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NOTICE.
Old Certificates Of Registration
are Void--EVerybody Must Beg
lister Again.

lSter Again.
The County Board of Registration has been
organized and the Office OF Registration is
now open In accordance with law, the main
provisions of which are as follows:
The Books of Registration shall be opened
by the Boards on the first Monday In April,
! 1896, at the Court House in each County, and
kept open for at least six consecutive weeks.
They shall beopened again at the Court House
on the first Mondays In June. July, August,
and September, A. D. 1896, and kept open con.
| tinually for at least one week in each of said
months. They shall be closed thirty days be-
fore the general election IN 1885,; After gen.
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
they shall be closed until the said general elec.
tion shall have taken place. The offices and
books must be kept open from o'clock In the
forenoon until o'clock in the afternoon.
the qualifications Of all applicant for regis
tration up TO January lst, 1898. UP to JAN
uary LIST, 1898. every male citizen OF this State
and Of the United States. twenty-one years
not a pauper supported at the public expense,
and is not confined in any public prison, and
who has not been convicted OF burglary,
arson, obtaining goods or money under false
Se beaHs
| receiving stolen goods, breach Of trust
with fraudulent intent, fornication, sodomy,
| incest, assault with intent to ravish, rniscegi-
| nation, larceny, or crimes against the election
laws, and who shall have been resident in
this state two years, except ministers In
| charge OF organized churches and teachers or
public schools, and they after six months res
idence In the State,)a a resident In the County
for six months, and In the polling precint four
months, and who can read any Section In the
Consultation OF 1895, or can understand and
explain any section Of said Constitution when
toll m " ppI RAJ officer a
hcers; shall be entitled 10 registration and be-
come an elector upon. application for such reg.
istration. II any person has been convicted
Of any Of the crimes above mentioned, par
| tion. SSG
In case any minor who will become TWEEN.
| lone years of age after the closing. OF the
Books OF Registration and before the elecuon,
application under oath showing he is quail
fled to register, the Boards shall register such
kapplicant before the closing II the DOCKS.
\ Any person whose qualifications as an cleo
tor will be completed after theNclosing OF the
Registration Books but before the ne31n
tion, shall have the right TO apply fo1
cure registration certificate at an
within sixty days Immediately preoedS
closing OF the Registration Books, upy
application under oath to the facts entl
him to such registration.
The registration OF voters must be by
ing precincts There must be Book OF Reg
istration for each polling precinct, that Is for
each township, or parish, or city, or town Of
less than dve thousand Inhabitants or ward
Of cities Of more than five thousand inhabi-
tants. Each elector must vote in the polling
precinct In which he resides. If there is
more than one voting place in the polling
place designated on the registration certih-
cate The Boards must designate In the regis.
tration certificate the voting place III the poll
ing precinct at which the elector Is TO vote
II there Is more than one voting place In the
polling precinct, the Boards shall designate
on the certificate the voting place selected by
the elector. +zE
Old certificates OF registration are void. Ev-
cry man who may desire to exercise the right
to vote must apply for Registration.