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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-Por 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 10
each County, and kept open for at least sl4
again at the Court House on the first Mondays
in June, July, August and September, A: D.,
1895, and kept open continuaily f3r at least
one week In each OF said months. They shall
be closed thirty days before the general elec'
ton In 1896. After general election In 1885, the
Books OF Registration shall be opened on the
| first Monday of each month at the Court
House and
election in 1896, when they shall be closed un-
I'll the said general election shall have taken
place, The offices and books must be Kept
open from o'clock IN the forenoon until
The Board OF Registration is the Judge OF
the qualifications of all applicants for regis
tration up to January 1st, 1898. UP TO Janu.
and of the United States. twenty-one years of
age. who is not an idiot. Ia not Insane. is not
a pauper supported at the public expense,
and Ia not confined 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 beating, housebreaK ing, recelV-
ing stolen goods, breach OF trust with lraudu'
| lent, Intent sornication, sodomy, incest as
sault with intent to ravish, miscegenatlon,
larceny, or crimes against the election laws,
and who shall have been resident In this
State two years, Except ministers In charge
| VT organized churches and teachers OF public
Schools and they after six months residence
In the State,) a resident In the County TOR Six
months and IN the podng Paetion in tbe
Constitution OF 1895, or can understand and
explain any section of said Constitution
when read to him by the registration ofncer
or officers shall be entitled to registration and
become a elector upon application for such
registration. If any person has been convict
ed OF any of the crimes aforementioned q
pardon of the Governor removes the dlsqual-
In case any minor who will become twenty
one years of age after the closing OF the Books
of Reglstratration and before the election,
and Is otherwise qualifed 10 register, MAKE
application under oath showing he Ia quail
fed to register, the Boards shall register such
applicant before the closing of the books.
Any person whose qualifications as an cleo
tor Will be cOnDISL dICtI Illc CIOsius VI tuC
Registration Books but before the next elec-
tiop, shall have the right to apply for and se-
cure a registration certificate at any time
within sixty days Immediately preceding the
closing of the Registration Books, upon an
application under oath TO 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
each township, or parish. or city, or tWon OF
less than five thousand Inhabitants, or ward
of cities OF more than five thousand inhabl-
tants. Each elector 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 Ges-
irnated on the registration certificate Ihe
Boards must designate In the registration
certificate the voting place In the polling pre-
cipct at which the elector is TO vote. III there
is more than one voting place In the polling
precincts, the Boards shall designate on the
certificate the voting place selected by the
Old certificates of registration are void. Ev.
ery man who may desire to exercise the rlght
to vote must apply for Registration.
j. u. CARWILE,
S. s. BOLES,
w. A. LANIER
Board of Supervisors of Registration.