The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-05-07
REGISTRATION OF
CITY ELECTORS
sILL PREPARED PROVIDING FoF
REGISTRATION OF VOTERS
IN CITY FOR FUTURE
SELECTIONS.


At recent meeting Of the Munich
cipal owneshsp League COMMITTEES
on legislation wss appointed and Judge
II. Emmet Wolfe Of that committee has
prepared the following bin to be intro
duced in the present legislature:
a BILL
To be entitled an Act % provide fol
the Registration of all legally Quail
fed Voters in the City OF Pensacola,
Florida and 10 define the Qualifica
tons of such voters.
Be it enacted by the Legislature d
the State of Florida:
Section 1. Any person who shall
posses The qualifications requisite
TO an elector at general state elec'
lions and shall have resided In the
city of Pensacola six months preced
ing any municipal election held in
said city and who shall have. not less
than thirty days before said election,
paid his capitasion or poll taxes as,
sessed for the two years preceding
such election, II liable for such tax,
and who shall have been registered
in the municipal registration lists as
provided in. this Act, shall be a quail
fled elector OF said city az all munich
pal elections.
Sec. q The Council of said City
shall, by a majority vote elect regis
tration officer for said city at least
sixty days prior to tae date of any
municipal election. commencing in the
year A. d. 1907, and each year L
which municipal election is held
thereafter The compensation OF such
registration officer shall be fixed by the
city council, and before entering upon
his Duties, said registration officer
snail subscribe 70 an oath that he viii
faithfully and impartially discharge
the duties Of registration officer for
such city. Said registration officer
shall register all persons applying TO
him for that purpose who shall hav>
become OF age or otherwise qualified
to vote since the last general election
and are otherwise qualified as cleo
tors under the provisions of this Act.
Such registration officer shall open
bis Office at some convenient place in
said city at least thirty days before
such city election and shall keep sucn
office open every day from 8 o'clock
a. m. until II N. ana from 2 p. N. to
D. m for ten consecutive days; due
notice being given by publication OF
sucn place of registration and the
date and hours. Each person apply
ing to register shall take the follow
ing oath, to be administered by the
registration officer: Il do solemnly
swear that / am boni-hde resident
of the city Of Pensacola, and possess
all the qualifications of an electOr CT
said city" Any. person taking such
oath, VINO shall swear falsely. shall
be guilty of perjury. The name Of
each person so registered shall be en-
tered in book for that purpose, Civ
ing also under proper headings, mis-
age, color and residence and occupa-
ton, the list for each election dictrict
being kept separate. Immediately
upon closing the registration such
books snail be turned over TO the city
council Said city council shall have
free access TO the registration books
Of the county Of Escambia, with au-
thority to make or have made, copies
Of same, so far as they include the
election districts in said city, and
from the same, together WITH the reg
istration of the city registration off,
Ger, the city council shall have pre-
pared list, in alphabetical order, by
election districts, OF the qualified elee.
tors authorized 10 vote at the next en-
suing municipal election. emitting from
SUCH list the names of all persons woo
have died or removed from said city,
or are disqualified to vote by reason
of failure to pay poll taxes, or other
wise; and the said city council shall
publish said list one time in one
newspaper published In said city, at
least ten days before the day of such
city election, and with such publica-
ton give notice OF q certain place
within said city, and time seven
days before said election, where said
council will meet to restore any name
or names to such registration lists
which may have been improperly
stricken or omitted therefrom; and
at such time and place, said city coun-
ell shall meet for that purpose. and
shall restore to such list any name o.
names shown TO have been improperly
stricken or omitted from such regis
tration lists
In case the name of an elector ap-
pears in an election district in which
he does not reside, tne registration oT-
ficer shall upon application transfer
the same to the proper election dis
trict
The registration, so revised and
completed, shall constitute the list OF
registered voters entitled to vote at
the next ensuing municipal election,
and said registration lists shall be
kept at the city hall under regulations
prescribed by the city council and
shall be open to public inspection the
day Of the election
Sec. 3. The Tax Collector Of Es-
Gambia county shall furnish sthe sal !
city council at least twenty days be
fore the day OF the city election, a
list Of all persons who have paid their
capiration or poll taxes thirty. days
prior to such municipal election, for
the two years pFecedingSIte year n
which such municipal election is held
and the city council Shall reasonably
compensate the said Tax Collector foY
such information.
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