Chap. 323.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 78 of the Code of Vir-
ginia of 1887, as amended and re-enacted by an act of the general assembly
of Virginia, approved December the 8th, 1903, entitled “an act to repeal
sections 63 and 66, and to amend and re-enact sections 62, 64, 65, 67, 68, 69,
72, 73, 74, 75, 78, 79, 80, and 85, as amended by an act approved May 26,
1903, of chapter 8 of the Code of Virginia,” in relation to “duties of regis-
trars; their pay.”

Approved March 19, 1906.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
seventy-eight of the Code of Virginia of eighteen hundred and eighty-
seven, as amended and re-enacted by an act of the general assembly of
Virginia, approved December eighth, nineteen hundred and three, en-
titled “an act to repeal sections sixty-three and sixty-six, and to amend
and re-enact sections sixty-two, sixty-four, sixty-five, sixty-seven, sixty-
eight, sixty-nine, seventy-two, seventy-three, seventy-four, seventy-five,
seventy-eight, seventy-nine, eighty, and eighty-five, as amended by an act
approved May twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and three, of chapter eight
of the Code of Virginia,” be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

§78. When voters registered; duties of registrars; their pay.—Nach
registrar shall annually, on the third Tuesday in May, at his voting place,
proceed to register the names of all qualified voters within his election
district not previously registered in the said district, in accordance with
the provisions of this chapter, who shall apply to be registered, com-
mencing at sunrise and closing at sunset, and shall complete such regis-
tration on the third Tuesday in May. ‘Thirty days previous to the No-
vember elections the registrar shall sit one day for the purpose of amend-
ing and correcting the list, at which time any qualified voter applying,
and not previously registered, may be added. He shall give notice of
the time and place of all registrations for at least ten days before each
sitting, by posting written or printed notices thereof at ten or more public
places in his election district. The registrar shall, at any time previous
to the regular days of registration, register any voter entitled to vote at
the next succeeding election who may apply to him to be registered ; and
he shall receive as compensation ten cents for the name so registered om
days other than the regular days of registration, the same to be paid out
of the county or city treasury. It shall be the duty of the registrar
within five days after each sitting, to have posted at three or more public
places in his election district written or printed lists of the names of all
persons so admitted to registration, and at the same time to also certify
to the clerk of circuit, hustings, or corporation court of the county, city,
or town a true copy of such list, and to have like list posted on the day
of the election at the place of voting in his election district.

And it shall be the duty of the said clerk, upon receipt of such list, to
forthwith record in a suitable book, to be kept in his office for that pur-
pose, the names of the registered voters so certified, in alphabetical ar-
rangement.

For making and certifying such lists the registrars shall be allowed
three cents for each ten words, counting initials as words, and the clerks
for recording the same shall be allowed two cents for each ten words,
counting initials as words, the same to be paid out of the treasury of
county, city, or town.