The Great Falls leader. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1888-1900, 1889-08-31
Do Not Fail to Register!
Every Voters Name Must Appear on
the Registry List.
Where and Before Whom you Must
Appear to Register.
Rcmcmber-None hut 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, 1880.
NECESSITY FOR REGISTRATION.
1t must be borne III mind by every yot-
er that no voter will bo allowed to deposit
his ballot whose name does not appear
upon the registry list. The registering
of their names, rs required by the new
election law, being something novel here,
it may by some lie slightly considered
and by others overlooked altogether; but
every active, vigilant republican who has
the welfare of Montana ut 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 go and register, that he may cast his
manhood and his influence in favor of
protection, home labor and home in-
terests.
Each county has been divided into reg
istration 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 be 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 begin-that Is, the
registration books shall he opened and
the agent at his post-on August Is,
yesterday and continue till September
10Th. After this year the time will be
from September 10Th to October 18th.
THE METHOD OF REGIsTRATION.
Applicants for registration must quail
fy by oath, if they have not done so at
some previous registration and the agents
are empowered to administer oaths aud
affirmation. Qualifications which entitle
IL man to register are as follows: He
must be 81 years of age, a bona tide resi-
dent of Montana for not less than six
months next preceding the day of cleo
ton, a citizen of the county thirty days
and Il resident of the United States.
j Agents shall question the applicant UNI
der oath. Change of residence in pre-
cinct, district or county necessitates a
new registration. Naturalized citizens
Applying for registration must produce
t certificate of naturalization Or subscribe
< to an oath that they are citizens or have
5 legally declared declared their yntent'on Of be
: Any person, not a qualified elector, vot
ing or offering to vote, or any person who
! shall vote in the name Of any other reg
istered elector. shall he deemed guilty o.
# g felony, and upon conviction punished
by imprisonment not Tess than one MOI
more than three years. Frauds in reg
Is istering or attempting to register, and tn.
aiding or abetting Of such frauds consti
tute misdemeanors aud are subject t
y both fine and Imprisonment. Falls
swearing before any registry agent shal
q be deemed perjury and punished as such
Registry agents wilfully failing to per
- form their duties or corruptly permittinl
= person to register not 80 entitled, shall b
punished for each and every offense upo
,e conviction by fine aud Imprisonment
When, through failure Of the agent ope
books, a voter finds no place in his ow
az district, he may register elsewhere Q
subscribing to the proper oath.