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REGISTRATION notice.
Old Certificates Of Registration /
are Void Everybody Must
Register. :.

and kept Open for Three Successive
Days for the Registration of Voters
Entitled to Registration unter the Com
stitution-For the Information Of tho
People Attention is Called to the Fol-
foling Provisions of the New Law, Ap-i
proved the Fifth Day of March, 1898.
THE BOOKS OF REGISTRATION SHALL
! be opened by the Boards on the first,
Monday In April. 1896, at the Court House In;
each County and Kept open fHr a. ss Least sd
again at the Court House on the first Mondays
In June, July, August and september, A. D..
1885, and kept open continually for at least
be closed thirty days before the general elec-i
tion 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 kept open for three successive M @ Gays s
election In 1895, 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
o'clock in the afternoon.
The Board OF Registration is the Judge OF
the qualifications Of all applican ats for regis
tration up to January 1st, 1885, Up TO Janu-
ary Ist, 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, is not
pauper supported at the public expense,
Who who b has not been convicted Of burglary. ar
son, obtaining goods or money under 1alse
pretenses, perjury, forgery, robbery, bribery,
adultery, wife beating, housebreaking, receiV-
ing stolen goods, breach Of trust with fraudu-
lent, intent sornication, sOdomy, incest, as
sault with intent to ravish, miscegenation,
larceny, or crimes against the election laws,
State two years, except ministers in charge
Vt organized churches and teachers OF public ,
schools, and they after Six months residence
In the State,) resident In the County Tor Blk
months, and In the polling precinct four
months, and who can read any Section In the
Constitution OF 1885, or can understand and
explain any section OF said CONSTITUTION
or officers shall be entitled to registration and
become a elector upon application lor sucn
registration. II any person has oeen con vict-
ed OF any pf the crimes aboVe-mentloneo,
pardon OF the Governor removes the disqual-
ifcation. .
In case any minor who will become twenty
one wears of age after the closing or the BOOKS
Of Registratration and before the election,
application under oath showing he 1s quail
fled to register, the Boards shall register such
applicant before the closing of the books.
tor will be com pleted after the closing Of the
Registration Books but before the next cleo ..
ton, shall have the right to apply for and Sc
cure a registration certificate at any time
r.
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 inhabi-
tapts. 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 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 to 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-
ery man who may desire to exercise the right
to vote must apply for Registration.
J. D. CARWILE, =.
s. s. BOLES,
]. T. ELLIS.
Beard of Supervisors of Registration.