The Great Falls leader. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1888-1900, 1889-09-01
Do Not Fail to Register!
Every Voters Name Must Appear on
the Registry List.
Where and Before Whom YOU Must
Appear to Register.
Remelnber-None 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, 1880.
NECESSITY FOR REGIsrRATI0N.
II must be horne ID 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
of their names, rs 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 ut heart and who
has an eye to his own personal security
from the misrulc of democracy and the
calamities 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
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 begin-that is, the
registration books shall be opened and
the agent at his post--on August Is,
yesterday and continue till September
18th. After this year the time will be
from September 18th to October 18th.
THE METHOD or REGISTRATION.
Applicants for registration must quail
fy by oath, II they have not done 80 at
some previous registration and the agents
are empowered to administer oaths and
affirmation. Qualifications which entitle
!" man to register are as follows: He
must be 81 years Of age, bona f1de resi-
dent of Montana for not less than six
months next preceding the day of cleo
tion, a citizen of the county thirty days
and a 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
certificate of naturalization or subscribe
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 who
shall vote in the name Of any other reg
istered elector, shall he deemed guilty Of
a felony, and upon conviction punished
by imprisonment not less than one nor
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 to
!, 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,,ptly permitting
person to register not 40 entitled, shall be
, punished for each and every offense upon
conviction by fine and imprisonment
When, throug gh failure Of the agent open
books, a voter finds no place in his own
district, he may register elsewhere or
subscribing to the proper oath.