St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-08-26
REGISTRATION LAWS.

A Digest For Convenience
W Voters.
For the convenience Of voters the
following digest Of the registration
laws is printed:
/. In New Orleans registration
has been in operation since Jan. l,
1899. It Is now going on, with ?
subregistration Office in each ward
according 70 the registrars notice,
| published in the newspapers. The
registration for the city election
Will close Oct. 7, 1899. After that
date no one can register for the city
election. After the city election
registration will proceed regularly.
and all unregistered persons can
Register for the April 1900, State
election, ct which, in New Orleans,
all who have registered since Jan.
l, 1899 and prior to thirty days
before SAID April, 1900, election,
can vote. In New Orleans the
the main Office Of the registrar OF
| voters Is IN the Criminal District
Court building, on Tulane Avenue,
corner Of Basin street.
2. In the country parishes regis
TRITON cannot begin until Jan. l.
1900, and must end thirty days be-
fore the April election, say about
March Is, 1900. The assessor is
the registering officer. He i 70
keep his Office open for sixty days,
Sundays and legal holidays except
ed, and must close it thirty days
before the April election. The first
week and the last two weeks of this
sixty days registration he keeps
his Office 1t the courthouse, and for
the intervening tune he must have
his Office, for 1t least one day, at
or near each polling place in the
parish, and he must give constant
public notice, in the official news
paper, of the times and places Of
his several appointments for regis
tration. His Office n0urs are from
8 4. N. to / r. r., and from r. =.
to r. n. Legal holidays are Jan.
8 and Feb. 20. In case Of the as
SCISSORS sickness or inability be ap-
points deputy to act for him.
Section 81, acts 1898, p. 464.
WHO CAN REGISTER As VOTERS.
To register IS . voter the person
must be = male citizen, native or
naturalixed, twenty-one years Of
age, or to become twenty -one years
Of age 1t or before the next election,
and bona fide resident Of the state
for two years, Of the parish for one
year, and Of the voting precinct for
six months.
Removal from one precinct 70
another in the same parish after
registration will not deprive the
person of his right to vote in the
former until six months after such
removal.
Poll tax receipts are not required
to register, or to vote, It the city
election in November, 1899, or d
the State election IN April, 1900.
Besides the Qualification of age,
citizenship ana residence, above
stated, the following are necessary
qualifications:
l. Those who are able to rsad
and write.
2. Those who are unable to read
and write, but who are the owners
Of property assessed to them ut =
of not less than $500.
8. Those who being unable to
read and write, and VINO have not
sufficient property, but who have
PRIOR TO Sept. 1, 1898,
under section of article 1877 Of the
Constitution.
REQUIREMENTS NECESSARY FOR
REGISTRATION.
l. Cltlxens able to read and write
need mol be property owners.
3. The test OF ability to read and
write IL being able, without assist
ance, or suggestion, to fill up the
application blank.
s. In making out the application
blank, 1t must be entirely written,
dated and slgned by hun, in the
presence of the registering officer,
without assistance Of suggestion
from any person or from any MEM
whatever.
4 If the applicant Is unable TO
write his application in English,
ne has the right 10 write it II his
mother tongue from the direction
# an interpreter.
5 If he il unable to write 1T by
'eason of physical intirmltles, it
nay be written by the registering |
,tficer It the applicants dictation.
But the applicant must first make |
N affidavit that BY reason Of his
,hyslcal disability he is unable to
write.
PROPERTY HOLDER. /
l. lie must have assessed in his
lame property of = valuation Of 1t
east $500.
2 II his property consists Of
PERSONAL propertY-that is, stock,
'onds, furniture, horses, stock in
rade, jewelry and such ike things
he must produce his tar receipt
or this year.
3 It is not necessary that he
make written application, but he