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REGISTRATION NOTICE,
Old Certificates Of Registration
are Void Everybody Must
Register.

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, 1895.
THE BOOKS OF REGISTRATION SHALL
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
ip June, July, August and September, A. d.,
1895, and kept open continually for at least
one week in each Of said months. They shall
be closed thirty days before the general cleo.
ton in 1895. After general election In 1870, tne
Books OF Registration shall be opened on the
irst Monday of each month at the Court
House ant Kept open for three successive days
Ia each month until thirty days before the
election In 1895, when they shall be closed IN
place. The offices and books must be Kept
omen from 8 o'clock in the forenoon until D
o'clock in the afternoon.
The Board OF Registration is the Judge OF
tratlon up to January LIST, 1898. UP TO Janu.
ary LIST, 1898, every male citizen OF this state
and of the United States. ~twenty-one years OF
age, who is not an idiot, is not insane. 10 not
a pauper supported at Inc eu Pnoii nr, sope and
VINO has not been convicted of burglary. ar.
son, obtaining goods or money unoer raise
pretenses, perjury, forgery, ROBBERY, orloeTy'
adultery, wife beating, h0useoreaklng, receiV-
ing stolen goods, breach Of trust will fraudu-
lent, intent, sornication, sodomy, incest, as
sault with intent to ravish, miscegenatlon
larceny, or crimes against the election laws,
and who shall awe been a resident IN TINS
State Two years, Except ministers In charge
VI organized churches and teachers OF pubic
schools, and they after six months residence
In the StateD a resident In the County Tor Six
months, and who can read any Section In the
Constitution OF 1895, or can understand ana
explain any section of said CONSTITUTION
when read to him by the REGISTRATION omceI
become a elector upon application Tor sucn
repistration. If any person has been convict
ed of any of the crimes bove-mentloneo q
pardon OF the Governor removes the disquai-
In case any minor who will become twenty
one wears of age after the closing ofthe BOOKS
of Transformation and before the election,
and Is otherwise quaiinea 10 Teg's Se = m n"aII'
fed to register, the Boards snail register SUCH
applicant before the closing of the books.
ANY person whose qualifications as an cleo
tor will be com after the closing OF the
Registration Books but before the next cleo
lion. shall have the right to apply for and BE-
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 a Book OF Reg
istration for each polling precinct, hat Is lot
each township, or parish. or city, or tWon OF
less than five thousand Inhabitants, or ward
of cities of more than five thousand inhaol-
tants. Each elector 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 Ges-
ignated on the registration certificate. Inc
Boards must designate In the registration
certificate the voting place In the polling pre-
cinct at which the elector Is 10 vote. II mere
is more than one voting place In the pollihg
precincts, the Boards shall designate on the
certificate the voting place selected by the
elector. =,
Old certificates OF registration are void. EV-
ery man who may desire to exercise the rlght
to vote must apply for Registration.
j. D. CARWILE,
S. s. BOLES,
w. A. LANIER.
Board of Supervisors of Registration.