CHAPTER 130

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 24-225 of the Code of 1950, relating
to who must be present ichen ballots are sealed.
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Approved March 9, 1950

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 24-225 of the Code of 1950 be amended and reenacted
as follows:

§ 24-225. Sealing ballots.—The board shall thereupon desig-
nate one of its members or some other person, who shall cause the
seal of the board to be affixed in his presence to every ballot
printed as provided in this chapter, upon the side reverse from
that upon which the names of the candidates appear. Such mem-
ber of the board or other person designated shall make affidavit
that the seal of the electoral board was affixed to the ballots in his
presence in the manner prescribed by law, in which affidavit shall
be set forth the name of every person taking part in the affixing
of the seal; and the affidavit shall be filed with the board and a
copy thereof entered upon the minutes of the board. For his
services In causing the seal to be affixed to the ballots, the member
of the board or other person designated shall receive six dollars.

Any person not a member of the board so designated, before
entering on the performance of such duties, shall take an oath that
he will faithfully execute the same.