The Council shall, on the first Monday in May, one thousand nine hundred twenty-one, and every two years thereafter, appoint such registration officers as it deems necessary to register all the legal voters within the corporate limits of said City, and shall furnish to the election officers hereinbefore provided for a list of all the voters entitled and qualified to vote at said City election, and said election officers shall not permit any person to vote at said election unless his name appears upon the registration book, or list of qualified voters made by such registrars.
The Council may, at a meeting to be held for that purpose prior to the date of said election, register any legal voter or voters whose names have been omitted by said registrars, and said Council shall give at least five days' notice of said meeting, by publication in some newspaper of general circulation in said City, which notice shall state the time and place of said meetings, and its intention to correct the registration of voters of said City, and the said registrars so appointed by the Council in correcting said registration at meeting.
Provided, that if the county court of the County of Kanawha shall adopt the voting precincts which shall be fixed by the Council of said City, as herein provided for, as voting places for State and County officers before another City election is held, then the registration of voters shall be the registration of voters for all City general elections, with such additions as hereinbefore provided for; provided, further, that it shall not be necessary to have a special registration of voters for any special election, but the preceding registration of voters for the regular Municipal election, with such additions as are hereinbefore provided for, shall be the proper registration for such special election.
In case the registrations made under the general law are used as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the City Clerk to make or have made copies of the registration books on file in the office of the clerk of the county court of Kanawha County at least sixty days (60) before any regular City election, and such copies, with such additions and changes as may be made by the City registrars, shall be used for all special elections that may be held between said regular elections as well as for the regular elections. And the county clerk of Kanawha County shall carefully preserve in his office the registration books of each general election for all the precincts of the City of Dunbar, and shall permit copies to be made of such registration books by any proper officer of the City of Dunbar.