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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 the Boards on the hrst
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
In June, July, August and September, 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 cleo.
ton In 1896. After general election In 1895, the
Books OF Registration shall be opened on the
first Monday of each month at the Court
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election In 1896, when they shall be closed I'M
til 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 OF
the qualifications Of all applicants for regis
tration up TO January LIST, 1898. UP TO Janu-
airy lst, 1895. every male citizen OF this State
and 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 onvicted OF burglary. ar.
son, obtaining goods or money under false
pretenses, perjury, forgery, robbery, bribery,
adultery, wife beating, housebreaking, receiv-
ing stolen goods, breach Of trust with fraudu.
lent, intent, s%ornication, sodomy, incest, as
o.,,,1f III liant 4 ~ in ~ Cn0Onn n
larceny, or crimes against the election laws,
and who shall have been a resident In this
State two years, except ministers In charge
IF organized churches and teachers Of public
schools, and they after SIX months residence
in the State,) @ resident In the County Tor six
months, and In the polling precinct four
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 a elector upon application TOR such
registration. If any person has been convict
ed Of any pr the crimes aforementioned, q
pardon Of the Governor removes the disqual.
iicatiop. .
IN case any minor who will become twenty
one years of age after the closing OF the Books
Of Registratration and before the election,
and Is otherwise qualified to register, makes
application unde oath showing be Ia quail.
fed to register, the Boards shall register such
applicant before the closing OF the BOOKS.
any POlooh "hooS oS
tor will be completed after the closing Of the
Registration Books but before the next cleo
ton, shall have the right to apply for and &C.
cure a registration certificate at any time
within sixty days Immediately preceding the
closing of the Registration Books, upon an
application under oath 70 the facts emitting
him to such registration.
The registration OF voters must be by poll
Ing precincts. There must be a Book OF Reg.
istracion 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 han five thousand inhabi.
tapts. Each elector must vote In the polling
precinct In which be 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-
cinct at which the elector Is 10 vote. If 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 mar who may desire TO exercise the right
to vote must apply for Registration.
j. D. CARWILE,
s. s. BOLES,
J. 7. ELLIS.
Board of Supervisors of Registration.