Chap. 422.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act to provide for the
registration of voters in cities having a population of fifty thousand or more,
approved March 2, 1922, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March

29, 1923. [H B 265]
- Approved March 21, 1924.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
one of an act to provide for the registration of voters in cities having a
population of fifty thousand or more, approved March second, nineteen
hundred and twenty-two, as amended by an act approved March
twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and twenty-three, be amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 1. The electoral board of each city having a population of
fifty thousand or more may, in its discretion, prior to the first day of
Apnil, nineteen hundred and twenty-three, and every alternate year
thereafter, appoint a general registrar for such city, who shall be a dis-
creet citizen and resident of the city for which he is appointed, and such
registrar shall not hold any other office, by election or appointment,
during his term. The council of any city, however, with the consent of
the electoral board of the city, may impose other duties upon the reg-
istrar, provided such other duties do not conflict with his duties as reg-
istrar. Said registrar shall hold office for two years from the first day
of May following his appointment, and until his successor is duly quali-
fied, 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, cxcept that
in cities of more than fifty thousand and less than sixty thousand in-
habitants 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, and except that in cities of more than one hundred
and seventy thousand inhabitants, the appointment of such general
registrar shall automatically abolish the office of registrar in each elec-
tion district in such city, now provided for by law, as of March twenty-
ninth, nineteen hundred and twenty-three, if such appointment was
theretofore made, or as of the date of such appointment, if thereafter
made. Each of such registrars mentioned in the preceding sentence,
upon the appointment of the general registrar provided for in this act, or
the abolition of his office, shall deliver to said registrar, all books, pa-
pers, and documents pertaining to their respective offices.