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As Amended 1891-2, p. 56.

The city of Staunton and the counties of Augusta, Highland, Bath, Alleghany, Rockbridge, Amherst, Nelson, Appomattox, Buckingham, Fluvanna, Cumberland, and Botetourt shall form the tenth congressional district.

Sec. 58. When members of house of delegates elected; apportion= ment therefor.-The members of the house of delegates shall be elected on the Tuesday succeeding the first monday in November, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and biennially thereafter on the Tuesday succeeding the first Monday in November, and be distributed and apportioned as follows:

Accomac shall have one delegate.

Albemarle and city of Charlottesville shall have two delegates.

Alexandria city and county shall have one delegate.

Alleghany, Bath, and Highland shall have one delegate.

Amherst shall have one delegate.

Augusta and city of Staunton shall have two delegates.

Bedford shall have two delegates.
Botetourt shall have one delegate.

Brunswick shall have one delegate.

Buchanan, Dickenson, and Wise shall have one delegate.
Buckingham and Cumberland shall have one delegate.
Campbell shall have one delegate.

Campbell and Appomattox shall have one delegate.

Caroline shall have one delegate.

Carroll shall have one delegate.

Charlotte shall have one delegate.

Chesterfield, Manchester, and Powhatan shall have two delegates.

City of Lynchburg shall have one delegate.

Clarke and Warren shall have one delegate.

Craig, Roanoke city and county shall have two delegates.

Culpeper shall have one delegate.

Dinwiddie shall have one delegate.

Elizabeth City and Accomac shall have one delegate.

Essex and Middlesex shall have one delegate.

Fairfax shall have one delegate.

Fauquier shall have one delegate.

Floyd and Franklin shall have one delegate.

Fluvanna and Goochland shall have one delegate.

Franklin shall have one delegate.

Frederick and Winchester city shall have one delegate.

Gloucester and Mathews shall have one delegate.

Grayson shall have cne delegate.

Greene and Madison shall have one delegate.

Greenesville and Sussex shall have one delegate.

Halifax shall have two delegates.

Hanover shall have one delegate.

Henrico shall have one delegate.

Henry shall have one delegate.

Isle of Wight shall have one delegate.

King and Queen shall have one delegate.

King William and Hanover shall have one delegate.
Lancaster and Richmond shall have one delegate.
Lee shall have one delegate.

Loudoun shall have one delegate.

Loudoun and Fauquier shall have one delegate.

Louisa shall have one delegate.

Lunenburg shall have one delegate.

Mecklenburg shall have one delegate.

Montgomery shall have one delegate.
Nansemond shall have one delegate.

Nelson shall have one delegate.

New Kent, Charles City, James City, York, Warwick, and city of Williamsburg shall have one delegate.

Norfolk city shall have two delegates.

Norfolk county shall have one delegate.

Northampton and Accomac shall have one delegate.

Northumberland and Westmoreland shall have one delegate.

Nottoway and Amelia shall have one delegate.

Orange shall have one delegate.

Page and Rappahannock shall have one delegate.

Patrick shall have one delegate.

Petersburg city shall have two delegates.

Pittsylvania and city of Danville shall have four delegates.

Portsmouth shall have one delegate.

Princess Anne shall have one delegate.

Prince Edward shall have one delegate.

Prince George and Surry shall have one delegate.

Prince William shall have one delegate.

Pulaski and Giles shall have one delegate.

Rappahannock shall have one delegate.

Richmond city shall have five delegates.
Rockbridge shall have two delegates.
Rockingham shall have two delegates.
Russell shall have one delegate.
Scott shall have one delegate.

Shenandoah shall have one delegate.

Southampton shall have one delegate.

Smyth and Bland shall have one delegate.

Spotsylvania and city of Fredericksburg shall have one delegate.

Stafford and King George shall have one delegate.

Tazewell shall have one delegate.

Washington shall have two delegates.

Wythe shall have one delegate.

Sec. 59. The senate; apportionment therefor.-The state shall be As Amended divided into thirty-nine districts, entitled to senators as follows:

Washington and Smyth shall form the first district, and be entitled to one senator.

Scott, Lee, and Wise shall form the second district, and be entitled to one senator.

