Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-08-14
The New Registration Law.
Chapter 8, Acts of Extra Session 1895

An Act to amend CHAPTER 25 of the
Acts of the Extra Session of the Gen
eral Assembly of 1890, and Chapter
224, Acts of the General Assembly
passed March %, 1901, and Chapter 12
Acts of the Extra Session of the Gen
eral Assembly passed September IS,
1891, so as to provide that only one
general registration every two and four
years shall be required of voters under
the provisions of the Acts of which this
is amendatory.
Section /. Be it enacted by the Gen.
eral Assembly of the State of Tennes-
see, That Chapter 25, Acts of the Extra
Session of the General Assembly of
1890, passed March /, 1890, and Chap.
ter 224, Acts of the General Assem- bly,,
passed March 2S, 1891, and Chapter 10,
Acts of an Extra Session of the General
Assembly of 1891, be and the same is
hereby amended so as to provide that
only one general registration every
two ~ and four AZ years shall be re.
quired of voters to entitle them to vote
under the provisions of said Acts, ex-
cept upon a change of residence. Pro.
vided, that registration shall not be
good for more than two years.
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That
in all of the territory wherein voters
are, by law, required to register, the
registrators OF the various wards and
districts shall open the registration
books on the second Monday in August,
1895, and on the second Monday of Au-
gust every second year thereafter, and
the same shall be kept open for the
registration of voters for ten days, not
counting Sundays, and all the qualified
voters in said wards and districts desir-
ing to register as voters shall register
within the said ten days in the manner
registration is now required by law to
be made, and the registrators shall is.
sue certificates of registration as now
provided by law.
Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That
registration as provided for in the Sec
ond section of this act, and the other
provisions thereof, shall be requisite to
voting in all elections in such territory
aud that when such registration has
been made under the provisions of this
act, no other or further general regis.
tration for two and four years shall be
made or required rs prerequisite to
his voting, except in case where the
voter has changed his residence.
Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That
no voter shall be allowed to vote al
any election wherein registration is re.
quired by law unless he shall have first
registered under the provisions of this
act as much as twenty days before the
election wherein he offers to vote is
held. But registration of voters shall
only be required every four years here.
after in civil districts having less than
five thousand population according to
the last census, whenever said districts
are in counties no wholly subject by
the present laws to registration.
Sec. 8. Be it further enacted, That
all persons who shall have registered
under the provisions of this act, and
hereafter change their residence by re-
moving to another, either within OF
without the ward or district where reg
istered shall not be qualified to vote in
any election thereafter held without
first having registered under the pro
visions of this act as much as twenty
days previous to any election where he
offers to vote, and the registrars in
such cases shall take up and cancel
the certificates formerly issued to such
voter unless the same has been lost ol
destroyed. .
Sec. 6. Be it further enacted, Tha
the registrars of the various wards ol
districts, shall, in the manner now re
quired by law, except that no adver
tisement shall be necessary, open tn,
books of the wards and districts, Of
either OF them, for registration of vo
ters previous to any election to be helC
in any ward or district or precinct o.
voting place therein and that the book
shall be kept open three days for regis
tration and said registration days shall
be continuous and the books closet
twenty days previous to the election
and the registrars shall upon persona
application of voters register such vo
ters who have not previously registered
under the prov isions of this act and re
register those who have changed thei
residence. -..-.
Sec. Z. Be it further enacted, That OF
the day Of any election held the regis
trars Of each district or voting precinc
shall appear at the place of holding
said election with the books in which
said voters are numbered, togethe
with a copy of the same, which shall
be evidence of registration and the,
shall occupy place inside the polling
J precincts and as each voter therein reg
, istered shall vote said registrars shal
check off or mark said voter; and SAT-
registrars shall make a copy of SAT-
voters checked off and return the sam
to the officer holding the election VIII,
shall file the same with election returns
for which service each registrar shall
J be paid by the county the sum of on
dollar per day, but in no event shall