Chap. 207.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act of the General Assembly
entitled an act to provide for closing the registration books fifteen days
before any special or primary election in cities of not less than 100,000, having
a general registrar, approved March 23, 1923, so as to make it apply to cities
of not less than 50,000 population, approved February 21, 1928. [H B 313]

Approved March 27, 1934

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That an act
of the General Assembly, entitled an act to provide for closing the
registration books fifteen days before any special or primary election
in cities of not less than one hundred thousand, having a general reg-
istrar, approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and twenty-
three, so as to make it apply to cities of not less than fifty thousand
population, approved February twenty-first, nineteen hundred and
twenty-eight, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 1. In cities having a population not less than fifty thousan¢
inhabitants, according to the last preceding census, and having a general
registrar, the registration books for all voting districts or precincts in
such cities shall be closed for the purpose of registering and transfer-
ring voters, for a period of fifteen days next preceding the day of
any special or primary election.

2. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its passage