Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-03-25
ELECTORAL BOARDS

The act ito provide for the manner of
choosing registrars and judges and clerks of
election for the several counties and cities Of
the Commonwealth, and to repeal sections
8 and "a Of chapter s, and sections and 8
of chapter of the Code of 1873, in force
February IA, 1884," says:
THAT the offices of all the registrars and
Judges, clerks and commissioners Of election
in each county and city of this Common
wealth shall become and be vacant as soon
as their successors in office. as hereinafter
provided for, have been appointed and quail
fled and that the General Assembly Shall
during the session of the Legislature of
1894, and every four years thereafter, pro-
coed to elect three qualified voters, who
shall be freeholders and residents Of each
county and city for which they are appoint
ed in this commonwealth, to be known as
the County or City Electoral Board, as the
case may be, who shall go into Office on the
lst day of March succeeding their election
or as soon thereafter as possible having
first taken and subscribed the usual oath OF
Office prescribed for city and county officers,
and whose term of Office shall continue for
four years, or until their successors are duly
elected and qualified.
- The said Board shall elect ono of their
number chairman and another secretary.
Any two shall constitute quorum for the
transaction Of business, and any vacancy
occurring in any of said Electoral Boards
during the recess of the Legislature shall be
filed by the remaining members or member
of the Board, and the person so chosen
shall remain in Office until the end of the
term of the person in whose stead he was
chosen.
SO. The General Assembly may elect said
Electoral Boards for each and all the couu-
ties and cities by one or more joint resolu-
tions, as the General Assembly may see fit.
81 The said Electoral Boards for each
city and county shall have the power, and
it shall be their duty, to proceed to fill the
offices of registrars, judges, and clerks of
election, in the manner provided for in this
act
IS. 1t shall be the duty of the Electoral
Board of each city and county at some time
prior to the 1st day of April in each year to
select and appoint three competent male cit
liens, who shall be qualified voters, for each
voting place in their respective counties and
cities who, when so selected and appointed,
shall, constitute the judges of election for all
elections to be held in their respective dis
tricts precincts, or wards for the term Of
one year, dating from their appointment,
and who shall have power to appoint two
clerks for each place of voting at such cleo
ton, to whom shall be administered by the
Judges, or either of them, the same oath as
that taken by the said judges. 1t shall be
the duty of each Of said Electoral Boards,
biennially at the same time to appoint
registrar for each voting place of their re-
spective counties and cities, who shall be
discreet citizen, and resident of the magis-
terial district or ward to which he is ap.
pointed, and who shall hold Office for the
term of two years from the 1st day of April
following their appointment and until their
successors areduly appointed and qualify"
&C., &C., &c.
The remainder of the act relates to the
duties of the officers mentioned
The Electoral Boards should qualified be-
fore their county or city or circuit judge.