Chap. 531.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize
and provide for a new registration of voters in cities having not less t!.an
forty thousand inhabitants, nor more than one hundred and sixty thousand
inhabitants according to the last preceding United States census, approved
March 23, 1923, so as to authorize and provide for a new registration of
voters in cities having not less than fifty thousand inhabitants, nor more than
one hundred and sixty thousand inhabitants according to the last preceding
United States census. [HB 193}

Approved March 25, 1926.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act
entitled an act to authorize and provide for a new registration of
voters in cities having not less than one hundred thousand inhabitants
not more than one hundred and sixty thousand inhabitants according
to the last preceding United States census, approved March twenty-
third, nineteen hundred and twenty-three, be amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:

Section 1. In cities having not less than forty thousand inhabi-
tants, nor more than one hundred and sixty thousand inhabitants,
according to the last preceding United States census, the electoral
board of such city shall provide for a new registration of voters for any
election district, or districts, precinct or precincts, in their respective
cities whenever the said board shall deem it advisable or necessary in
order to simplify or facilitate the conduct of elections, but such new
registration shall not be ordered more frequently than once in every
ten years.

Whenever an order is made by the electoral board for such new
registration of voters in any election district or precinct it shall be the
duty of the registrar of said precinct to give notice of the time and
place of said registration by printed or written hand bills posted at not
less than five places in the election district, at least thirty days before
the day of registration, and shall sit as long as directed by the electoral
board for the purpose of registering all voters who may be entitled to
register under existing laws, and who may apply therefor; provided,
however, that if such new registration be ordered by the electoral
board for any reason other than the destruction by fire, or otherwise,
as provided in section ninety of the Code of Virginia, of the registra-
tion books, then in such new registration no qualified voter who has
registered prior to the first day of January, nineteen hundred and four
or (as to the first new registration) subsequent to August twenty-
sixth, nineteen hundred and twenty, shall again be required to register
as a prerequisite to a right to vote; and provided, further, that in such
said cities, in addition to the posting of notices, as aforesaid, any such
new registration shall be advertised, not less than fifteen days, in one
or more daily papers, published in such city, as may be directed by the
electoral board.

2. An emergency existing because an election will soon be held,
this act shall be in force from its passage.