Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1863-04-28
A N ACT.

A N ACT.
To provide foa voting by persons in the military
vice. and persons absent from heir respective coun
ties and corporations, on of the presence
the public enemy, in elections for members of Con
gress, and for Governor, Lieutenant Governor and
Attorney General and for members of the General
Assembly, and to amend and enact the third sec
ton of chapter eight OF the Code OF Virginia, edition
of 1860.
Passed March e. 1868.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly that dur
ing the present war the qualified voters of the Com.
monwealth who may be the military service OF the
State of the Confederate States on the day Of any
general or special election for members Of the House
Representatives of the Confederate States of any
election for Governor, Lieutenant Governor and At
torney General of this State, may vote in such cleo
tion at such place places within their regiment
the comman dant of such regiment shall designate
whether such regiment be within the limits of this
State or not.
q For each place of voting the commandant of the
regiment shall detail superintendent, three commits
stone and many clerks shall be necessary, who
after being first duly by him. shall perform the
duties required Of and be liable to the penalties i'm
posed upon sneh officers by the election laws of the
State. The qualified voters in any company or bat
talion unattached, detached service, may vote
in like manner the officer in command detailing sim
liar officers perform similar duties who shall be liza
BILE to like penalties The said commissioners shall
open polls on the day Of any suoh election for mem
tation in said Congress- for hich there shall be
in SAID regiment, battalion company desiring te
vote and on the day of any election for Governor
Lieutenant Governor and Attorney General they shall
also open polls tor such last ed officers The DUAL
flied voters who present themselves to vote, shall be
asked by said commissioners from what district they
come, and each voter shall vote for person to repre-
sent the district from which he comes and his name
shall be recorded the poll book opened for that dis
trict and also the poll book for Governor, Lieu
tenant Governor and Attorney General when elec
ton or such last named ohcers shall be held; and
when the polls taken aforesaid shall be closed the
commissioners holding the said election shall make
and certify statement of the said polls to the
officer commanding the troops at the point where such
regiment NAV be- if there be any such officer and il
not then to the commandant Of the regiment unat-
tacbed or detached battalion company, who shall
appoint person whose duty 1t shall be to take all
the polls and statements which may have been so ta
ken and certified to the Secretary of the Common.
wealth, within fifteen days after the commencement Of
such election.
The led voters of any county or corporation
absent therefrom because of the presence OF the public
enemy on the day appointed for any such election
is mentioned in the first section may, during the ex
isting war vote in any such eli ction In which they
would be entitled vote if in the county corpora
ton of their dom1cl at the OF any county
or corporation in the State where they may happen to
be on the day of said election any other election
is held at the same tme the officers holding said elec
ton shall open the poll and receive the votes herein
authorized to be poed as by law IN cases
of other elections but if other election be then held
than such at which the persons mentioned in this
ton are authorized to vote, then poll shall be opened
by the clerk of the county court ANY such person de-
string to vote in such election shall make oath before
the CLERK or other officers conducting the election thai
he believes he would be entitled to therein if
the county or corporation of his domicil and hereup
on his vote shall be recorded on the proper poll Wher
such polls shall be closed, the officer conducting the
election shall certify the result and the correctness
the polls at the foot thereof and shall transmit such
poll book SO certified by mall prepaying the postage
thereon to the Secretary of the Commonwealth, with
in fifteen days after the commencement OF the election
Be 1t further enacted that the third section of chap
ter eight of Code of Virginia, edition OF eighteen hun
dred and sixty, be amended and re-enacted so te
read as follows:
Sgc 8. In cases of elections for election districts
or Senatorial or Congressional districts, the commits
sioners superintendng the election at the Court Hou
ses of the several counties or corporations forming
such districts SHALL within three days after such eec
ton is concluded, deliver certified statement of thu
result of the election in said county to be ascertanet
by Comparing the polls of the different voting place
in SAID county aud striking thererom such votes al
are required by law to be stricken therefrom, to th
officer CONDUCTING the election at the Courthouse 0
said county, to such other officers as may legally
words and not in figures, aud shall conform
may be to the form Of the return required to be made