Chap. 1.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act entitled “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,” approved March 2, 1922, as
heretofore amended. [S B 16]

Approved February 3, 1936

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
five of an act entitled “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 twentieth, nineteen hundred and twenty,” approved March
second, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, as heretofore amended, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 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 the general registrar an annual salary
for performing the duties required of him; in a city of less than fifty
thousand population, as shown by the last preceding United States
census, the annual salary of such general registrar shall be such
amount as may be fixed by the council; in a city of fifty thousand or
more population, as shown by the last preceding United States census,
such annual salary shall be not less than two thousand dollars.

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