Chap. 130.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 10, 1904,
entitled: An act to provide for lists of all persons who have paid their State
poll taxes, and for posting the same; and providing compensation therefor.

Approved March 3, 1908.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act
approved March tenth, nineteen hundred and four, entitled an act to
provide for lists of all persons who have paid their State poll taxes, and
for posting and providing compensation therefor, be amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows:

The treasurer of each county and city shall, at least five months before
the second Tuesday in June and each regular election in November, file
with the clerk of the circuit court of his county, or of the corporation
court of his city, a list of all persons in his county or city who have paid
not later than six months prior to each of said dates the State poll taxes
required by the Constitution of this State during the three years next
preceding that in which such election is held, which list shall be arranged
alphabetically by magisterial districts or wards, shall state the white and
colored persons separately, and shall be verified by the oath of the treas-
urer. The clerk, within ten days of receipt of the list, shall make and
certify a sufficient number of copies thereof, and shall deliver one copy for
each voting place in his county or city to the sheriff of the county or
sergeant of the city, whose duty it shall be to post one copy without
delay, at each of the voting places, and, within ten days from the receipt
thereof, to make return on oath to the clerk as to the places where and
dates at which said copies were respectively posted; which return the
clerk shall record in a book kept in his office for the purpose; and he shall
keep in his office for public inspection, for at least sixty days after re-
ceiving the list, not less than ten certified copies thereof.

2. Within thirty days after the list has been so posted any person
who shall have paid his capitation tax, but whose name is omitted from
the certified list, may, after five days’ written notice to the treasurer,
apply to the circuit court of his county, or corporation court of his city,
or to the judge thereof in vacation, to have the same corrected and his
name entered thereon, which application the court or judge shall promptly
hear and decide.

3. The clerk shall deliver, or cause to be delivered, with the poll books
at a reasonable time before every election, to one of the judges of elec-
tion of each precinct in his county or city, a like certified copy of the
list, which shall be conclusive evidence of the facts therein stated for
the purpose of voting. The clerk shall also, within sixty days after the
filing of the list by the treasurer, forward a certified copy thereof, with
such corrections as may have been made by order of the court or judge,
to the auditor of public acounts, who shall charge the amount of the poll
taxes stated therein to such treasurer, unless previously accounted for.

4. For making and certifying such lists the treasurer shall be allowed
three cents for each ten words, counting initials as words, and the clerk
for copying and certifying the same shall be allowed two cents for each
ten words, counting initials as words, for the first copy, and one half
a cent for each ten words for all other copies required to be made. The
sheriff or sergeant posting the lists shall receive twenty-five cents for
each list which he posts. These fees shall be paid out of the treasury
of the county or corporation wherever such lists are made.

5. Any treasurer, clerk, or sheriff failing or refusing to comply with
the provisions of this act shall, upon conviction, be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor, and be punished by a fine of not less than fifty and not
exceeding one thousand dollars.
6. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby
repealed.

%. In view of the fact that certain special or local option elections
will take place before this act can become a law in regular course, an
emergency exists, and this act shall be in force from its passage.