The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1882-11-16

| each alternate year, beginning with tne yea
4 1870 ''shall appoint registrar tor eacn Town
ship. ward and voting place" of this County
Also by 8 Of Chap. z, Of said Code, page Az
each of these registrars appointed shall an
nually on the second Tuesday of May, at hi
voting place. proceed to register the names o
| all the qualified voters within his voting dis
uict." This section of thu
| Code, as amended by an act approved Marcel
18TH. 1873 (pages 2l2 and 213. Acts 1877 ant
| '7S) makes it still more clear; as therein tht
! registrar is required to post his advertisement
| for registering voters both in his general dis
trct and his election district.
! In other words the law is very clear anG
| distinct that there must he registrar tor ev-
| cry voting place in the County and that every
voting precinct must 5c distinctly niarkedTby
mees and bnunds ~. - - q
| All law is founded on reason and common
I sense; laws are made more i'll order tp pfereht
than to E,tnist crime
The reason of this law is TO enable every vo-
| ter to conveniently register. and that al;er he
I is registered he can vote but at one place. d
| How does the present state OF things work
| The Registrar keeps book in which he records
| the names Of persons registered by him ; then
he makes copies of this book and sends them
| to the different vol ng places OF his district
| having then tie same l,ei son registered ana
entitled to vote AT five different places. Take
| for instance Pastures District. Mr.. McCutchen,
| the Registrar lives al Craigsville; this year II
| number of persons living in or near Church
vile wanted to register the Registrar opened
his book one dav at Buffalo Gap, place at
| which he does not vote, ami place some IL
| miles, rs we are informed, from Churchville.
| Ii was too far to go. The persons were poor
and could not spare the time to say nothing
OF lack OF conveyances. Again, take Beverly
| Manor. Here there are five voting places, all
within Il lew miles of each other. AS the reg
| istration books now are voter could easily, if
he were ST. disposed, cast a.hallot at each of
| these five voting places. Or he might be II
| man not entitled la vote by reason OF some
| disqualification he might be challenged at one
plsceand his ballot rejected all he would have
| Ia do would be to go a few miles, (not over
| three miles, TO another place, where his DIS
abilities We're unknown and cast his ballot !;
| this has been repeatedly done.
| The law never in the first instance con-
| iemplaled such Inconvenience nor in the sec
| oDd instance 10 open the way for the commits
sion OF such crime. It's intention as well as
| its direct language is that a man shall be er
abled 10 convent, ntly register, and after that
| To he allowed to vote only at One place.
| The law says that tue registrar shall open
| his books at Ats ootiitg ptaee'; how eau he
| comply with tins wncn he has AZ least four and
fire places at which he Cali vote?
| me "nole thihS Is wrong anu must We COT
iec'eo. IL VIZ NC " se'oio "9e"i "'"i ol'po-
| uehie' put 'hcs navy no P,ie'' I" jam. '"'
! themselves IL tiiey hao neeh to'eh' VIC
| "ouiu nave talseu no opjecIiou'
Lev US i"ok 70 s'e no" nus ''ia''el ~ re-
S"idVu III othei counties' III every co"h'9 III
| tie Nailev' anu Ill tne 0'a'e' as we are III
'oriile',' 'he law Is "elns e'iiieu gu. creep. I"
| 4u0usfu In the other counties there is a
| 'oS'e'i"i ~, o0o'g to'"3P feo' an PVi'"i' H"ii
| |ohVeiieh''l ieSistei anu III 10 io' Po9sipio
n Nv, .m ' :" J"',, t ' ,r ', ,ra'.;"n,
| Upon the whole we are satisfied that the
entire poll of the vote for Augusta County
gou'slue Oh the ci,S OF o'a'' ''on' cast on NoY'
| voters mo-, h.vinr h..n le,r.llv ma al and
that your b nrd will st, regard it, and declare
that tie same Shall mol b. counted:
hPspec,Hiy s't"ihi''eu,
Re.,|ins,er Commune .nr Angns,, G.,
| Staunion, Va. Noy. 18th, 'S2.
After consideration the Board adopted, the
| following resolutions to accompany their re-
port to HE Safe Commissioners t'tsa
| Reso1ced, LIST. That the protest of W. E.
| Craig, Chairman OF the Rea'iluster Committee
d., usa oo"y l''S "eeii ii'eu peioie TINS
| OF the woes cast by Aupu,,,, ,,ountv
I'd. That the matters OF fact in regard to the
registrars anu registration OF our County as
.norin i 1',u p,o'os. .'it .oiie' rs 'ne
3D.. That we for passing upon the said
protest, suomi''lns me consideration thereof
ers nr Il, wh,Iever I'VE f,r inc Wo, cnnSi',er
alton OF which the same may be proper.
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.DEAfhs'-Dieu at her nome on Miccle fiVer
oh SATURDAY iast, NJ Is mary NcCue'rehct Oh the
| iate Ooi' D. Oyrus ficOue'and mother OF capt
o. H. Mcoue. Inc deceased was one OF the
hios' ailiapie anu accomplished ladies' OF Au-
The remains were buried at Stone church, on
Sunday last, Rev. Alex. 81 runt conducting
the services. -=sSsisaf 'irfss
On Sunday evening last, at the residence
OF DE- BEL IN Mt. Sidney, Mrs. Margaret
houston, rellct OF the late Col Archer Hous-
ton, died IN her 73d year. She was lady of
hne mind and lovely disposition, and gen.
eral faVorlte among friends and acquaintances.
her surviving children are Mrs. DIR. q. 5.
walker MIS-. Dr. Bell, Mrs. A. M. Effinger, Of
Harrlsonburg,Dr. JAS Houston, of Ala, and A.
Horston nf Nh Tho romo;ns ,,oro ;,,,nrrod
at Harri, onburg, Tuesday, Rev. ]. r. Bow
man, officiating. '''- EL
Died Mt Mr. Wel1er,s near I.nre, am ,as,
Monday evening, MIR. A. g. Pierce formerly
secretary of the East Aupusta Mntual Fire
Insurance Co aped y vearS Ho ,uos II h,,t
a short time. His funeral was preached Of
| the Grove church by the Rev Mr. wi,son ot
| New Hone There xas 1arpe concourse &c
| friends who followed his remains to their last
resting place. His wife and children have the
sympathy of all IN their sad berea yement. I'D
81 90 = - - =
" New GRoCERY One of the neatest and
most attractive establishments in the city is
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