The Great Falls leader. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1888-1900, 1889-09-03
Do Not Fail to Register!
Every Voters Name Must Appear on
the Registry List.
Where and Before Whom YOU Must
Appear to Register.
Remember-Nonc but Registered VOt-
ers Will be Allowed to Vote.

Thursday, the fifteenth instant, was
the first day for the registration of voters
at the coming general election, to be held
on Tuesday, October 1st, 1889.
NECESSITY FOR REGISTRATION.
1tmust be borne in mind by every vot-
er that no voter viii be allowed to deposit
his ballot whose name does not appear
upon the registry list. The registering
of their names. as required by the new
election law, being something novel here,
it may by some Ac slightly considered
and by others overlooked altogether; but
every active, vigilant republican who has
the welfare of Montana NJ heart and who
has an eye to his own personal security
from the misrule Of democracy and the
calamities that the free-trade and low
wage party would precipitate upon us,
will 50 and register, that he may cast his
manhood and his influence in favor of
protection, home labor and home in
tcrests.
Each county has been divided into reg
lstration districts by the county commits
sioners and each district numbered.
These districts have each one registry
agent, except in cities of 5000 population
or over, where two may be appointed.
The first agent under the new law have
in accordance with that law been appoint
ed to serve until June 4, 1890. After that
date they are to he appointed biennially
each regular general election year, no
candidate for, or incumbent of any Office
being eligible to the position. For the
elections of this year the law provides
that registration shall bcgin-that is, the
registration books shall be opened and
the agent at his post-on August Is,
yesterday and continue till September
%h;u tho 1.,S11 In
from September 10th to October 18th.
THE METHOD OF REGISTRATION.
Applicants for registration must quail
fly by oath, il they have not done so at
some previous registration and the agents
are empowered to administer oaths and
affirmation. Qualifications which entitle
II man to register are rs follows: He
must he 81 years Of age, a bona tide resi-
months next preceding the day of cleo
tion, citizen of the county thirty days
, and Il resident of the United States.
Agents shall question the applicant UNI
der oath. Change of residence in pre-
cinct, district or county necessitates 4
new registration. Naturalized citizens
applying for registration must produce
certificate of naturalization or subscribe
to IN oath that they are citizens or have
J, legally declared their intention OF be-
coming citizens.
Any person, not Il qualified elector, vot,
ing or Offering to vote, or any person who
: shall vote in the name of any other reg
istered elector, shall be deemed guilty Of
l q felony, and upon conviction punished
by imprisonment not less than one mol
, more than three years. Frauds in reg
l istering or attempting to register, and the
aiding or abetting Of such frauds consti
tute misdemeanors and are subject tt
both fine and imprisonment. False
swearing before any registry agent shal
be deemed perjury and punished as such
Registry agents wilfully failing to per
I form their duties or corrlptly permitting
person to register not so entitled, shall b
punished for each and every otfense upo,
conviction by fine and Imprisonment
!. When, through failure of the agent opel
books, a voter finds no place in his owl
district, he may register elsewhere OF
subscribing to the proper oath.