The morning news., 1894-11-24

. street lane.
Precinct No. 16Bouuded north by Boil
/ ton street, east by Waters road, south by
/ New Houston street and west by Bull
I street.
]. II. Wilder's store. northeast corner
! New Houston and LiuColu's streets
/ Precinct No. H-Bouuded north by new
Houston street, sycamore tree and lOl
and l03 Springfield plantation, east by
. Bull street, south by lots So and 81 Spring
field plantation and by colored portion
/ Of Laurel Grove cemetery and Ogeechee
road and Anderson street and west by
F the western city limits.
i. 3. Greer's grocery southwest cor
ner New Houston and Barnard streets.
Precinct No. 18-B0unded north by New
/ Houston street, east by Waters road,
/ south by Lovers lane and Anderson street
/ and west by Bull street
/ G. a. MINISTER'S store, northeast cor
ner Drayton and Duffy streets.
Precinct No. 19-Bouuded north by An
/ dersOn street, Ogeechee road, white por-
I tion Of Laurel Grove cemetery, IS ana 81
/ Springfield plantation and unnamed
/ street in Springfield plantation, east by
Bull street, south by the present cor
porate southern limits and West Twelfth
street and west by the western city lin
its.
St. J. r. Yonge's drug store, northeast
/ corner Jefferson and Tenth streets
Precinct No. 20-Bounded north by An
. dersOn street, east by East Broad street,
south by Estill avenue, and west by Bun
street
Toll Gate White Bluff Road.
The electoral commission will appoint
. registrars for the city election to-day.
. Judge Falligant is engaged in Liberty
county in hearing the trial of Leander
. II. Tanner charged with the killing OF
I Manning Waters, a statement of which
| was given in yesterdays Morning News,
and he will not be able to be present at
the meeting of the commission. a ma
jority of the commission, however, is
competent to act in the matter and
Judges Ferrill and MacDOnell will make
/ the appointments.
Three sets of candidates have been sub
/ mitted to the commission to choose from,
the Citizens Club, or Myers faction hav-
ing presented one list the administration,
/ or McDonough faction, a list, and the
Schwarz-Duncan faction another list The
law says: 1T shall not be lawful for the
commission to appoint both registrars in
| one precinct who are known to be ad-
herents of any one ticket or candidate
for office, but the commission Will en-
deavor with fairness to give all parties
contesting for office repre- -entation among
the registrars in each district. with
three factions to please it is difficult to see
how the commission can comply with
the requirement of the law to give all
parties cOntesting for office representation
among the registrars in each district
The registration will be held on the
first and second Tuesdays, and the second
and third Saturdays in December So the
registration will not open until Tuesday
week. The hours of registration will be
from o'clock a. m. until o Sock p. m.
As the number of voters estimated to
each precinct is 800, all the voters in eaCB
precinct will have ample opportunity to
register in the time allowed by law.
Mr. Osborne has several amendments
TO the election law now before the leg
islature, which materially change its
character, as already stated in the Morn
ing News Under section of the pres
ent law any citizen is entitled to register
in the election precinct in which he is a
bona tide resident at the date he presents
himself for registration, and who has the
qualifications required OF voters as pre-
scribed by the code. he is required tC
produce receipts showing the payment
of all taxes due the state and county
for theyear next preceding that in which
the election is held and also the pro
duction of the receipt of the city treas
urer for the third quarter of the curren
: year. This is to be prima facie evidence
7 of the payment of all taxes due the state
city and county. This, it will be seen
/ requires the voter to pay his stat
and county taxes for 1894 and his cit!
taxes for the first, second and thirc
> quarters in order to be eligible to reg
! ister
The amendment to section change
: this section to read that any citizel
I shall be allowed to register in the election
, precinct in which he is a bona fide resi-
dent at the day he presents himself 70
registration who has complied with tn
requirements under the code, who ha
y paid all taxes required of them and whic
% they may have had an opportunity 0
Il paying since the adoption of the cOnsutu
u tion of 1877, including the state and count
taxes for the year next preceding tn
election, and who have paid all city take
n required of them or have in their ow
l. right sufficient real estate to satisfy an
L. tax execution which may be issued agains
y them, provided, however, that should tn
"a name of any citizen appear upon the coun
ty registration books that fact shall b
y prima facie evidence of the payment b
IL said citizen of all taxes due to the stat
and county up to the time of such stat
h and county registration" Some have ur
" derstood the latter portion of this amend
III ment to mean that the fact G
I'd a voters name appearing upo
he the county registration books fo
1894 would entitle him to registe
b. for the city election without the paymen
of further taxes. A close reading of tn
y amendment will show, however, that thi
t is not the case. The appearance of tn
Id name upon the registration books is mere
III ly to be accepted as evidence that tn
n required of him to the date of that regis
tration. State and county taxes for is
is and all city taxes, except for the fourt
q, quarter of the present year, will have [
III be paid before the applicant can legal
n be registered. The change in this sectio
ID appears to be more in the wording than
Jy the meaning. The provision requiring II
payment of all state and county take
ID since 1877. which was not included in tf
present law, is in accordance with ii
es constitution.
1y Section , of the bill amends section
It, of the present law by removing the book
d, from the custody of the clerk of the cit
IT, alrt to the clerk of the ordinary
er court. Section 10 of the present law a
lows the books to be kept open for n
by spectlon when not actually in use. II
80 amendment provides that the registrar
nd shall keep a separate list apart from IL
tn registration books of the names of a
a. voters registered. These lists are to COZ
tain nothing but the names of the voter
st At the close of each day Of registratc
these lists are to be filed In the Office
st the clerk of council, who Is required
make out and publish an alphabetic