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

The Books of Repatriation 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.
stitutior-T'or 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
i be opened by the Boards on Che first
Monday In April, 1896, at the Court House IN
consecutive weeks. They shall be opened
again at the Court House on the first Mondays
IN June. July, August and September, A.; D..
lssS, and kept open S%on IinnahSy f %hs az s iSas II
be closed thirty days before the general cleo
ton In 1896. After general election In 1898, the
Books Of Registration shall be opened on the
House and Eept open for three successive days
in each month until thirty days before the
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 9 o'clock in the forenoon until 8
O'Clock in the afternoon.
The Board OF Registration Is the Judge o.
the qualifications of all applicants for regis
sry 1877. p pyss to s Ssnya %si 1st si 1sss; S 81 sS II 1 Sac
and of the United States. twenty-one years o.
age, who ia not an idiot, is not insane. Is not
q pauper supported at the public expense
who has not been convicted Of burglary. ar.
son. obtaining goods OF money under false
pretenses, perjury, forgery, robbery, bribery
adultery, wife beating, housebreaking receiv.
lent, Intent, sornication, sodomy, incest, as.
sault with intent to ravish, miscegenation,
larceny, or crimes against the election laws,
and who shall q been q resident IN this
VI organized churches and teachers Of public
schools, and they after six months residence
In the State,) a resident In the County TOR six
month"; month"; ? a and who iR e sne rsgs oail any gsetion In fG thu
Constitution Of 1895, or can understand and
explain any section OF said Constitution
when read 10 him by the registration officer
Or officers shall be entitled to registration and
become a elector upon application for such
registration. II any person has been convict
cd OF any pr the crimes aforementioned, q
pardon Of the Governor removes the d1squal'
lication.
In case any minor Who will become twenty.
one years of age after the closing OF the Books
Of REPRESENTATION and before the election,
and 10 otherwise qualified to register, makes
application unde oath showing he 10 quail.
lied to register, tue Boards shall register such
applicant before the closing Of the books.
Any person whose qualifications as an cleo
tor Will be completed after tne Closing OF tne
Registration Books but before the next elec-
ton, shall have the right TO apply for and Sc
cure a registration certificate at q time
within sixty days Immediately preceding the
closing Of the Registration Books, upon an
application under oath to the facts emitting
him tosuch registration.
The registration OF voters must be ty poll
ing precincts. There must be q Book Of Reg
isiratson for each polling precinct, that is for
each township, or parish. or city, or won OF
less than five thousand Inhabitants, or ward
Of cities Of more thar five thousand inhabi.
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 elsctor may vote at n voting place des-
ignated on the registration certificate. The
Boards must designate in the registration
certif cate the voting place In the polling pre-
cinct Mt which the elector ID 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. w.
Old certificates Of registration are Yoid. Ev'
ery man who may desire to exercise the right
to vots must apply for Registration.
j.. D. CARWILE,
81. 8. BOLES,
w. A. LANIIER.
Beard OF Supervisors Of Registration.