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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 Is
now open In accordance with law, the main
provisions OF which ure 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 be opened again at the Court House
on the first Mondays In June: July, August,
and September, a. D. 1896, and kept open con.
tnually 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
three successive days In each month until
thirty days before the election in lS0S, when
they shall be closed until the said general elec.
tion shall have taken place. The offices and
hooks must be kept open from o'clock In the
forenoon until 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
The Board OF Registration Is the judge OF
the qualifications Of all applicant for regis
tration up 10 January lst: lS9S. UP TO Jan
uary lst, 1893. every male citizen OF this State
and of the United States. twenty-nne years
OF age, who Is not an idiot, is not insane, Is
not II pauper supported at the public expense,
who has not been convicted OF burglary,
arson, obtaining goods or money under false
pretenses, perjury, forgery, roooery; orloery'
adultery, vile beating, house breaking,
with fraudulent intent, fornication, sodomy,
Incest, assault with Intent TO ravlsh, mlscegi-
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
dence In the StateDa resident in the County
for six months. and in the polling preclnt four
months and who can read any Section In the
Constitution of 1895, or can understand and
xplain any section OF said Constitution when
read 10 him by the registration officer or Of
ficers shall be entitled TO registration and be-
come an eector upon application for such reg.
istration. IF any person has been con victed
of any of the crimes above ment toned, par
don OF the Governor removes the disqualltca-
tiOn.
In case any minor who will become TWEEN
ty.one years Of age after the closing OF the
Books OF Registration and before the election &.
and is otherwise qualified to register, makes
application under oath showing ne Is quail
fled to register, the Boards shall register such
applicant before the closing of the books,
Any person whose qualifications as an cleo
tor will be completed after the closing OF the
Registration Books but before the next elec
tion, shall have the right TO apply for and Sc
cure a 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 must be BOOK OF Reg-
istration for each polling precinct, that Is for
en- ch township, or parish, or city, or town OF
less than five thousand inhabitants, or Ward
of cities of more than five thouss nd inhabi-
tants. Each eecior must vote in the polling
precinct in which he resides. If there Is
more than one voting place In the polling
precinct, the elector may vote at any voting
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 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 eectOr.
Old certificates of registration are void. Ev-
cry man who may desire to exercise the right
TO vote must apply for Registrsti0n:
J. d. CARW1LE,
$. S. BOLES,
j. II. ELLIS,
Board Of Supervisors OF Registration.