voters. Each board may determine whether it will sit consecutively for the period hereafter stated, or whether it will sit from time to time for such number of days within said period as it may determine. At the registration to be held prior to the fifteenth day of October, nineteen hundred and two, the aggregate number of days in which any board shall sit within any one district or ward shall not exceed fifteen days; and at the registration to be had in the year nineteen hundred and three, the aggregate number of days in which any board shall sit within any one district or ward shall not exceed ten days. The judge of the county court of a county, or of a corporation court of a city, may, on the motion of the board, extend the time for either of such registrations for a further period or time to be determined by such judge, and shall fix the days for such registration.

The board shall give at least twenty days' notice of the time and place or places at which it will open books for registration at any precinct, by bills posted at five or more public places in the precinct, and also by weekly advertisement for two successive weeks in a newspaper, if one be published in the county or city, and in such other manner as it may deem expedient, and where the books are opened for more than one precinct, or for the whole district or ward, then like notice of the time and place shall be posted in five or more public places within each precinct, for which such registration is held, and advertised by publication as aforesaid.

Sec. 3. The board shall register all persons who apply for registration, entitled to register under this Constitution, prior to January the first, nineteen hundred and four, and none others; and it shall have power to administer oaths to, and examine under oath, any applicants and witnesses, and to receive evidence and hear testimony touching qualifications for registration.

The act of a majority of its members shall be the act of the board; and a majority of the members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of all business.

Sec. 4. The board shall record in suitable books, hereinafter provided for, in alphabetical order, the names of all persons registered, the date of birth and registration, their occupation and residence. Separate books, in duplicate, for white and colored voters shall be kept for each precinct; one of each of which shall, after the completion of each registration, be forwarded by the chairman of the board to the clerk of the county court of the county, or of the corporation court of the city, to be copied in a proper book and preserved in his office.

Until January the first. nineteen hundred and four, the board shall have the custody and keeping of the other duplicate of said registration

books; but, a reasonable time before the elections to be held in nineteen hundred and two and nineteen hundred and three, the books for each. precinct shall be delivered to the judges appointed at such precinct to conduct said elections, and they, a reasonable time after said elections, shall return the books to said board.

After the first day of January, nineteen hundred and four, the board shall deliver the registration books to the proper registration officers designated by law.

At the completion of every registration conducted by it, each member of the board shall sign, and certify the accuracy of the same on oath, upon the registration books.

Sec. 5. Until the first day of January, nineteen hundred and four, if any person so registered shall move to another precinct, he shall be entitled to register therein on the permanent roll, upon a transfer issued by the secretary of the board, before which he last registered; and a note of such transfer shall be made by the said secretary upon the permanent roll in his possession.

Sec. 6. Any person who, upon his examination, shall wilfully make a false statement of any material fact affecting his qualifications as a voter, shall be guilty of perjury, and, upon conviction thereof, shall forfeit for life his right to vote.

Sec. 7. Any person denied registration shall have the right to appeal, without payment of writ tax or giving security for costs, to the circuit court of the county or to the corporation court of the city, in which he offers to register, or to the judge thereof in vacation, by presenting to such court or judge, within ten days thereafter, a petition in writing to have his right to register determined, containing a statement of the facts proved before said board; to which the board shall make answer in writing. The matter shall be heard and determined upon such petition and answer, and such evidence as may be introduced in support thereof. Such proceedings shall take precedence over all other business of the said court or judge, and shall be heard as soon as possible.

Upon the filing of such petition, the clerk of the court shall at once. give notice to the Commonwealth's attorney for his county or city, whose duty it shall be to appear and defend against said petition in behalf of the State.

Judgment in favor of the petitioner shall entitle him to registration. From judgment rendered against him, a writ of error shall lie to the Supreme Court of Appeals in favor the petitioner.

Sec. 8. The Secretary of the Commonwealth shall have prepared suitable books for the registration of voters and forward them to the clerk of the county court of each county, and to the clerk of the corporation

court of each city, to be by them distributed to the several boards of registrars of their respective counties and cities.

The books shall be so spaced and ruled as to provide for the convenient entry of the number and name of the voter, in alphabetical order, his age, occupation, residence, length of time he has resided in the State and county and precinct, and, if a naturalized citizen, the date of his naturalization papers and the court by which issued, if known; and, if registered as a voter exempt from the payment of a poll tax as a prerequisite to the right to vote, under section twenty-two of the Constitution, for the statement of that fact.

It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, before the twentieth day of July, nineteen hundred and two, to forward to each of the persons chosen by the Convention as members of the several boards of registration, a certificate showing that such person has been so chosen, which certificate shall be evidence of the facts therein stated.

Upon the receipt of such certificate, the member of the registration board named therein shall signify his acceptance in writing to the clerk of his county, or the clerk of the hustings or corporation court of his city, upon blanks to be furnished by the Secretary of the Commonwealth.

The Secretary of the Commonwealth shall, with said certificate, send to each member of said board a copy of the Constitution and of this registration ordinance.

Sec. 9. On or before the first day of September, nineteen hundred and two, the treasurer of each county and city shall furnish to the board of registrars of each district or ward of his county or city, a certified list containing the names of all persons within such district or ward who, for the year nineteen hundred and one, have paid as much as one dollar in state tax for property owned by and assessed against them; and, on or before the first day of September, nineteen hundred and three, the said treasurers shall furnish to said boards a similar list of those who, for the year nineteen hundred and two, have paid as much as one dollar in state tax for property owned by and assessed against them.

