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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 unter 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 tue Boards on the nrst
Monday In April. 1896, ut 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 me nrst Monoays Z
1906 and kept open continua lily for NJ least
one week in each of said months. They shall
be closed thirty days before the general elec-
lion in 1885, After general election In 1885, the
Books of Registration shall be opened on the
first Monday of each month at the Court
House and kept open for three successive aays
In each month until thirty days before the
election In 1896, when they shall be closed un-
iii the said general election shall have taken
place. The offices and books must be kepL
omen from o'clock in the forenoon until
O'Clock In the afternoon. , -,
The Board OF Registration Ia the Judge OF
the qualifications OF all applicants lot regis
tration up TO January lst, 1898 Up to Janu-
AIRY lst, 1898. every male ciLlzen OF this STATE
aud Of 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 confined In any public prison, and
who has not been con nvlcted OF burglary. ar
son, obtaining goods or money under lalse
pretenses, perjury, forgery, robbery, bribery,
adultery, wife beating, houseoreaR ing, receiV-
| ing stolen goods, breach of trust with iraudu-
sault with intent to ravish, miscegenation,
| larceny, or crimes against the election laws,
and who shall have been resident IN this
State Two years, Except ministers In charge
| yf organized churches and teachers OF public
schools, and they after SIX mont residence
| In the State,) resident In the County ior SIX
months, aud In the polling precinct lour
months, and who can read any Section IN the
| Constitution of 1895, 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 and
become q elector upon application lot sucn
| reg pistration. If any person has been CONVICT
| ed OF any pr the crimes aforementioned, q
pardon of the Governor removes the disqual'
| ltication.
one wears of age after the closing o the Books
of Repistratration and before the election,
and is otherwise qualified to register, makes
| application under oath showing he Ia quail
| fled to register, the Boards shall register such
applicant before the closing of the books.
| Apy person whose qualifications as an elec.
| TOR will be com peted after the closing OF The
Registration Books but before tne next eiec-
| tiou, shall have the right to apply for and se-
cure q registration certificate at any time
within sixty days Immediately preceding the
closing OF The Registration Books, upon an
| application under oath TO The iacts ent1tllng
| 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 o.
| less than i've thousand Inhabitants, or ward
of cities of more than five thousand inhabi-
| tapts Each elector must vote In the polling
precinct In which be resides. If there Is more
| than one voting place In the polling preclnct.
| 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-
cinct at which the eIector Is 10 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.
ery man who may desire TO exercise the right
to vote must apply for Registration.
J. D. CARWILE,
S. S. BOLES,
j. T. ELLIS.
Board Of Supervisors of Registration.