Morning journal and courier., 1893-08-12
TWO LADIES WHO WILL VOTE

At the Coming School Election In
 September-The Right of Suffrage
 Has Already Been Granted to Mrs.
 Sarah B. Newton, Wife of Attorney
 Newton, and Miss Annie E. Ciarks
 Teacher at Eaton school.
 Up to o'clock last evening, when the town clerks office closed for the day, but two women had taken advantage of the law allowing women to vote at echool cleo tions and had applied to Town Clerk Ere thauer for registration. Only few min utes before 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon the right of suffrage was conferred upon Miss Annie E. Clark, teacher in room at Eaton school, and who resides at No. IA Jefferson street.
 Miss Clark is the second woman in the city to take advantage of the new law, the initial step in this direction having been taken by Mrs. Sarah B. Newton, wife of Attorney Henry G. Newton of s9 Sylvan avenue, on Thursday afternoon. Both la dies will cast their first suffrage at the school election in Ssptembar. Now that the ice has been broken it Is more than probable that number of other ladies will also avail themselves of the privilege of casting their ballots at the coming school election.
 The new law does not limit the time, and registration can be made up to the hour of opening the polls on school election day. There Is no charge made for the registra- tion. Town Clerk Brethauer informs the registrar of the ward in which the apph- cant resides, and. the name Is duly printed on the regular voting list.
 Connecticut is one of the few states that grant this suffrage to women and the passage of the act at the recent session ot the general assembly was marked by much opposition. The act under which women may vote is as follows:
 Section 1. Every woman who shall have attained the age of twenty-one years, who shall be citizen of this state, or ot the United States, and who shall have resided in the state one year.. and in the town for six months, and can read the English Ian gusge, shall have the right to vote at any meeting held for the purpose of choosing any officer of schools or for any educa tional purpose under the general or specla laws of this state.
 Section 3. Any woman who is entitled to vote under the first section of this aci | may be registered by the town clerk as { qualified voter in town or school distric meetings, by making application to hin | for that purpose. It shall be the duty O. I the town clerk in each town to keep registry list of the women entitled to vot' | in town or school district meetings unde ! the provisions of this act, and to registe | the names of any women who may appl. | for registration for that purpose; provided that after being examined by him unde oath they shall satisfy him that they hay
 the qualifications required by this act. l Section 3. Any woman, who after tax
 ing such oath before the town clerk, shal
 testify falsely concerning her qualification or shall knowingly vote illegally at an.
 school. town or district meeting, shall b
 guilty of misdemeanor, and, upon con
 viction thereof, shall be punished by fir
 of $50, or imprisoned 30 days.
 Section A. Whenever, in any school dis
 trict, registry lists shall be used by thos
 voting in school district meetings. it shal
 be the duty of the registrars of voters 0
 the towns in which such districts are stu
 ated, to prepare separate lists of the name
 of those women residing in such echoe
 districts that have been registered by tn
 town clerk under the provisions of thi act.
 1 Section D. At all elections to which tn
 provisions of chapter CCXLVII of tn
 public acts of 1889 apply, there shall b
 provided separate ballot box distincti
 marked "For Women's Ballots," and 8
 ballots of persons permitted to vote unds | the provisions of this act shall be deposite in the box so labeled