Sec. 10. The books and blank forms to be prepared by the Secretary of the Commonwealth shall be provided at the expense of the State; but all other costs and charges of registration, including postage, stationery, and publication of notices, shall be defrayed by the counties and cities in which such registration is held.

Sec. 11. To conduct the registration provided for in this ordinance, the persons whose names appear below shall be, and they are hereby appointed, members of the board of registrars for the several magisterial districts and wards of the several counties and cities, as follows:

ACCOMAC COUNTY.

Pungoteague Magisterial District,-William T. Mason, H. E. Wescott, William M. Turlington.

Lee Magisterial District,-Thomas C. Kellam, Robert P. Coleburn, Wilbur J. Milliner.

Metompkin Magisterial District,-Joseph R. Riggs, J. Harry Rew, Albert J. Rew.

Atlantic Magisterial District,-S. J. Revell, A. Clinton Matthews, James E.

Anderton.

Islands Magisterial District,-John A. M. Wheelton, William J. Matthews, A. Frank Matthews.

ALBEMARLE COUNTY.

Scottsville Magisterial District,-James S. Harris, James Starke, T. E. Wilhoit.

Samuel Miller Magisterial District,-A. S. Watson, F. H. Via, C. E. Gay. Whitehall Magisterial District,-Charles L. Wayland, Thomas White, William Z. Catterton.

Ivy Magisterial District,-S. A. Calhoun, Peter W. Garland, Henry G. White. Charlottesville Magisterial District,-Bartlett Bolling, John H. Barksdale, M. R. Taylor.

Rivanna Magisterial District,-H. E. Magruder, William H. Bowcock, W. A.

Marshall.

ALEXANDRIA COUNTY.

Washington Magisterial District,-William N. Febrey, George Ott Wunder, R. C. L. Moncure.

Arlington Magisterial District,-Curtis B. Graham, William Ball, W. W. Douglass.

Jefferson Magisterial District,-John W. Varney, Frank Hume, John W. Slater.

ALLEGHANY COUNTY.

Boiling Spring District,-C. B. Hunter, D. J. Callaghan, J. H. McDevitt.
Covington District,-W. A. Rinehart, H. A. Faulconer, W. E. Allen.
Clifton District,-George W. Warren, H. E. Meeks, Robert Robinson.

AMELIA COUNTY.

Leigh Magisterial District,-John T. Southall, C. C. Farley, George A. Wiley. Giles Magisterial District,-W. E. Griffith, Bradley S. Johnson, N. W. de Krafft. Jackson Magisterial District,-M. J. Oliver, E. N. Hamner, R. W. Blanton.

AMHERST COUNTY.

Amherst Courthouse Magisterial District,-C. B. Christian, B. R. Harrison, G. Frank Powell.

Temperance Magisterial District,-T. C. Payne, W. T. Watson, Ed. Lee Ful cher.

Pedlar Magisterial District,-T. B. Wood, H. R. Crist, M. B. Kyle.

Elon Magisterial District,-I. P. Whitehead, P. C. Cabell, W. E. Powell.

APPOMATTOX COUNTY.

South Side Magisterial District,-R. F. Burke, F. L. Martin, A. H. Howerton. Clover Hill Magisterial District,-W. P. Gills, E. P. Sears, J. W. Clark. Stonewall Magisterial District,-T. J. Stratton, C. H. Coleman, N. R. Featherstone.

AUGUSTA COUNTY.

South River Magisterial District, C. Benton Coiner, John T. Smith, Samuel B. Harper.

North River Magisterial District,-E. G. Crist, M. Bruce Whitmore, C. H. Fulton.

Beverly Manor Magisterial District,-W. P. Gay, W. A. McComb, C. F. Neel. Riverheads Magisterial District,-J. Marshall McClure, S. A. D. McKee, G. Lewis Clemmer.

Middle River Magisterial District,-James T. Kerr, Samuel H. McCue, John S. Richey.

Pastures Magisterial District,-James W. Seig, D. F. Hoover, John W. Mont

gomery.

BATH COUNTY.

Warm Springs Magisterial District,-S. W. Anderson, William M. McAllister, J. W. Harper.

Cedar Creek Magisterial District,-William G. Payne, C. W. Richardson, George H. Chaplin.

Crawford Mill Magisterial District,-Jasper N. Bradshaw, Robert M. McClintic, George W. Wallace.

Millboro Magisterial District,-John S. Dickinson, H. R. Lowman, Stonewall Jackson Armentrout.

BEDFORD COUNTY.

Central Magisterial District,-John M. Early, S. R. Watson, W. R. Abbot, Jr. Lisbon Magisterial District,-F. C. Otey, H. L. Caldwell, Gordon Cofer. Chamblissburg Magisterial District,-J. W. Nimmo, William H. Powers, Joseph P. Wright.

Staunton Magisterial District,-Pinckney Anthony, John W. Hubbard, C. E. Carter.

Otter Magisterial District,-Henan T. Witt, Thomas G. Read, William H. Wright.

Bellevue Magisterial District,-T. T. Patterson, Thomas W. White, J. P.

Cannada.

Forest Magisterial District,—Amandus N. Walker, Jr., A. W. Scott, Wellington

Ogden.

Charlemont Magisterial District,-William P. Burks, J. T. Noell, R. H. Parks.

BLAND COUNTY.

Sharon Magisterial District,-W. B. Allen, Wythe G. Waddle, Luther Scott. Sedden Magisterial District,-R. C. Green, L. F. Grayson, Thomas Dunn. Mechanicsburg Magisterial District,-W. H. G. Harmon, Meek Tickle, John C. Mustard.

Rocky Gap Magisterial District,-Frazier Stowers, John E. Shrader, George Stowers.