persons con-
victed after the adoption of the Constitution, either within or without
this State, of treason or of any felony, bribery, petit larceny, obtaining
money or other property under false’ pretences, embezzlement, forgery,
or perjury; persons who, while citizens of this State after the adopt ion
of the Constitution, have fought a duel with a deadly weapon or sent or
accepted a challenge to ficht such duel, either within or without this
State, or knowingly conve ved a challenge, or aided or assisted in any way
in the fighting of such ducl: providec d, also, that no officer, soldier, sea-
man, or marine of the United States army or navy shall he deemed to
have gained a residence as to the right of suffrage in the State, or in any
county, city, or town thereof, by reason of his being stationed therein,
nor shall any inmate of any « Jaritable institution or a student in any In-
stitution of learning be regarded as having cither gained or lost a resi-
dence, as to the right of suffre age, by reason of his location or sojourn in
such institution.

2. In view of the fact that certain clections will take place before this
act can become a law in regular course, an emergency exists, therefore this
uct shall be in force from its passage, |