Montgomery and Radford shall have one delegate. Nelson shall have one delegate. Newport News shall have one delegate. New Kent, Charles City, James City, York and city of Williamsburg shall have one delegate. Norfolk city shall have four delegates. Norfolk county shall have two delegates. Princess Anne shall have one delegate. Northampton and Accomac shall have one delegate. Patrick shall have one delegate. Pittsylvania and Danville shall have three delegates. Petersburg shall have one delegate. Roanoke city shall have two delegates. Roanoke county shall have one delegate. Rockbridge and Buena Vista shall have one delegate. Rockbridge, Buena Vista, Bath and Highland shall have one delegate. Rockingham and Harrisonburg shall have two delegates. Page and Warren shall have one delegate. Russell shall have one delegate. Russell and Buchanan shall have one delegate. Scott shall have one delegate. Shenandoah shall have one delegate. Smyth shall have one delegate. Southampton shall have one delegate. Spotsylvania and Fredericksburg shall have one delegate. Surry, Prince George and Hopewell shall have one delegate. Tazewell shall have one delegate. Washington and Bristol shall have two delegates. Warwick and Newport News shall have one delegate. Wise shall have one delegate. Wise and Dickenson shall have one delegate. Wythe shall have one delegate. (1922, p. 223. In force June 18, 1922.) Sec. 79. Senatorial districts. The State shall be divided into thirty-six districts entitled to senators as follows: First. Accomac, Northampton and Princess Anne shall be entitled to one senator. Second. Norfolk city shall be entitled to two senators. Third. Norfolk county and Portsmouth shall be entitled to one senator. Fourth. Amherst and Nelson shall be entitled to one senator. Fifth. Nansemond, Suffolk, Southampton and Isle of Wight shall be entitled to one senator. Sixth. Sussex, Surry, Prince George, Greensville, and the city of Hopewell shall be entitled to one senator. Seventh. Mecklenburg and Brunswick shall be entitled to one senator. Eighth. Dinwiddie and Petersburg shall be entitled to one senator. Ninth. Amelia, Nottoway, Lunenburg, Prince Edward and Powhatan shall be entitled to one senator. Tenth. Halifax shall be entitled to one senator. Eleventh. Appomattox, Buckingham, Cumberland and Charlotte shall be entitled to one senator. Twelfth. Campbell and Lynchburg shall be entitled to one senator. Thirteenth. Pittsylvania, Danville, Henry and Patrick shall be entitled to two senators. Fourteenth. Carroll and Grayson shall be entitled to one senator. Fifteenth. Washington, Bristol and Smyth shall be entitled to one senator. Sixteenth. Scott and Lee shall be entitled to one senator. Seventeenth. Wise and Dickenson shall be entiled to one senator. Eighteenth. Buchanan, Tazewell and Russell shall be entitled to one senator. Nineteenth. Wythe, Bland, Giles and Pulaski shall be entitled to one senator. Twentieth. Bath, Craig, Botetourt, Alleghany and the city of Clifton Forge shall be entitled to one senator. Twenty-first. Roanoke city and Roanoke county shall be entitled to one senator. Twenty-second. Roanoke city, Roanoke county, Franklin, Floyd, Montgomery and Radford shall be entitled to one senator. Twenty-third. Rockbridge, Buena Vista and Bedford shall be entitled to one senator. Twenty-fourth. Augusta, Highland, and the city of Staunton shall be entitled to one senator. Twenty-fifth. Rockingham, Harrisonburg, Page and Warren shall be entitled to one senator. Twenty-sixth. Frederick, Winchester, Shenandoah, and Clarke shall be entitled to one senator. Twenty-seventh. Albemarle, Charlottesville, Greene, and Fluvanna shall be entitled to one senator. Twenty-eighth. Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania, Louisa, Orange and Stafford shall be entitled to one senator. Twenty-ninth. Fauquier, Loudoun, Culpeper and Rappahannock shall be entitled to one senator. Thirtieth. Fairfax, Arlington, Alexandria and Prince William shall be entitled to one senator. Thirty-first. King George, Westmoreland, Northumberland, Lancaster and Richmond county shall be entitled to one senator. Thirty-second. Caroline, King William, Hanover and Goochland shall be entitled to one senator. Thirty-third. King and Queen, Middlesex, Gloucester, Mathews, York and Essex shall be entitled to one senator. Thirty-fourth. Newport News, Elizabeth City and Warwick shall be entitled to one senator. Thirty-fifth. Henrico, Chesterfield, New Kent, Charles City, James City and the city of Williamsburg shall be entitled to one senator. Thirty-sixth. Richmond city shall be entitled to three senators. (1922, p. 463. In force June 18, 1922.) Sec. 84. For decision of lower court in re petition for mandamus to compel the appointment of white judges of election, see 7 Va. Law Reg. (N. S.) 615. Sec. 86. As to registration of voters in cities having a population of 50,000 or more, see chapter 111 of Acts 1922 in Part V herein. Sec. 122. How vacancies in certain offices filled. When a vacancy occurs during the session of the general assembly in the office of attorney-general, secretary of the Commonwealth, or State treasurer, it shall be filled by election by the joint vote of the two houses. If such vacancy occur during a recess of the general assembly, governor shall fill, pro tempore, the vacancy by commission to expire the with the expiration of such unexpired term or at the end of thirty days after the commencement of the next session of the general assembly, whichever shall happen first. At such next session, the general assembly shall fill any such vacancy by election by the joint vote of the two houses for the unexpired portion of the term. (1920,. p. 11. In force February 10, 1920.) This enactment is in accordance with the suggestion of the revisors' note in Va. Code 1919 to this section. This section became a law without the Governor's signature. Sec. 136. By whom and when issued; how vacancies temporarily filled. When a vacancy occurs in any county, city, town or district office, and no other provision is made for filling the same, it shall be filled by the circuit court of the county or corporation