Chap. 44.—An ACT to provide for the rearrangement of voting precincts and
to change the names of the same whenever, by annexation proceedings,
portions of a county have been taken within a city, and providing how
such proceedings shall be paid for. (H. B. 68)

Approved February 11, 1915.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That when-
ever by annexation procecdings portions of a county have been taken
within the limits of a city, necessitating in the opinion of the judge of
the circuit court of said county the rearrangement of the voting precinct
in the same in the said county, it shall be lawful for the Judge of the
said court, in term time or vacation, to change the name of any election
district therein, after the boundaries of any election district therein, and
rearrange, increase or diminish the number thereof; and the said judge
may change the voting places and establish others therein, not to exceed,
however, one voting place for each election district. When an order is
entered under this section, it shall be the duty of the said judge in its
order to designate such new election district or districts by proper and
well defined boundaries. A copy of the order shall be posted without
delay at the courthouse of the county, also at the voting place of an
election district the names or boundaries of which have been changed, and
at each new voting place established, and at any former voting place in
the said county which may be affected by the change; provided, that any
change shall be made in the name of any election district or in any of
the said boundaries or voting places within thirty days next preceding
any general election, nor until notice shall have been posted for thirty
days at the front door of the courthouse and at each voting place in
each election district to be affected by the said change, the cost of secur-
ing the data and maps and the payment of all expenses connected with
such change and rearrangement of the said voting precincts shall be paid
by the board of supervisors of the county in which said election districts
are situated, upon an order of the judge of the circuit court of the said
count

2. ” An emergency existing, this law shall be enforced from its
passage.