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REGISTRATION 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 urter 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. 1886, at the Court House IN
each County, and Kept open for at least SIX
consecutive weeks. They shall he opened
again at the Court House on the first Mondays
IN June, July, August and Septem her, 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.
ton in 1896. Alter general election in 1876. 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 he closed un-
Til the said general election shal! nave taken
place. The offices and books must be kept
open from o'clock in the forenoon until )
O'Clock In the afternoon.
The Board OF Registration is the judge Of
the qualifications OF all applicants for regis
AIRY LIST, 1895. every male citizen of this State
and CT the United States. twenty-one years OF
age who is not an idiot. is not insane. Is not
a pauper supported at the public expense.
and is not coniined In any public prison, and
who has not been convicted of burglary. ar
son, obtaining goods or money under false
pretenses, perjury, forgery, robbery, bribery.
adultery, wife heating, h0usebreaklng, receiv-
ing stolen goods, breach of trust with fraudu-
lent intent, sornication, sOdomy, incest. as
sault with intent to ravish, mscegenation,
larceny, or crimes against the election laws,
and who shall have been resident IN thls
State two years. texcept ministers In charge
Vt organized churches and teachers of public
schools, and they after SIX months residence
! in The State,) n resident In the County for slX
months, and in the polling precinct lour
months, and who can read any Section IN the
Constitution OF 1893, or can understand and
explain any section OF said constitution
when read TO him by the registration Officer
or officers shall be entitled TO registration ana
become a elector upon application Tor Such
| registration. IL any person has been convict
| ed of any pf the crimes aforementioned, d
pardon of the Governor removes Inc dlsquaI-
| iticalion.
| IN case any minor who will become twenty
one years of age after the closing of the Books
of REORGANIZATION and before the election,
and is otherwise qualified To register, makes
application under oath showing he IL 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 e'ec-
ton, 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
lauplicatiOn under oath 10 the facts emitting
| him tohuch registration. .
| The registration of voters must be 10y poll
Ing precincts. There must be Book OF Reg
| istratiun for each polling precinct, that is Tor
! each township, or parish. or city, or twon OF
! less than five thousand ihhabitants, or ward
of cities OF more than five thousand inhabl-
tants. Each eector 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-
ignated on the registration certificate. The
| Boards must designate In the registration
certificate the voting place in the polling pre-
ciuct AT which The elertOr 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
| Old certificates Of registration are void. Ev-
cry man who may desire 10 exercise the right
| To vote must apply for Registration.
J. ID. CARWTLE,
S. S. BOLES,
]. r. ELLIS.
Board of Supervisors of Registration.