The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1878-03-03
LAWS OF EEEE
STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY. I

AN ACT to provide for and authorize a
new general and complete registration of
the legal voters of Kinds county. in this
State and for other purposes.
WHEREAS, Itappears that a very large num-
Der of the taxpayers and voters of the coun-
ty OF Kinds are DESTROYS that the question of
subscription by said county to the capital
stock of the Natchez, Jackson and Column bus
railroad Company should be submitted to the
voters OF said county at early day; and
WHEREAS, 1t is represented that the present
registration books of said county are exceed
ingly inaccurate and imperfect containing
the names of hundreds of dec ased persons
hundreds of persons who have removed from
the county, hundreds of persons who are reg
lstered In election districts in which thew do
not now reside and in which they cannot vote.
and many wh1 are not now legal voters under
the laws of Mississippi; so that it is impossi-
bic IN the present condition of said books to
ascertain with any degree Of accuracy what
IS the will of the people of said county as to
the question of subscription or no subscription
to he capital stock of said railroad company;
and,
WHEREAS, 1t is desired by said tax. PAYERS
and voters that there should be new and
complete registration of the qualified voters
of said county and also an early election to
determine whether or not the county of Kinds
by the president of it's board of supervisors
shall subscribe to the capital stock of said
railroad company in such sum and on such
COnulIlOnS as the SAID company and the reOuI-
site number of taxpayers Of said county may
ask; and,
WHEREAS, Owing to the aforesaid condition
of said registration books it is public desid-
eratum and necessity in said county that
ther2 should be new general and complete
registration of all the qualified voters of said
county for use In future elections; therefore.
SECTION |. Be it enacted by the Legislature of
the State of Mississippi, That there shall be a
new, general and complete registration of all
n6o tho(
laws OF this State, to vote at any election in said
Kinds county, and said registration shall be
held at each of the voting places or precincts
of said county Of Kinds on the first Monday
and tuesday of the month of August A D.
1878, between the hours of seven o'clock A. M.
and six o'clock P. NJ. And the public printer
shall on or before the first day of july, A. D
1878, transmit and deliver to the clerk of the
chancery court of said county a number of
blank books of the kind and character mem
toned and described In section four (4 of an
act entitled, an act to provide for the registra-
ton OF voters, amending and repeating the
laws relating thereto, and for other purposes,
approved April Z, A. ID. 1876 sufficient to sup
ply each voting place precinct in said coun-
~ with one blank book. and shall be compen-
stated therefor as provided in said act and if
such public printer should fail to furnish such
blank books or a sufficient number, as afore-
sald; the board Of supervisors Of said county
shall forthwith furnish the same and the
county board of registration Of said county
shall prepare and assign said blank books as
provided in section five (5) of said act.
SEC z: Be it further enacted, That the said
county board Of registration shall give at
least thirty days notice of the time and places
OF such registration by publishing the same
In some public newspaper published in said
county, and by posting notices in at least one
of the most public places in each election dis
trict in said county
SEC 3. Be it further enacted, That the said
county board Of registrati n, shall, for the
purpose of making the general registration
herein provided for, at sometime not less than
ten days before said first Monday in August,
appoint for each voting place or box in said
county three 80 persons of like qualifications
with themselves, who shall constitute a hoard
of reglst! alton for such voting place or box.
except Tor the box or voting place at whic
for the purpose of holding elections. And the
president OF said county board of registration
snail administer to the persons so appointed.
the oath OF office prescribed by the Constitu
ZION OF this State for other officers, and the
sald several boards of registration shall be
composed OF persons not all of the same polit-
ical party.
SEC A. Be 1T further enacted, That each of
sald boards OF registration, SHALL on said first
Monday and Tuesday of August 1873. and
within and during said prescribed bonrs If
salu Gays, sit at the voting place or box to
which such board has been appointed az afore-
SAID, and make faithful and complete repis
't'A'loA III VIC manner hereinafter prescribed
or all the qualified voters entitled to register
at such voting place, who may appear before
them for that purpose, examining and admin
lsterlng to each voter the oath, dulv sinh.
scrlbed by the afiant or by his mark when he
is unable to write, and attestpd by one of said
board, and shall require each voter to state
under oath In what election district of the
county he resides at the time of registering
and IN what portion of such district, and if |
resident OF any incorporated city or town in
what ward of said city or town, and his occu-
patton and where prosecuted and if in the |
employ OF any one, whom, where. and the ma |
ture OF such employment That the answer of |
the voter shall be entered by such board nm |
der the appropriate heads as we'll as the nm
per and name of the voter the date thereof |
and whether white or colored As soon as the |
registration at such voting place or box shall
nave been completed, the board of reeistra |
ton tor such voting place or box shall attach
the following certificate to the Registration |
book therfer: We, the board of registration |
forv(here insert the name by which the voting |
place or box, Or ward, as the case NAV he. ;s I
usually designated)--do hereby certify that
the foregoing Stating the number) pages con-
tain the names of Stating the number} voters
numbered from one to (stating numberl con-
seeutlvely and inclusively, registered at(here
insert the name by which the voting place or