The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1898-04-02

birth, who shall have been naturalized prior
to the Ist day of January. 1898, shall be
denied the right to register and vote in this
state by reason of his failure to possess the
educational or property qualification pre-
scribed by this constitution; provided, he
shall have resided in this state for FIVE years
next preceding the date at which he shan
apply for registrations; and shall have re-
eis,ered in accordance with the terms of this
article prior to Sept. I, 1898. and no person
shall be entitled to register under this Sec
ton after said date.
Every person claiming the benefit OF
this section shall make application to the
proper registration officer, or his deputy
for registration, and he shall make oath
before such registration officer, or his
deputy, in the form following, viz: 1 am
a citizen of the United States and of this
State, over the age of FL years; 1 have re-
sided in this State for FIVE years next pre-
ceeding this date. was on the -- day
of entitled to vote under the constitu-
ton or statutes of the State of wherein
I then resided Tor am the son, or grandson)
o., who was on the -- day OF --
entitled to vote under the constitution or
statutes of the State Of, wherein he
then resided, and desire to avail myself
of the privileges conferred by section OF
article I of the constitution OF this State
A separate registration Of voters applying
under this section shall be made by the
registration officer of each parish, and for
this purpose the registration officer of every
parish shall keep his Office open daily,
Sundays and legal holidays excepted, from
May +, 1905, until Aug. 81, 1898, both in
cluded, during the hours prescribed by act
No. 50 of the general assembly of 1896.
In every parish, except the parish OF Or
leans, he shall keep his Office at the court
house, at least during the months OF May,
June and August, and, during the month or
July, he shall keep it for at least one day
at or near each polling place, giving thirty
days notice thereof by publication.
The registration of voters under this
section shall close on the 31st day of Au-
gust, 1903, and Immediately thereafter the
registration officer of each parish Shall
make a sworn copy, in duplicate, OF the
list of persons under this section, showing
in detail whether the applicant registered
as voter of 1867 prior thereto, or rs
the son of such voter, and or as grandson
of such voter, and deposit one of said
duplicates in the Office of the secretary of
State, to be by HIM recorded and preserved
as a part of the permanent records OF his
office. and the other of said duplicates shall
bv him be filed in the Office of the clerk
t,f the district court of the parish, aud in
the parish of Orleans, in the Office of the
recorder of mortgages, there to remain
permanent record.
All persons whose names appear on SAID
registration lists shall be admitted to reg
lister for all elections in this State without
nossessiup the educational property
qualification prescribed 10y this constitution,
unless otherwise disqualified. and all persons
who do not by personal application claim
exemption from tho provisions of sections )
and 4 of this article before Sept. I, 1898,
shall &c forever denied TIL: right to do SO.
The legislature shall, at its first session,
after the adoption of this constitution, pro-
vide the manner in which persons whose
names appear upon said registration lists
shalt hereafter register, which mode may
may be different from that required by
persons registering under the other
Sc ctions of this article, aud shall also
provide a remedy whereby subsequently to
the close of said registration On Aug. 81,
1908, the names of any persons who may
have obtained registration under this section
by false statements of fact or other fraud,
may by appropriate proceedings be stricken
from said roll.
See. 6, No person less than 60 years of
age shall be permitted to vote at any
election in this State, who shall not in adj
diti On to the qualifications above provided,
have paid or before the syst day of De
cen,ber, Of each year, for the two years
preceding the year in which he offers to
vote, a poll tax of 81 per annum, to be
used exclusively in aid of public schools OF
the parish in which such tax has been col
lected, which tax is hereby imposed on
every male resident of this State between
the ages of FL and 60 years. Poll taxes
shall be lien only upon assessed property,
and no process shall issue to enforce the
collection of same except against assessed
property.
Every person shall before being allowed
to vote exhibit TO the commissioners of
election his poll tax receipts for two years,