New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-10-19
REGISTER TODAY!
INFORMATION FOR ALL VOTERS.
HOW ONE SHOULD INSURE HIS RIGHT TO VOTE.

HOW ONE SHOULD INSURE HIS RIGHT TO VOTE.
| The second day for the registration of voters
in this city and in Brooklyn this year is to-day.
Let every Republican who cares for the success
! OF his party in the coming election bear the
| fact in mind from morning until night If he
has not registered he should perform that duty
without fail to-day. If he has made of his
right TO cast vote this year, let him remind his
fellow-Repnblicans of their duty and OF the danger
OF delay. There two other days of registra-
tion in the two large cities, Friday and Satnr-
day Of next week, but if the present opportunity
Is neglected sickness business call may pre-
vent registration later. Remember that registra-
tlon Is necessary preliminary step TO voting.
IL makes no difference how eligible the voter may
be In other respects, how many years he has
voted, because he will not he permitted to cast
a vote this year unless lie is registered this year.
Each place of registry will be open from a. IN.
! until p. m. to-day, and at each place three
inspectors Of election will be in attendance II
is the duty of the inspectors to give proper direc
tions To voters who go to the wrong polling
places by mistake but voters can easily avoid
such mistakes by examining the election notice
published In The Tribune to-day before they 60
to register. it will be seen that the arrangement
of the advertisement enables a voter to find the
portion contaips the boundaries of all the election
districts in the city, arranged by Assembly Dis
tricts In numerical order The boundary lines
run through the middle Of each street and avenue
named.
voter living on the east side OF lexington
ave. between Seventcth and Sevcnty-frst SITS,
Will find that he is in the seventeenth election
district of the XNth Assembly District the
boundaries OF which are given in the advertise
ment as follows:
The seventeenth election district shall con
tain all that part Of the city bounded by and
lying within East Seventy -second-st., Thrd-aye.,
Last SNty-ninth-st and LcNingtOn-ave
BY referring to the second part of the election
notice, ne will see that he is to register and vote
at the barber shop, No. l.23s Thrd-avc. His
opposite neighhOr, living on the west side Vi
Iexins ston-ave, is in the twcnty-dfih election
district Of the AXIst Assembly District. bounded
10y East Seventy y-second,st, LeXingtOn-ave., East
SNty-ninth-st and FiftL-ave., and the place for
registering and voting in that district is polling
booth at Seventy-irst-st. and Tark-ave
There ls no registration or voting by proxy.
The qualifications Of citizen who may register
and vote are stated in the Police Boards Man
uhl follows
To entitle person to vote he must appear
in person, he ~ twenty-one years of age on
or before Election Day; t2j a citizen, native or
naturalized, his naturalization must have occurred
at least ten days before the election t3 an in
habitant Of the State one year before election :.
a resident OF the county for the last four
months 81 a resident OF the election district for
thirty DAYS before election; 81 he must not have
CONVICTED he must have been pardoned and re
st0red TO the rights Of citizen; t7l he must
not have made or ne Interested in any bet de
pending upon the result Of the election. .
ARTS J. and 3, Const. n. Y. and sec. 1855 chap.
4l0 Laws of 1882
Fr 'nG b 5sr yTns or lost sssns
reason of his presence or absence while employed
in the United States service: engaged in the
navigation Of the waters of this State hi Or the
student of any seminary of learning nor while
kept ct any almshouse or anaa Other as asylum
pnbic U1i prison An -: 2: sec % B. Const s n "
The following In the manual applies only TO
voters who make CHANGES of residence within
| the same election district:
voter who has changed his residence after
! he has registered in aiY election district may
apply TO the Board Of Inspectors for rc-entrv Of
! his name under his new residence and hav" his
! former registry erased 50 that he may be enabled
TO the election lScc. 1.s7j. chap 4l0' Laws
! of 1882
4 change Of residence from one election district
TO another after the first day Of reGistration or
| at any time within thirty days before the el"c-
election II costs nothing 10 register and takes
ONLY a few minutes Of time. When a citizen
appears an polling place 20 register he Is hrst
required to swear ior affirm that he will truth
fully answer questions regarding his qualifications
as voter Then he tells his place Of residence,
his Eame. his age df he is young man hl5
Dlacc Of birth thc length Of time he has lived
in his election district. in the Assembly District,
in the city and county, and in the State OF New
York. and his former place OF residence before
he moved into the Assembly District. II he is
na,urali7rd citizen he must tell when a'A whore
and in what court hc vas naturalzcd, and how
long he has lived in the United states. lle =
req lrcd also TO reply n the question: Have
Won made or are Won. directly or indirectly. IN
terested in AIRY let or wacer depending on the
result of the next election? lSec. 1853, chap.
40 Laws Of iSs.J
4 policeman will b. at each polling place dur
inc the hours OF registry 20 m9intaln order il
is n msdcmcaror for any person - haye any
distilled or spirituous linnors in any place oi
registration or election. also at such tim" ana
place TO drink or partal;c Of any such liquor