Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1872-04-23
The New Registration Law.

to be held IN Virginia, we publish below the
amended Registration Law, as passed by the
Legislature and approved by the Governor on the
18th of March.
Chapter ls1-An act to amend and re-enac,
sections 5, I, 9 and IL, of an act anproved
April 18th, 1870, entitled an act to provide
for the general registration of voters.
1.-Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Virginia, That section 5, of the act entitled
an act to provide for general registration oi
voters, approved April l2th 1870, and the sew.
enth section OF the same act as amended by an
act approved April 18th, 1870, and furthe,
amended by an act approved April 18th, 1870,
and also the ninth and twelfth sections of the
same act approved April 18th, 1870, be amend.
ed and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
Sec. 5. Each registrar shall, before entering
upon the duties of his Office, take and subscribe
before some officer authorized by law to admins
ter oaths, the oath of Office prescribed in the
Constitution of this State, which oath or affrma-
ton he shall subscribe and file in the clerk Of
flee OF the county and hustings court of bis
pensation of two dollars for each day that he is
sitting as registrar. and one dollar for posting
notices, to be paid out of the county or corpora.
tion treasury.
Sec Z. Each registrar shall annually. on the
second Tuesday in May. at his voting place,
proceed to register the names of all the quail
fed voters within his voting district not pre-
viousy registered in the said district, in accord
anco with the provisions of this act who shall
apply to be registered, commencing at sunrise
and closing at sunset, and shall complete such
registration on the said second Tuesday in May.
Ten days previous to the November elections,
the registrar shall sit one day for the purpose
of amending and correcting the list, at which
time any qualified voter applying and not pre-
viousy registered may be added: provided that
in each city or town having more than two
thousand inhabitants the registrar may sit three
days previous to any State, city, county, OF
township election. The registrars shall give no.
tice of the time and place of all registrations for
at least ten days before each sitting, by posting
written or printed notices thereof at ten or more
public places in their townships, wards and
election districts. And the registrar shall at
any time previous to the regular days of regis
tration register any voter who may apply to
him to be registered and who will be entitled to
vote at the next succeeding election; and the
registrar shall receive the same compensation
for the names so registered on days other than
the regular days of registration that assessors
may be entitled to for listing births and deaths
It shall be the duty of the registrars within Eve
days after each sitting, to have posted at three
or more public places in their townships, wards
and election DISTRICTS written or printed lists of
all persons admitted by them to registration,
and also to have written or printed lists of all
such persons added, posted on each day of elec-
ton, at each place Of voting in their townships,
wards and election districts
Sec 9. Whenever registered voter changes
his place of residence from one voting district
to another, it shall be lawful for him to apply
for, in person or in writing, and it shall be the
duty of the registrar of his former voting dis
trict at any time, whether it be In township,
ward or voting place, to furnish certificate
that he was duly registered. and tina. his name
has, since his removal, been erased from the
registration books of said voting district, which
shall be sufficient evidence to entitle him to
register, and the name Of every such person
shall be entered upon the registration book of
the township, ward or voting place to which
be has removed by the registrar at any time or
by one Of the judges on the day of election !;
provided, that in cities and towns containing
over two thonsand inhabitants, the name Of
such person shall only be entered by the regis
trar on the days named in the seventh section
Sec II If any person shall offer to register,
and shah be rejected by the registrar, he may
take an appeal to the judge Of the county or
hustings court of his county, city or town, in
term time or vacation, and any elector may
challenge the rights Of any person offering to
register; and if ftheregistrar shall allow such chal
lenged person toregster, the said elector may ap-
peal, In like manner to said judge. And it shall
be the duty Of the registrar, on application Of
any person so desiring an appeal, to transmit to
the Judge of the said court, having jurisdiction
over the said voting place, written statement
of the ground relied on by the appellant, and
the reasons relied on by the registrar tor the &C
ton.
1t shall be the duty of said judge to hear evil
dence offered by the said appellant and ap-
pellee; but in case the appeal is by an elector.
contesting the right of any person so register
ing, such person shall have reasonable notice Of
the time and place of hearing said appeal, and
the said judge shall, at least five days previous
to any election, transmit to the registrar from
whose action such appeal was taken his deci-
sion, which shall be entered by the registrar on
his registration books In any case Of appeal
under this section, the court may give or refuse
costs as to it may seem right.
The registrar at each place of voting, shall
deliver to the judges of election his registration
books, previous to any election to be held al
said voting place; and after such election, the
Judges of election shall turn over the registra-
ton books to the registrar, who shall keep and
preserve the same, and the said registration
books shall at all times be open to inspection
IF the registration book ofany voting place shall
from any cause be lost or destroyed, it shall be
the duty of the registrar to report the fact tt
his county or corporation courtjudge, who shal
order re-registration of the qualified voters O
said voting place, specifying the number O
days that the registrar shall sit.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage
UNDoUBTEDLY.-Two bootblacks, one whit
and one black, were standing at the corner do
ing nothing, when the white bootblack agrees
to black the black bootblack' s boots. The blacl
bootblack was of course willing to have hi
boots BACKED by his fellow boot-black, and tn
bootblack who had agreed to black the blacl
bootblack's boots went to work.
When the bootback had BACKED one of th
black bootback's boots, till it shone 10 man
ner that would make any bootblack proud, thi
bootblack who had agreed to black the blacl
bootblack's boot refused to black the othe
boot of the black bootblack until the blacl
bootblack, who had consented to have tn
white bootblack black his boots, should add fiv
cents to the amount the white bootblack ha'
made blacking other mems boots. This tn
bootblack whose boot had been blacked refuses
to do, saying it was good enough for blacl
| bootblack to have one boot BACKED, and b
didn't care whether the boot that the boot
black hadn't BACKED was BACKED or not.
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| the black bootblack' 8 boot as angry as a boot
| black often gets, and he vented his blac
wrath by splitting upon the BACKED boot of tn
black bootblack. This reused the latent pas
sions Of the black bootblaek, and he proceeds
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