Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1904-09-30
Obstacles Removed By the
Courts To Certificate
Feature.
General Registration In All In.
cOrPOrated Towns Next
Tuesday.


l ial Judge Mackoy and held tn,
new registration law to be consti
e tutional.
The opinion of the court wa
: Withdrawn after being HANDED
down, in order to give Judge Settl,
opportunity to make two addition,
: to it. These additions are to NEE
the queries put as to the number O
signatures required to the certi6
cate OF registration, and the issue
OF certificates after regular regis.
tratIon day by the County Clerk.
The court holds that all officers Of
registration must sign the certi6-
cate and that the County Clerk can
issue certificates to parties who
could not register on the egulsr
day for doing so.
This removes the only obstacle in
the way cs The law, which VIII be.
come operative at the registration
to be held next Tuesday in every
Incorporated city and town in Ken
lucky. In Christian county regis.
istration polls will be opened in
eleven districts. Hopklnsville has
hive, Pembroke two. Crofton two.
Lafayette one and Gracey one
Fairview has few voters on the
Christian county side of the town
who will probably be registered by
the Todd county officers, as they
vote at precincts several miles
away.
In Hopkinsvllle new precinct
has been formed over the river
with the voting place at the stable
opposite the Union Tabernacle.
All of the voters on that side of the
-lver vote at that place, which is
;aIled No 5. and Concord, formerly
Known as No. ), is now No. %. The
Inc dividing No. l and No. 2 has
also been changed, to relieve the
heavy vote in No. ?. The following
provisions Of tho registration law
should be borne in mind:
The following requirements are
made under the law:
The date of the registration is
he first Tuesday in October, which
5 Tuesday of mex, meek.
The officers to conduct the regis
ration will be the officers OF cleo
ion for the precincts embracing
be cities 10 which registration is
equired.
Only those persons are entitled to
egister who are over twenty -one
ears Of age, have lived in the state
'ne year, the county six months and
be precinct sixty days next pre-.
ediug the November election fol-
owing the registration. +
When a voter is entitled to regis
er the clerk of the registration will
ssue him certificate of registra.
ion, which he must preserve and
present to the officers of election
,etore he will be entitled 10 vote.
The registration places must be
.ept open from g o'clock in the
corning until 9 o'clock at night. [
Any person entitled to register, S
Who was necessarily absent from {
he city on the day of registration, !
r who was sick during SAID time,
II who was unable to attend the
lace of registration on account of
ickness OF some named member of
lis family, may have his name
laced upon the registry for the
recnct in which he lives by at.
ending the county clerks office on t
londay, Tuesday and Wednesday c
ext preceding the election and f
lakiDg affidavit to such facts. The c
ounty clerk is empowered to hear a
astlmony as to the qualifications {
any voter so seeking to register 2
nd shall determine whether or not t
e is entitled to register. g
Any person who shall cause him. e
elf to be registered, knowning that
c is not lawfully entitled to regis
ration, and any person who shall
id or abet in the mission of any a
said acts, shall be imprisoned q b
ne county jail not less than one nor
lore than twelve months.
The above are the principal t,
,atures of the registration law. n
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