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NOTICE
Old Certificates Of Registration
are Void--Everybody Must Reg
lister Again,

The County Board of Registration has been
organized and the Office OF Registration ts
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
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 con.
| Linually for at least one week In each OF said
months. They shall be closed thirty days be.
fore the general election in 1896. After gen.
eral election in 1896, the Books OF Registration
shall be opened on the first Monday OF each
month at the Court House and kept open for
thirty days before the election in 1898, when
they shall be closed until the said general cleo
tion shall have taken place. The offices and
books must be Kept open from O'clock In the
The Bourd of Registration ia the judge OF
the qualifications Of all applicant for regis
tration up to January lst, 1898. UP TO Jan
uary lst, 1898. every male citizen OF this State
OF age. who Is not an idiot, Is not insane, is
not pauper supported at the public expense,
and is not confined In any public prison, and
arson, obtaining goods or money under false
pretenses, perjury, forgery, robbery; bribery,
adultery, vile beating, house breaking,
receiving stolen goods, breach OF trust
with fraudulent intent, fornication, sodomy,
incest, assault with intent to ravish, miscegi-
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 OF
public schools, and they after six months res
idepce in the State,)a resident In the County
| for six months and In the polling precint lour
months, and who can read any Section IN tne
Constitution of 1895, or can understand and
| explain any section Of said Constitution when
read to him by the registration officer or Of
ficers shall be entitled to registration and De-
| AL, tt0v, or
istratIon. If any person has been convicted
of any Of the crimes above mentioned, par
don or the Governor removes the disquallnca-
| tion.
tyoue years OF age after the closing OF the
Books OF Registration and before the electlon.
and Is otherwise qualified to register, makes
application under oath showing he 1s quali.
applicant before the closing OF the BOOKS.
Any person whose qualifications as an cleo
| tor will be completed after the closing or the
Registration Books but before the next cleo
! tion shall have the right to apply tor ana Sc
| cure registration certificate at any Time
within sixty days Immediately preceding tne
closing or the Registration Books, upon an
application under oath to the facts entltllng
! him TO such registration.
The registration of voters must be by poll
ing precincts. There must be Book OF heg-
istration for each polling precinct, that ID LOT
each township, or parish, or city. or town OF
| less than five thousand Inhabitants, or wara
of cities of more than five thousand lnnapl-
tants. Each elector must vote In the polllng
precinct in which he resides. If there Is
more than one voting place in the polling
precinct, the elector may vote at any Votlng
place designated on the registration certln'
cate The Boards must designate In the regis
tration certificate the voting place III the poll
| ing precinct at which the eector Is 10 vote.
| II there is more than one voting place IN tne
polling precinct, the Boards shall designate
on the certificate the voting place selected ny
the elector. ~
Old certificates of registration are void. EV.
cry man who may desire to exercise the right
to vote must apply for Registration.