Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-10-03

The plan agreed upon by the majority
Is as follows:
Section l. Every male citizen OF Tue
United States, at least twenty-one years Oh
age, who shall have been resident Oh 'niS
State for at least two years, Of the county
or city in which be shall offer to vote at
least one year. and of the precinct In
which he shall offer to vote at least thirty
days next preceding the election at which
no shall offer to vote, who shall have been
registered as may be prescribed by law
and who shall have paid in person 10 'ne
State. at least six months prior to the eiec'
ton at which be shall offer to vote, poll
tax of one dollar and fifty cents (Sl'oO)
for the preceding year, except as herein
after provided otherwise, shall be entlIieo
to vote for members of the General AS
sembly and all officers elected by the peo'
pie; provided
He be person who has served in time
of war in the army or navy of the United
States or of the Confederate States, or OF
any State of the United States;
or,
He be person who, or whose WIFE,
shall have paid to the State taxes 1or the
wear preceding that in which he offers 10
vote. amounting to as much as one dollar
(sl) on property owned by and assessed
against 4,im or his wife;
He h. a person not embraced in either
Of the three foregoing alternatives, who'
when he offers to register, shall be able tc
Give a reasonable explanation of the gen
eral nature Of tine duties OF various ofhcers
for whom he may, at any time, under the
laws then existing, be entitled to volcano
who,if physically able, e,shall have INDICATED
his substantial attachment o,or identitca
ton with, this State, by having been regu
larly employed or engaged in a la"iu
trade, profession, business, calling, work o
service. for at least onefourth of the tim
during the year next preceding that Il
which he shall offer to vote.
And provided, further, that the provif
ion hereinbefore contained as to the pay
ment of poll-tax as prerequisite to vol
ing shall not apply to any election hel
nrior to the lst day of January, 1903, an
that no person who has served in time
war. in the army or navy of the Unite
States. or of the Confederate States, or
aov State of the United States, shall
any time be required to pay poll'tax
a prerequisite to voting
TO REMOVAL.
And provided further, that no perS0
otherwise qualified to vote, according L
the provisions of this Constitution Sha
lose his right to vote in the precinct frol
which he has removed to another precin
in the same county or city until after IL
exniration of thirty days from the time
such removal.
And provided, further, that any perso
otherwise qualified to vote according
the foregoing provisions, who shall reg
Ter after the first day of January, l9O
shall make application to register In
own handwriting in the presence OF one
the registrars, according to such form al
to be verified on oath or affirmation
such manuer as may be prescribed
law. and shall prepare and deposit
ballot, without aid from another, on su
printed form as the law shall prescrit
unless he shall be blind or otherwise pm
ically disabled; or shall be person W
has served in time of war in the army
navy of the United States, or Of any sts
of the United States, or shall be pers
who or whose wife shall have paid to t
State taxes for the year preceding that
which he offers to vote, amounting to
much as one dollar on property owned
and assessed against him or bis wife,