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NOTICE.
Old Certificates Of Registration
are Void Everybody Must
Register.

The Books of Registration will be Opened
on the First Monday in December next
and kept open for Three Successive
DAYS for the Registration of Voters
Entitled to Registration unter the Con-
stitution--For the Information of the
People Attention is Called to the Fol-
foling Provisions of the New Law, Ap-
proved the Fifth Day of March, 1896.
THE BOOKS OF REGISTRATION SHALL
| ! be opened by the Boards on the first
Monday in April, 1896, at the Court House in
consecutive weeks. They shall be opened
again at the Court House on the first Mondays
IN June. July, August and September, A. D.,
1896, and kept open continually for at least
one week In each Of said months. They shall
be closed thirty days before the general elec-
tion in 1896. After general election in 1896. the
Books OF Registration shall be opened on the
House and kept open for three successive days
in each month until thirty days before the
election In 1885, when they shall be closed un-
I'll the said general election shall have taken
place. The offices and books must be kept
open from 9 o'clock in the forenoon until
o'clock in the afternoon.
The Board OF Registration Ia the Judge OF
the qualifications of all applicants for regis
ary lst, 1898. every male citizen OF this state
and of the United States, twenty-one years OF
age, who Is not an idiot, is not insane. is not
and is not confined In any public prison, and
who has not been con victed OF burglary. ar
son, obtaining goods or money under false
pretenses, perjury, forgery. robbery, bribery,
adultery, wife beating, ,housebreaktng, receiv-
Ing stolen goods, breach Of trust with fraudu-
| lent, intent, sornication, sodomy, Incest, as
satlt with intent to ravish, miscegenation,
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and who shall have been resident In this
State two years. Except ministers In charge
| yf organized churches and teachers OF public
schools, and they after six months residence
In the State,) q resident In the County tor six
months, and in the polling precinct four
months, and who can read any Section IN the
Constitution OF 1895. or can understand and
when read to him by the registration officer
| or officers shall be entitled TO registration and
become elector upon application Tor s9ch
registration. II any person has been convict
ed Of any pr the crimes ahove-mentioned, a
pardon Of the Governor removes the disqnal-
| ifcation. a.. .......
IN case any minor who will become twenty
one years Of age after the closing OF the Books
OF Registratration and before the election,
end is otherwise qualified to register, makes
application under oath showing he is quail
| fed to register, the Boards shall register such
applicant before the closing OF the books. o,oo
| tor will be completed after the closing OF the
Registration Books but before the next cleo
Aon, shall have the right TO apply for and se-
cure registration certificate at any time
| within sixty days Immediately preceding the
closing of the Registration Books, upon an
| application under oath 10 the facts emitting
him to such registration.
! The registration OF voters must be by poll
ing precincts. There m ust be Book OF Reg.
istration for each polling precinct, that is for
leach township. or parish. or city, or tWon OF
less than five thousand Inhabitants, or ward
of cities OF more than five thousand inhabi'
Itapts. Each electoI must vote In the polling
precinct in which he resides. II there is more
than one voting place in the polling precinct,
the elector may vote at any voting place des-
llgnated on the registration certificate. The
Boards must designate In the registration
certificate the voting place In the polling pre-.
cinct at which the elector Is TO vote. II there
Is more than one voting place In the polling
precincts the Boards shall designate on the
certificate the voting place SELECTED by the
elector.
J Old certificates OF registration are void. Ev.
cry man who may desire TO exercise the right
: to vote must apply for Registration.
J. D. CARWILE,
. S. s, B0LEs.
| j. T. ELLIS.
Board OF Supervisors Of Registration.