Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1911-04-14
Law GOVERNING IS
BOND ELECTION


re-enact section OF of the Code. pre-
scribing the qualifications of voters in
special and local option elections
Approved February %, 1908.
L. BE it enacted by the general as
sembly of Virginia, Tha. section six
ty-two of chapter eight of the Code
OF Virginia, as amended Ivy an act
approved March twelfth, nineteen
hundred and four, entitled can net to
amend and re-enact section sixty-two
OF chapter eight of the Code of Vir-
ginia, rs amended by an act approved
December eighth, nineteen hundred
and three. be amended and re- enacted
so as to read as follows:
Section 50. Qualifications of voters,
disqunlilicatious. Every male citizen
of the United States, twenty.onc
years old, who has been n resident
of the State for two years, of the
county. city or town one year, and of
the precinct in which he offers to
vote thirty days next preceding the
ELECTION. and who has been duly reg
lstered and has paid his State poll
tax, rs required by law, and is other
wise qualified under the Constitution.
and laws of this State, shall be en-
titled to vote for members of the
general assembly and all officers cleo
ted by the people; but the removal
from one precinct TO another in the
same county, city oil town shall not
deprive any person of his right to
vote in the precinct from which he
has moved until the expiration of
thirty days from such removal: mo-
vided that the following persons shall
he excluded from registering and vot-
ing: Idiots, insane persons, and pau
pers; persons who, prior to the adop-
tion of the Constitution, were dis
qualified from voting by conviction of
crime, either within or without this
State. and whose disabilities shall not
have been removcd persons convicted
after tho adoption of the Constitu-
tion, either within or without this
state; of treason, or of felony, brib.
cry petit larceny, obtaining money
or other property under false pre-
lenses, embe2zement, forgery, or
perjury; persons, who, while citizens
OF this state, after the adoption of
the Constitution, have fought n duel
with deadly weapon, or sent or ac-
cepted challenge to fight such n
duel either within or without this
state, or knowingly conveyed a thal-
longe, or aided or assisted in any
way in the fighting of such duel pro-
vided, also, that no officer soldier,
seaman, or marine of the United
States army or navy shall be deemed
to have gained n residence as to the
right of suffrage in the Stale, or in
any county, city or town thereof, by
reason of his being stationed therein,
nor shall any inmate of any charitable
institution or student in any institu-
ton of learning be regarded as hav-
ing either gained or lost residence,
MS to the right of suffrage, by reason
of his location, or sojourn in such in
stituton. s
The qualifications of voters at any
special election or any local option
election shall be such as are herin-
above prescribed for voters at general
elections provided, that Mt any such
special or local option election held
on or before the second Tuesday i'm
June in any year any proson shall be
qualified to vote who is otherwise
qualified and has personally paid at
least six months prior to the second
Tuesday in June of that year all
state poll tax assessed. or assessable,
against him during the three years
next preceding that in which such
special or local option election is
held; and, provided, that at any such
special or local option election held
after the second Tuesday in June in
any year any person shall be qualified
to vote who is, or was, qualified to
vote at the regular election held on
the Tuesday after he first Monday in
November of that year. The term,
special election, as used in this sec
ton, shall be construed to include
such elections as are held in pursu-
ance of special law as well as such
as are held to fill vacancy in any
Office, whether the same be flied by
the qualified voters of the State or of
any county, corporation, magisterial
district or ward.
2. All acts or parts of acts incon-
slsent with this act are hereby re-
pealed
8. In view of the fact that certain
special or local option elections will
take place before this act can become
law in regular course. an emergen-
cy exists, and this act shall be in
force from it's passage.
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