Chap. 111.—An ACT to provide for the registration of voters in cities having
a population of fifty thousand or more; and to repeal an act entitled an act
to provide for the registration of voters in cities having a population of
one hundred thousand or more, approved March 20, 1920. [H B 181]

Approved March 2, 1922.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the electoral board of each city having a population of fifty thousand
or more may, in its discretion, prior to the first day of April, nineteen
hundred and twenty-three, and every alternate vear thereafter, ap-
point a general registrar for such city, who shall be a discreet citizen
and resident of the city for which he is appointed, and such registrar
shall not hold any other office, by election or appointments, during
his term. Said registrar shall hold office for two years from the
first day of May following his appointment, and until his successor is
duly qualified, except as provided in section six of this act. The
appointment of such general registrar shall be in addition to the
office of registrar in each election district in such city now provided
for by law, except that in cities of more than fifty thousand and less
than sixty thousand inhabitants the appointment of such general
registrar shall automatically abolish the office of registrar in each
election district in such city now provided for by law; but each of
such registrars, upon the appointment of the general registrar pro-
vided for in this act shall deliver to said registrar all books, papers,
and documents pertaining to their respective offices.

2. Such general registrar, subject to the approval of the electoral
board, may appoint such assistants as may be necessary for the
performance of the duties of his office, and said assistants are hereby
authorized to do all things necessary for the registration of qualified
voters, and their compensation shall be fixed and paid as the com-
pensation and salaries of other city officers are fixed and paid.

3. It shall be the duty of said general registrar to maintain in the
city hall, or other municipal building, of the city for which he is ap-
pointed, an office wherein all qualified voters of such city may be
registered.

4. Such general registrar shall keep separate registration books
for each election district in said city, and, except as otherwise pro-
vided in this act, perform all of the duties now required by law to
be performed by the registrars of the election districts of said city.

5. The city for which he is appointed shall furnish the general
registrar a suitable office in the city hall, or other municipal building,
of said city. All fees collected by the general registrar, or any of
his assistants, shall be paid into the city treasury, and the council
of the city shall allow said general registrar an annual salary for
performing the duties required of him.

6. If.any electoral board shall appoint a general registrar in
pursuance of this act, it may, at the expiration of the term of any
such general registrar, abolish such office by declining to appoint a
successor and giving notice of such intention to the incumbent, if any,
in which event the preceding sections of this act shall cease to be
operative in such city, and the registration of voters in such city
thereafter shall in all respects conform to the general law (other than
this act) then in force. ,

7. An act entitled an act to provide for the registration of voters
in cities having a population of one hundred thousand or more, ap-
proved March twentieth, nineteen hundred and twenty, is hereby
repealed.