Chap. 410.—An ACT to amend and reenact Chapter 291 of the Acts of Assembly
of 1942, approved March 30, 1942, providing for the appointment of registrars
in certain counties. Te 202]

“Approved April 1, 1948

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That chapter two hundred ninety-one of the Acts of Assembly
of nineteen hundred forty-two, approved March thirty, nineteen hundred
forty-two, be amended and reenacted as follows: -

The electoral board of any county having a density of population
of two thousand or more per square mile, according to the last preceding
United States census, shall have authority to, and, upon appropriate reso-
lution by the board of supervisors or other governing body, shall appoint
a general registrar for such county, who shall be in addition to the reg-
istrars appointed as provided by law for the several election districts of
such county, and shall be a discreet citizen and resident of said county.
Such general registrar shall be appointed for a term of two years,
beginning on the first day of May next following his appointment, and
shall not hold any elective office at any time during his term of office of
general registrar, but may perform any other duties assigned to him by’
such board of supervisors or governing body. The electoral board may
appoint some qualified person already in the employ of the county. He
shall maintain and keep open during the regular office hours of the
county offices, an office or place in such county court house to be pro-
vided by said governing body where any voter of the county may
register, and upon any voter so registering before him, he shall promptly
certify the same to the registrar of the voting district of which the
registrant is a resident, and such registrar shall enter the same on his
proper registration book and file such certificate among his records.
Such general registrar shall not receive any fees for his services
as such, but he may be paid a salary for his services, to be fixed by such
board or governing body. The registrar of the election district of which
the registrant is a. resident, for registering a voter on any such certifi-
cate, shall, however, receive the same compensation as if such voter had
registered before him in the first place. The general registrar appointed
pursuant to this act shall transmit each absent voter’s ballot received by
him to the registrar of the election district in which such absent voter is
registered. The general registrar shall not open any such ballot, and
when it has been received by the district registrar he shall proceed as
though the ballot had been originally directed to, and received by, him.
The electoral board of the county may appoint, subject to the same
conditions as restrict the appointment of a general registrar hereunder,
an assistant registrar to the general registrar. The assistant registrar
may be chosen from other registrars, if any, of the county. Such assistant
registrar shall perform such duties and receive such compensation as may
be required and provided by the electoral board and county governing
body respectively.
2. An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.