Russell, Buchanan, Dickenson, and Tazewell shall form the third district, and be entitled to one senator.

Montgomery, Roanoke, Roanoke city, and Craig shall form the fourth district, and be entitled to one senator.

Pulaski, Wythe, Bland, and Giles shall form the fifth district, and be entitled to one senator.

Carroll, Grayson, and Patrick shall form the sixth district, and be entitled to one senator.

Rockbridge, Botetourt, Alleghany, Bath, and Highland shall form the seventh district, and be entitled to one senator.

1891-2, p. 56.

Rockingham shall form the eighth district, and be entitled to one sena

tor.

Augusta and Staunton shall form the ninth district, and be entitled to one senator.

Shenandoah, Frederick, and Winchester shall form the tenth district, and be entitled to one senator.

Fauquier and Loudoun shall form the eleventh district, and be entitled to one senator.

Clarke, Page, and Warren shall form the twelfth district, and be entitled to one senator.

Spotsylvania, Stafford, Louisa, and Fredericksburg shall form the thirteenth district, and be entitled to one senator.

Alexandria, Fairfax, Prince William, and Alexandria city shall form the fourteenth district, and be entitled to one senator.

Culpeper, Rappahannock, Madison, and Orange shall form the fifteenth district, and be entitled to one senator

Powhatan, Goochland, Chesterfield, and Manchester shall form the sixteenth district, and be entitled to one senator.

Albemarle, city of Charlottesville, and Greene shall form the seventeeeth district, and be entitled to one senator.

Buckingham, Fluvanna, and Appomattox shall form the eighteenth district, and be entitled to one senator.

Amherst and Nelson shall form the nineteenth district, and be entitled to one senator.

Campbell and Lynchburg shall form the twentieth district, and be entitled to one senator.

Halifax shall form the twenty-first district, and be entitled to one sena

tor.

Bedford shall form the twenty-second district, and be entitled to one senator.

Pittsylvania, Danville, and Henry shall form the twenty-third district, and be entitled to one senator.

Pittsylvania and Danville shall form the twenty-fourth district, and be entitled to one senator.

Charlotte and Mecklenburg shall form the twenty-fifth district, and be entitled to one senator.

Franklin and Floyd shall form the twenty-sixth district, and be entitled to one senator.

Greenesville, Sussex, Surry, and Prince George shall form the twentyseventh district, and be entitled to one senator.

Lunenburg, Nottoway, and Brunswick shall form the twenty-eighth district, and be entitled to one senator.

Petersburg and Dinwiddie shall form the twenty-ninth district, and be entitled to one senator.

Amelia, Cumberland, and Prince Edward shall form the thirtieth district, and be entitled to one senator.

Norfolk city and Princess Anne shall form the thirty-first district, and be entitled to one senator.

Southampton, Isle of Wight, and Nansemond shall form the thirty-second district, and be entitled to one senator.

Portsmouth and Norfolk county shall form the thirty-third district, and be entitled to one senator.

Hanover and Caroline shall form the thirty-fourth district, and be entitled to one senator.

Richmond city and Henrico shall form the thirty-fifth district, and be entitled to two senators.

King George, Richmond, Westmoreland, Northumberland, and Lancaster shall form the thirty-sixth district, and be entitled to one senator. Accomac and Northampton shall form the thirty-seventh district, and be entitled to one senator.

Elizabeth City, Warwick, York, James City, Charles City, New Kent, and King William shall form the thirty-eighth district, and be entitled to one senator.

King and Queen, Middlesex, Gloucester, Essex, and Mathews shall form the thirty-ninth district, and be entitled to one senator.

Sec. 60. Terms of senators; when elected.-The senators shall be As Amended 1891-2, p. 59. elected for the term of four years. Those to be elected in districts bearing odd numbers shall be elected on the Tuesday succeeding the first Monday in November, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and thereafter on the Tuesday succeeding the first Monday in November in every fourth year; and those to be elected in districts bearing even numbers shall be elected on the Tuesday succeeding the first Monday in November, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and thereafter on the Tuesday succeeding the first Monday in November in every fourth year. But the districts bearing even numbers, as they have heretofore been arranged, shall not be considered as affected by this act until said election herein provided for to be held on Tuesday succeeding the first Monday in November, eighteen hundred and ninety-five.

