Chap. 76.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 109 of the Code of Virginia,
as heretofore amended, relating to lists of persons who have paid poll taxes, etc.

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Approved March 2, 1934

I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
one hundred and nine of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 109. List of all persons who have paid their State poll taxes
shall be made by treasurer ; duties of clerk in reference thereto; posting
thereof by the sheriff or sergeant—The treasurer of each county and
city shall, at least five months before the second Tuesday in June in
each year in which a regular June election is to be held in such county
or city, and at least five months before each regular election in Novem-
ber, file with the clerk of the circuit court of his county or the corpora-
tion court of his city a list of all persons in his county, or city, who
have paid not later than six months prior to each of said dates the
State poll taxes required by the Constitution of this State during three
years next preceding that in which such election is to be held, which
list shall state the white and colored persons separately, and shall be
verified by the oath of the treasurer. The clerk within ten days from
the receipt of the list, shall make and certify a sufficient number of
copies thereof, and shall deliver one copy for each voting place in his
county or city to the sheriff of the county or sergeant of the city,
whose duty it shall be to post one copy without delay, at each of the
voting places and within ten days from the receipt thereof to make
return on oath to the clerk as to the places where and dates at which
said copies were respectively posted; which return the clerk shall record
in a book kept in his office for the purpose; and he shall keep in his
office for public inspection, for at least sixty days after receiving the
list, not less than ten certified copies thereof.