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

lue bOohS VI neSloSl d1AoA "2A w SFS~~
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.
r1HE BOOKS OF REGISTRATION SHALL
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.,
ls0Gs and Kept open continually for at least
one week In each of said months. They snail
be closed thirty days before the general cleo
tlon in 1896. After general election In ls96, the
hooks OF Registration shall be opened on the
frst Monday OF each month at the Court
House and kept open for three successive Gays
In each month until thirty days before the
election in 1896, when they shall De closed un-
til the said general election snail nave taken
nIace. 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 applicants for regis
tration up to January lst, 1895 UP to Janu
ary lst. 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. 1s not
6. pauper supported at the Pnoiic r,H EXPENSE oSG
who has not been convicted OF burglary. ar
son, obtaining goods or money under ialse
pretenses, perjury, forgery, robbery, orloery'
adultery, wife beating, housebreak Ing, TeceiV-
ing stolen goods, breach of trust wi tn fraudu'
lent. Intent, sornication, sodomy, incest, as
sault with intent to ravish, miscegenation,
larceny, or crimes against the electlon laws,
and who shall have been resident ID tnls
State two years, except ministers In charge
VT organized churches and teachers OF pupllc
Schools, and they after SIX months residence
In the State) a resident In the county ,or SIX SIX
months, and who can read any Section IN the
Constitute OF 1895, or can understand ana
explain any section OF said Constltullon
wien read to him by the registration on1cer
or officers shall be entitled to registration ana
become a elector upon application ior such
registration. If any person has been convict
ed of any of the crimes above-mentioned, a
pardon Of the Governor removes the disqual-
iflcation. "
In case any minor who will become twenty
one years of age after the closing OF tne BOOKS
of Registratration and before me electlon,
and is OF herwise 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 viii be completed after the closing of the
Registration Books but before the next elec-
tio1, shall have the right to apply Tor ana 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 entltllns
i'm 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 I've thousand Inhabitants, or ward
of cities of more than five thousand inhaol'
Iapts Each elector must vote In the polling
precinct in which he resides. If there is more
han one voting place in the polling precinct,
the elector may vote NJ any voting place 9es-
isDated on the registration certihcate Ihe
Boards must designate In the registration
certificate the voting place In the polling pre-
rinct at which the eIector is to vote. III tnere
IS more than one voting place in the poliing
precincts the Boards shall designate on the
certificate the voting place selected by the
Old certificates OF registration are void. EV-
ary man who may desire to exercise the rlght
20 vote must apply for Registration.
j. d. CARWILE,
S. s. BOLES,
w. a. LANIER.
Roard of Supervisors of Registration.