OF

CHAPTER VIII.

THE QUALIFICATION AND PRIVILEGE OF VOTERS; HOW THEY ARE
REGISTERED AND HOW THEY VOTE

Sec. 64. General assembly to elect electoral boards.-The general As Amended 1893-4, p. 782. assembly shall at its session commencing in December, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and at each alternate regular session thereafter, proceed to elect three qualified voters, who shall be residents of the county or city for which they are chosen, to be known as the county or city electoral board, as the case may be, who shall go into office on the first day of April succeeding their election, or as soon thereafter as possible, having first taken and subscribed the usual oaths 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 oaths prescribed by this section may be taken before any person qualified to administer oaths, and when so taken and subscribed shall be filed in the office of the county, corporation, or hustings court, as the case may be.

1893-4, p. 781.

Sec. 67. Appointment of registrars.-It shall be the duty of the As Amended electoral board of each city and county, prior to the first day of May, 93 Va. 491. eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and every alternate year thereafter, to appoint a registrar for each election district of their respective counties and cities, who shall be a discreet citizen and resident of the election district in and for which he is appointed, and who shall hold office for the term of two years from the first day of May following his appointment, and until his successor is duly appointed and qualified. In the city of Richmond it shall be lawful for each registrar to appoint a clerk and to administer to him the same oaths as those taken by the registrar. The said electoral boards shall from time to time fill any vacancy that may occur in the office of registrar.

As Amended

1893-4, p. 730. 93 Va. 491.

Sec. 68. Meetings of board; quorum; record of proceedings.—The electoral board of each city and county shall convene in regular session at 2 Va. L. R. 447. such time in the month of April of each year as the board may prescribe,

As Amended 1897-8, p. 946.

As Amended 1889-90, p. 189.

and at any other time upon the call of any member of the board, but at any special meeting the board shall have the same powers as at a regular meeting. At any session two members shall constitute a quorum. The secretary of each electoral board shall keep, in a book to be provided for that purpose, an accurate account of all the proceedings of the board, including all appointments and removal of judges and registrars.

Sec. 69. [93 Va. 491.]

Sec. 71. [93 Va. 491; 2 Va. L. R. 447.]

Sec. 72. When judge of circuit court to fill vacancies in board.— If all the members of the electoral board for any county or city shall fail to qualify within the time prescribed by this chapter, it shall be the duty of the judge of the county court of such county or corporation court of such city, upon the application, in writing, of five qualified voters of such county or city, to appoint members of the said board required by law. And if any member of said board fail to qualify, or if vacancies occur on said board by death or otherwise, and the remaining members of said board fail to fill said vacancies as required by law, then the county or corporation court, or judge of such court, as the case may be, shall, upon petition of five qualified voters of said county or city, and upon five days' notice to the other members of said board, fill any vacancy existing on said board from any cause. Any of these duties may be discharged either in term or vacation. But the duties imposed upon the court or judge under this section shall be performed in the city of Richmond by the circuit court of said city or by the judge thereof.

Sec. 80. Voter changing his residence may change his registration. Whenever a registered voter changes his place of residence from one election 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 election district, at any time up to and including the regular days of registration, to furnish a certificate that he was duly registered and that his name has, since his removal, been erased from the registration books of said election district, which shall be sufficient evidence to entitle him to be registered, and the name of every such person shall be entered at any time up to and including the regular days of registration by the registrar on the registration books of the election precinct to which the voter has removed; and whenever a registered voter changes his place of residence from one county or city to another county or city it shall be lawful for him to apply to the registrar of his former election district, at any time up to and including the regular days of registration, in person or in writing, to furnish a certificate that he was duly registered, and that his name since his change of residence and removal has been erased from the registration books of said election district, which certificate shall be delivered to the registrar of the election district in which he resides and offers to be registered in the county or city to which he has removed, and will entitle him to be registered in said district on his showing, to the satisfaction of said registrar, that he has resided, or will have resided prior to the next election in the county or city to which he has removed, for three months preceding said election; and the name of every such person shall be entered at any time up to and including the regular days of registration by the registrar on the election books of the election district in

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