Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1863-05-19
A N ACT,

AN ACT.
To provide fol voting by persons the military SER
vice, and persons absent from heir RESPECTIVE
ties and corporations, of the presence OF
the public enemy, in elections for members of Con-
gress, and for Governor, Lieutenant Governor and
Attorney General, ana tog members OF the Henerai
Assembly, ami TO amend and enact the third ses-
tion of chapter eight the Code of Virginia, edition
of 1850.
Passed March 26, 1868.
L. Be 1t enacted by the General Assembly, that dur
ing the present Wgr the qualified voters OF the Com
monwealth, who may be the military service OF ths
State Of the Confederate States the day of any
general spe election for members of the House
of Representatives the Confederate States of any
election Tor Governor, Lieutenant Governor and At
torney General of this State, may vote such cleo
tion at such place places within their regiment
the oomman dant OF such regiment shall designate
whether such regiment be within the limits OF thi!
State not
2. For each place of voting the commandant of thG
regiment shall detail superintendent, three commits
stone and many clerks as shall be necessary who
after being first duly by him, shall perform the
duties required of and liable to the penalties i'm
posed upon snch ulcers by the election laws of the
State The qualified voters in any company or bat
talion unattached, ON detached service, may vote
In like manner, the officer In command detailing sim
liar officers to perform similar duties who shall be a
BILE to like penalties. The said commissioners shall
|open polsSn the day of any such election for mem
bers Congress- ioa each district entitled to represen
tation in said Congress- for hch there shall be
IN said regiment, battalion company desiring tt
$ote and on the day OF any election tor Governor
Lieutenant Governor and Attorney General they shall
also open polls tor such last named officers The quail
ifed voters no present themselves to Vote shall be
asked by said mssioners from what district they
come, and each voSer shall vote for person to repre-
sent the district from which ne and his name
shall be recorded on the poll book opened for that dis
trict, and also the poll book for Governor, Lieu
tenant Governor and Attorney General, when cleo
ton last named officers shall be held; and
when the polls aforesaid shall be closed the
commissioners holding the said election shall make
and certify statement OF the said polls to the senior
officer commanding the troops at point where sucl
regiment may be, if there be any such officer and
not, then to the commandant OF the regiment, unat
tached or detached battalion company, who shall
appoint person whose duty it shall be to take al
the polls and statements which may have been Ia
ken and certified to the Secretary OF the Common
wealth, within fifteen days after the
such election.
g. The qualified voters Of any county corporation
absent herefrom because OF the presence OF the pub
enemy, the Gay appointed for any such election
is mentioned in the first section, may, during the ex
isting vote ii any such election IN which the-
would be entitled to vote ii IN the county or corpora
ton of their domlo the courthouse OF any county
corporation the State where they may happen t.
be on the day OF said election. If any other election
is held at the time, the officers holding SAID cleo
ton shall open the poll and receive the votes herein
authorized to be pOled as prescribed Dy law In case
of other elecons but if other election De tnen hell
than such at which the persons mentioned IN this
ton authorized to vote, then poll shall be opene
by the clerk of the equity court Any such person de
string to in such eection shall make oath befor
the CLERK other officers conducting the elections tha
he believes he would be entitled to vote therein If
the county corporation OF his domici and thereup
on his shall be recorded on the proper poll Whe
such polls shall be closed, the officer conducting tn
election shall certify the result and the correctness
polls the loot thereof and shall transmit suc
poll book certified by mail, prepay1ng the postag
thereon to the Secretary OF the CommonWealth with
in fifteen days after the commencement OF the election
Be 1t further enacted tllatthe third section of chap
ter eight OF Code of Vrginla edition OF eighteen hun
dfed and sixty, be amended and re-enacIed so as t
read as follows:
"SEc B. Ia cases of elections for election districts
or Senatorial or Congressonal districts, the commits
sioners experimenting the election at The Court Hor
ses Of the several counties or corporations formin
such districts SHALL within three days after such ee,
ton is concluded, deliver cerdhed statement OF th
result of the election in said nty to be ascertane
by comparing the polls OF the different Totlng place
! in SAID county, and striking thererom such votes
are required by law to be stricken thereirom to tt
officer conducting the election at The Court-house
said county, or 10 such other officers as may legal
act for him which said staten snt shall be written
words ana not in figures, aud sia conform as lear:
may be to the fol of the return required to be mae