The Great Falls leader. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1888-1900, 1889-09-05
Do Not Fail to Register!
Every Voters Name Must Appear on
the Registry List.
Where and Before Whom you Must
Appear to Register.
Remember-None but Registered Vut
ers Will he Allowed to Vote.

Thursday, the fifteenth of August, 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 in mind by every vot-
er that no voter will be allowed to deposit
his ballot whose name does not appear
upon the registry list. The registering
election law, being something novel here,
it may by some he slightly considered
and by others overlooked altogether; but
every active, vigilant republican who has
the welfare Of Montana at 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
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 be opened and
the agent ut his post-on August Is,
and continue till September 18th. After
this year the time will befrOm September
10th to October 18th.
THE METHOD OF REGISTRATION.
Applicants for registration must quail
fy by oath, if they have not done so ut
some previous registration and the agents
arc empowered to administer oaths~ and
affirmation. Qualifications which entitle
II man to reg lister are as follows: He
must be p years OF age, bona tide resi-
dent of Montana for not less Than six
months next preceding the day of cleo
! tion, citizen of the county thirty days
and resident of the United States.
!, Agents shall question the applicant I'M
der oath. Change of residence in pre-
cinct, district or county necessitates a
new registration. Natnralized citizens
lapplYin& for regit ration maast fredsee
certificate Of naturalization or subscribe
| to an oath that tl''y are citizens or have
legally declared their intention of be-
coming citizens.
Any person, not qualified elector, vot
ing or offering to vote, or any person WI a
r shall vote in the name of any other reg.
istered elector, shall he deemed guilty ol
felony, and upon conviction punished
; by imprisonment not less than one no:
more than three years. Frauds in reg
8 istering or attempting to register, and the
q aiding or abetting Of such frauds consti
tute misdemeanors and are subject t
both fine and Imprisonment. Falst
e swearing before any registry agent shal
be deemed perjury and punished as such
Registry agents wilfully failing to per
+ form their duties or corrlptly permitting
person to register not so entitled, shall b
punished for each and every offense upoi
conviction by fine and imprisonment
When, through failure Of the agent opel
d books, a voter finds no place in his owl
c district, he may register elsewhere o,
u subscribing to the proper oath.