The Great Falls leader. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1888-1900, 1889-09-04
Do Not Fail to Register !
Every Voters Name Must Appear on
the Registry List.
Where and Before Whom you Must
Appear to Register.
Remember-N0ne but Registered Vot-
ers Will be Allowed to Vote.

Thursday, the fifteenth of August, was
the first day for the registration OF voters
ut the coming general election, to he held
on Tuesday, October 1st, 1899.
NECESSITY FOR REGISTRATION.
1t must he borne in mind by every vot-
er that no voter will be allowed 10 deposit
his ballot whose name does l.,.t 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 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
calanlities that the free-trade and low
wage party would precipitate upon us,
will 60 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, excep: in cities of 5000 population
Or over, where two maybe 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 begin-that is, the
registration books shall be opened and
the agent at his post-on August Is,
and continue till September 10th. After
this year the time will befrom September
18th to October 18th.
THE METHOD OF REGISTRATION.
Applicants for registration must quail
| fy by oath, If they have not done so Mt
some previous registration and the agents
| are empowered to administer oaths and
affirmation. Qualifications which entitle
II man to register are as follows: He
must he 81 years Of age, a bona fide 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 un-
der oath. Change Of residence in pre-
cinct, district or county necessitates a
new registration. Naturalized citizens
applying for registration must produce
| CeEIluCuIc VI DECENTRALIZATION UT HuU6CElDG
to an oath that they 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 WIZ
shall vote in the name of any other reg
istered elector, shall he deemed guilty ol
a felony, and upon conviction punished
by imprisonment not less than one no.
more than three years. Frauds in reg
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 shall
be deemed perjury and punished as such
Registry agents wilfully failing to per
form their duties or corr'lptly permitting
person to register not so entitled, shall b
punished for each and every ofense upol
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 o.
subscribing to the proper oath.