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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
i be opened by the Boards on the first
Monday in April. 1896, at the Court House In
each County, and kept open for al least six
consecutive weeks. They shall be opened
again at the Court House on the first Mondays
In June. July, August and September, A: D. !,
one week In each of said months They shall
be closed thirty days. before The general elec-
ton in 1896. After general election In 1926, the
Books OF Registration shall be opened on the
first Monday of each month at the Court
House and kept open for three successive days
in each month until thirty days before the
election In 1896, when they shall oe closed un-
til the said general election shall have taken
place. The offices and books must be Kept
open from 9 o'clock in the forenoon until q
o'clock In the afternoon.
The Board OF Registration ia the Judge OF
the qualifications of all applicants for regis
tration up to January 1st, 1898. Up to Janu.
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 convicted OF burglary: ar
son, obtaining goods or money under talse
adultery, wife beating, ,housebreaking, receiv-
ing stolen goods, breach of trust with fraudu.
lent, intent, sornication, sodomy, incest, as
sault with intent to ravish. m1scegenatlon,
49, 1.ts~ net hn
and who shall have been q: resident In this
State two years, Except ministers In charge
yf organized churches and teachers OF public
and they after SIX b 5aonEns tor sx
months, and In the polling precinct four
months, and who can read any Sector IN the
Constitution OF 1895. or can underBtand and
when read to him by the registration officer
or officers shall be entitled to registration and
become elector upon application ior sncn
| registration. II any person has heen con vlct-
ed of any pf the crimes aforementioned, a
pardon OF the Governor removes the dlsqual-
| ification.
In case any minor who will become twenty
one years Of age after the closing OF Ghe BOOKS
Of Regis tratration and before The election,
and is otherwise qualified to reg lister, makes
application under oath showing he is quail.
fled to register, the Boards shall reg lister such
applicant before the closing of the books.
| Any person whose qualifications en- an cleo
tor will lie completed after the closing OF the
Registration Books but before the next elec-
ton, shall have the right to apply for and Sc
cure a registration certificate at any time
within sixty days Immediately preceding the
closing CT the Registration Books, upon an
application under oath to the facts entitling
him to such registration.
| The reg gistration of voters must be- by poll.
ing preci pcts. There must be Book OF Reg.
lstration for each polling precinct, That Is for
eaC a tow pship, or parish. or city, or tWon o.
| les1 than five thousand Inhabitants or ward
of cities of more than five thousand 1nnaol'
tapts. Each elector must vote In the polling
precinct in which he resides. II Lhere Is more
than one voting place In the polling precinct
the electOr may vote at any voting place def.
ignated 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 70 vote. II there
Is more taan one voting place In the polling
precincts, the Boards shall designate on the
certificate the voting place selected by the
eector.
| Old certificates of registration are void. Ev
cry man who may desire TO exercise the righ,
to vote must apply for Registration.
j. u. CARWILE,
| S. s. BOLEs,
IT. ELLIS.
Board of Supervisors OF Registration.