court of the city in which it occurs, or the judge thereof in vacation; provided, however, that if such vacancy occurs in any office of a city or town as to filling which vacancy there is no provision in the charter or ordinances of such city or town, and which has no corporation court, the same shall be filled by the circuit court of the county in which said city or town is situated, or by the judge thereof in vacation; when in the office of clerk of a county, by such court, or the judge thereof in vacation; when in the office of clerk of the chancery court of the city of Richmond, by the said court, or the judge thereof in vacation; when in the office of sheriff of said city, by the circuit court thereof; and when in the office of corporation court clerk, or attorney for the Commonwealth for a city, by the corporation court of such city, or the judge thereof in vacation. The term of office of any person appointed under this section shall commence as soon as he shall qualify and continue for the unexpired term of such office. Upon the death of a clerk of court, the deputy clerk thereof shall perform all the duties of clerk until a clerk shall be appointed and shall qualify according to law. (1920, p. 410. In force June 18, 1920.) Sec. 144. EDITOR'S FORM FOR ALTERING THE BOUNDARIES OF AN ELECTION DISTRICT. THE PETITION To the Honorable Judge of the Circuit Court of.. Virginia: magisterial district, in County, Your petitioners respectfully represent that they are qualified voters of election district, located in.. ..County; that in accordance with the statute in such cases made and provided, to-wit: Section 144 of Virginia Code, 1919, they respectfully petition this honorable court that the boundaries of... election districts be so changed as to transfer from.. ..district all that section of and certain territory district to the County known and designated as. adjacent thereto, which section and adjacent territory is described as follows: (Here insert boundaries.) That due notice of this petition has been posted as required by law will appear from the affidavit of hereto attached as a part of this petition. Your petitioners respectfully submit the following reasons for the granting of this petition, to-wit: And your petitioners will ever pray. (Here insert reasons.) (To be signed by at least twenty.) Here should follow an affidavit to the effect that each petitioner is a qualified voter of the magisterial district. Election District In the Matter of Change of Boundaries of This day came.. of... Virginia. being twenty (or more) qualified voters magisterial district in this county and by leave of court filed election district be so their petition, asking that the boundary lines of changed as to transfer from.. district to the district, all County known as... that section of.. and certain adjacent territory, which section and territory may be described as follows: .(Here must be inserted "well defined boundaries.") On Consideration Whereof, It appearing to the Court that notice of the filing of this petition has been posted for thirty (30) days at the front door of the Court House of this County and at.......... being each and every voting place in each election district to be affected by the granting of said petition; and it further appearing that no general election is to be held within thirty (30) days, the Court in the exercise of the discretion vested in it by Section 144 Virginia Code, 1919, doth grant said petition, and doth change the boundary lines of said election district according to the metes and bounds above set out. It is further ordered that the Sheriff of this county post a copy of this order. without delay, at the Court House of this county and at each of the said voting places. If the petition be for any of the other purposes named in the above section, the form may be changed accordingly. Sec. 148. Formerly Sec. 117, Code 1904. Mandamus refused to require electoral board to appoint judges and clerks of elections in May each year as required by this section, there appearing no vacancies and no inhibition on reappointments. Dickenson v. Armstrong, 126 Va. 178, 100 S. E. 813. Sec. 155. How and when ballots printed. It shall be the duty of the electoral boards of the several counties and cities of this State, within thirty days preceding each election, to cause to be printed a number of ballots equal to the entire registered vote of the said county or city. In magisterial districts of a county or wards of a city, only the names of the candidates to be voted for in said district or ward shall be placed on the said ballots. These ballots shall be white paper tickets without any distinguishing mark or symbol, shall contain the names of all the candidates complying with the provisions of the law, printed in black ink, immediately below the office for which they have so announced their candidacy, in due and orderly succession, and the names on said ballot shall be in clear print, in the same order and each name in a separate line, and the type used in printing said ballots shall be plain Roman type, not smaller than pica. (1920, p. 309. In force June 18, 1920.) Sec. 158. Duties of electoral boards, seal, et cetera. It shall be the duty of the electoral board to procure and adopt a seal, if there be not one already adopted by the electoral board of such city or county, which seal may be changed from time to time in the discretion of said board, and shall not be less than two inches in diameter. Said board shall meet as soon as convenient after the printing of the ballots as provided for in this chapter, of which meeting the chairman of the board of supervisors of the county or the commissioner of accounts of the corporation or circuit court of the city, shall be notified, and at which there shall be present the said chairman or commissioner and the members of the said board, but no other person; and in the event of the inability, through sickness or other incapacity, of the said chairman or either of said commissioners to discharge any of the duties imposed by this section, it shall be lawful for the said duties to be performed by some other member of the |