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

AN ACT.
To provide foa voting by persons in the military
vice. and persons absent from their respective cOun-
ties and corporations, account of the presence of
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 1850.
Passed March Is, 1868.
L. Be it enacted by the General Assembly, that dur
ing the present the qualified voters OF the Com
monwealth who may be the military service of the
State of the Confederate States the day of any
general or peial election for members OF the House
of Representatives of the Confederat States or of
election for Governor, Lieutenant Governor and At
torney General of this State, may vote in such elec
tion at such place places within their regiment as
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 eommandant Of the
regiment shall detail superintendent, three commits
slonels and as many clerks as shall be necessary
after being first duly sworn by him, shall perform the
duties required Of and be liable to the penalties i'm
posed upon snch officers by the election laws of the
State The qualified voters in any company or bat
talion unattached, or detached service may vote
IN like manner tho officer in command detailing SIM
liar officers to perform similar duties who shall be liza
bic to like penalties The said commissioners shall
open polls on the day of any such election for mem
bers OF Congress- oa each district entitled to represen
taton in said Congress- for which there shall be voters
in said regiment, battalion company desiring to
vote and on the day of any election for Governor,
Lieutenant Governor and Attorney General they shall
also open polls for such last named officers The quail
ifed 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 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 an cleo
ton for such last named officers shall be held; and
when the polls taken aforesaid shalle closed the
commissioners holding the said election shall make
and certify statement of the said polls to the senior
officer commanding the troops at the point where such
regiment may be, if there be any such officer, and il
not, then to the commandant of the regiment unat-
tached detached battalion or company, who shall
appoint some person whose duty shall be to take all
the polls and statements which may have been ta
ken and certified to the Secretary of the Common.
wealth. within fifteen days after the commencement OF
such election.
g. The qualified voters of any county corporation
absent thererom because of the the public
enemy on the day appointed for any such election
is mentioned in the first section, may, during the
listing war vote in any such election IN which they
would be entitled to vote II IN the county or corpora
ton of their domlc the courthouse of any county
corporation in the State where they may happen
be the day of said election. Ii any other election
is held at the same time, the officers holding said eec
tion shall omen the poll and receive the votes hereir
authorized to be polled prescribed by law in case
of other eIectons but other election be then heC
than such at which the persons mentioned IN this
on authorized to vote, then poll snail be opened
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string to vote such election shall make oath before
the clerk or other officers conducting the election tina
he believes he would be entitled to vote therein if il
the county corporation Of his dOmic and thereup
his vote shall be recorded on the proper poll. Whe1
such polls shall be closed the officer conducting thu
election shall certify the result and the correctness
the polls the foot thereof, and shall transmit sucf
poll book so certified by mall preparing the postage
thereon, to the Secretary of the Commonwealth, with
in fifteen days after the OF the election
Be 1t further enacted that third section of chap
ter eight of Code of Virginia. edition OF eighteen hun
dred and sixty be amended and re-enacted so as tt
read as follows:
SEc g. In cases of elections for election districts
or Senatorial or Congressional districts, the commits
soners experimenting the election at the Court Hou
ses of the several counties or corporations forming
such districts SHALL within three days after such cleo
of election in said dc county, GrsH to be soe
in SAID county and striking thererom such votes al
to be stricken h to tn
said county or to such other officers as may legally
act for him which said statement shall be wrttenil
words and not in figures and shall conform al
may be to the form of the return required to be made