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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, APP
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 ID
each County, and kept open for at least SIX
consecutive weeks. They shall DC opened
In June, July, August and September, A: d.,
1885, and kept open continually for at least
one week In each Of said mon ths. They snail
be closed thirty days before the general eec.
ton In 1896. After general election In 1896. the
Books OF Registration shall be Opeued on the
first Monday of each month at the Court
House and kept open for three successive days
in each month until thirty days before the
election in 1896, when they shall he closed un-
til the said general election shall have taken
place. The offices and books must be kept
open from 9 o'clock In the forenoon untll .
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
ary LIST, 1895, every male citizen OF this STATE s
and of the United States. twenty-one years oi
age, who Is not an idiot, Is not insane. is not
a pauper supported at the public expense,
and Is not ntned In any public prison, ana
who has not been convicted OF burg larry. ar.
son, obtaining goods or money under false
pretenses perjury, forgery robbery, bribery,
adultery, wife beating, hollsebrea ing, receiV-
ngstolen goods, breach OF trust with iraudu-
lent, intent, sornication, sodomy, incest, as
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 months residence
in the State) q resident In the County for 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 n elcctor upon application tor such
registration. II any person has been convict
ed OF any of the crimes aforementioned,
pardon Of the Governor removes the disqua!-
iflcatlon.
In case any minor who will become twenty
one years of nge after the closing OF the Books
of Registratration and before the election,
and is otherwise qualified to register, makes
application under oath showing he is quail
fled to register, the Boards shall register such
applicant before the closing Of the books.
ANY person whose qualifications as an cleo
tor Will be competed alIFT IIe CiOSlHe vi Ile
Registration Books but before the next elec-
tion, Shall have the right to apply for and Sc
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 tosuch registration. ,
The registration OF voters must be by poll
Ing precincts. There must he Book OF Reg
islration 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-
tants. Each elector must vote in the polling
precinct i'm which he resides. II there Is more
Than one voting place in the polling precinct,
the elector may vote NJ any voting place des-
ignntcd on the registration certificate. The
Boards must designate In the registration
certificate the voting place in the polling pre-
cinch at which the elector is TO vote. If thrrc
is more thnn one voting place in tile polling
precincts, the BOnrdS shall designate on the
certificate the voting place selected by the
eectOr.
Old certificates of registration are void. t.v-
ery man who may desire to exercise the right
to vote must apply for Registration.
j. ID. CARWlLE,
S. S. BOLES,
W. \. LANIER.
Board OF Supervisors of Registration.
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