CHAP. 420.—An ACT to amend and’ re-enact Section 1 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. [H B 345]

Approved “pre 1, aS

, 1 Be it enacted by the General vusseslihy of Virginia, That section
one 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, nine-
teen hundred and twenty-two, as ‘heretofore amended, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 1. The electoral board of’ eacti city having a population
of fifteen thousand or more, according to the last preceding United
States census, may, in its discretion, prior to the first day of April,
nineteen hundred and twenty-three, and every alternate year thereafter,
appoint a general registrar for such city, who shall be a discreet 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 registrar,
provided such other duties do not conflict with his duties as registrar.
Said registrar shall hold office for two years from the first day of May
following his appointment,.and until his successor is duly qualified,
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. said city now ‘provided for by law, except that in
cities of more than fifteen thousand and less than sixty thousand in-
habitants according to the last preceding United States census the ap-
pointment 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
twenty-nine thousand inhabitants, according to the last preceding United
States census, the appointment of such general registrar shall auto-
matically abolish the office of registrar in each election district in said.
city, now provided for by law, as of March, 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 a general
registrar, provided for in this act, or the abolition of his office, shall
deliver to said registrar, all books, papers and documents pertaining to
their respective offices. _ :