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Old Certificates Of Registration
are Void Everybody Must
Register.

The Books Of Registration viii be 0pensd
on the First Monday In December nsxt
and kept Open for Three Successive
Days for the Registration Of Voters
Entitled to Registration untsr tina Con-
stitution-Por the Information Of the
People Attention is Called to the rol-
foling Provisions Of the Ney Law, Ap-6
proved the Fifth Day Of March, 1898.
THE BOOKS OF REGISTRATIONS SHALL
i be opened by the Boards on the nrst'
Monday In April 1895, at the Court House in
each County, and kept open for at least six
again at the Court House on the first MONDAYS
In June. July, August and September, a. D..
1895, and Kept open continually fOr at least
one week IN each ofsaid months. they shall
ton in 1895. After general election In 1885, the
Books OF Registration shall be opeued on the
first Monday Of each month at the Court
In each month until thirty days before the
election in 1895, when they shall be closed uu-
I'll the said general election shall have taken
place. The Offices and books must be kept
open from 8 O'Clock in the forenoon until b
o'clock in the afternoon.
The Board OF Registration is the Judge Of
the qualifications OF all applicants Tor regis
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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 d has IN not been convicted Of burglary. ar:
son, obtaining goods or money under false
pretenses, perjury, forgery. robbery, bribery,
adultery, wife beating, housebreaking, receiy-
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
yf organized churches and teachers OF public
schools, and they after Six months Yesidence
In the state,l resident IN the County iof ,. SIX
months, and who can read any Section In the
Constitution OF 1895, or can understand and
explain any section Of said Constitution
or officers shall be entitled to registration and
become elector upon application ior sucn
registration. II any person has been convict
ed OF any pr the crimes above-mentioned.
pardon Of the Governor removes the disqual.
ihcation. Isl
In case any minor who will become twenty
one years Of age after the closing OF the Books
Of Keglstratration ana before i6.s the eieGt1e
application under oath showing he is qualf-
hed to register, the Boards shall register such
applicant before the closing Of the books.
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 Sc
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 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 ihhabitants, or ward
of cities OF more than FIVE thousand inhabf-
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 TO 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.
Old certificates OF registration are void. Ev-
cry man who may desire to exercise the right
to vote must apply for Registration.
J. d. CARWILE,
8. &. BOLES,
w. A. LANIER.
Board of Supervisors of Registration.