The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-04-10
Amendments TO the Registration Law

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days of the regular session, passed an act
which has been approved by the Governor
amending and reenacting sections 5, Z, g.
and II of the general registration law sc
as to read as follows:
''SECTIoN 5. Each registrar shall, before
entering upon the duties of his office, take
and subscribe before some officer author
lied by law to administer oaths the oath OF
office prescribed in the constitution of this
State I; which oath or affirmation he shall
subscribe and file in the clerks Office OF
the County or Hastings Court of his couu-
ty or corporation. He shall receive COM
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 coun-
ty or corporation treasury.
'SECTIoN Z. Each registrar shall an
nually, on the second Tuesday in May, at
his voting place, proceed to register the
names of all the qualified voters within his
voting district, not previously registered in
the said district, in accordance 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 ap-
plying and not previously registered may
be added: Prorided, That in each city or
town having more than two thousand in
habitants the registrar may sit three days
previous to any state, city, county, or
township election. The registrars shall
give notice 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 town
ships, wards, and election districts. And
the registrar shall, at any time previous to
the regular days of registration, register
any voter who may apply to him to be re-
gistered and who will be entitled to vote
at the next succeeding election; and the
registrar Shall receive the same compensa-
ton 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. 1t shall be the duty of
the registrars, within five days after each sit
ting, to have posted at three or more pub
lie places in their townships, wards, or
election districts, written or printed lists of
all persons admitted by them to registra-
ton, and also to have written or printed
lists of all such persons added, posted on
each day of election at each place of voting
in their townships, wards, and election dis
tricts.
"SECTIoN 8. Whenever registered
voter changes his place of residence from
one voting district to another, it shall be law
ful for him to apply for, in person or in
writing, and it shall be the duty of the
registrar of his former voting district at any
time. whether it be in township, ward,
or voting place, to furnish, acertifcate that
he was duly registered, and that his name
has since his removal been erased from the
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 he has removed,
by the registrar at any time, or by one of
the judges on the day Of election. Pro-
Uided, That i'll cities and towns contain
ing over two thousand inhabitants, the
name of such person shall only be entered
by the registrar on the days named in the
seventh section.
SECTION II. If any person shall offer
to register and shall be rejected by the
registrar, he may take an appeal to the
judge of the County or Hastings court of
his county, city, or town, in term time or
vacation, and any elector may challenge
the right of any person offering to regis
ter; and if the registrar shall allow such
challenged person to register, the said
alactor now apnaaI II, III, n n,opnor In g,;l
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 votins-place, a written statement
of tho ground relied on by the appellant,
and the reasons relied on by the registrar,
for his action.
"It shall be the duty of said Judge to
hear evidence offered by the said appellant
and appellee; but in case the appeal is by
an elector, contesting the right of any
person so registering, 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
decision, 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 at said voting place and after
such election the judges of election shall
turn over the registration 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 of any yoting-place shall
from any cause be lost or destroyed, it
shall be the duty of the registrar to report
the fact to his County or Corporation Court
judge, who shall order reregstration of
the qualified voters of said voting-place,
specifying the number of days that the
registrar shall sit"
UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT
Judge Underwood, presidisg.-In the case
Of A. j. Byrne VS.. Rush Burgess, suit
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