The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-04-30
TUESDAY. APRIL 80. 1907.
No education is complete that does
not teach how to live contentedIy and
to economlze nerve energy.-Mary
Roberts Smith.
A Warning to Voters.

Attorney General Anderson has made
public the following statement:
ANY male citizen of the State who on
or before the 9Th day OF May, 1907, shall
have paid his State poll-taX for the
year 1906 for the year 1905 and for the
year 1904, or for such of said years
as he may have been assessable with
such taxes, andswho Is otherwise quail
fled by residence. etc. will be cnti-
tied to vote in the general election
to be held on Tuesday, the 9Th of No
vember. 1907; and unless he be vet.
eran OF the Civil War, he must have
paid all of such by or before the 5th
day of Mag, 1907"
Citizens who are not qualified to vote
in the fall elections will not be quail
fed to vote in the primary. Delin-
quents who fail to pay their poll
taxes on or before May 9TH cannot
vote either in the primary or in the
regular election.
The Attorney General has recently
called attention TO another matter in
this connection. which is of vital i'm
portance to voters. After quoting the
act of March 10. 1904. providing for
the posting of lists of voters who have
paid their poll-taxes, he says that the
law unquestionably requires each
treasurer to make up one complete
list, at least five months before each
regular election, OF all voters who
have paid their capitation taxes pay
able by them three years next pre-
ceding that in which the election is
held. The requirements OF the law
viii not be satisfied. If the treasurer
shall make up three separate and dis
tinct lists, one for each of the three
preceding years. Any person whose
name shall be omitted from such ccrti-
fled list may, after five days written
notice to the treasurer, apply to the
Circuit Court of his county, or the
Corporation Court of his city, or to
the judge in vacation. to have his
name entered thereon, within thirty
days after the list has been posted.
Any voter not exempt from the pay
ment of the capitation tax as pre-
requisite to the right to vote, whose
name may be omitted from the list,
can only supply such omission by APP
plying to the court. If citizen fails
to avail himself of this remedy he
will thereby beia dcprived OF the right
TO vote at the. election held after such
lists are made up, filed and posted.
He may have paid his poll-taxes. and
may exhibit his tax receipts at the
polls, but if his name does not APP
pear on the list the judges cannot
allow him TO vote.
The only exception is that in any
case where q voter is transferred from
one city or county to another he may
vote on the certificate OF the treas
urer OF the county or city from which
he was transferred that all his poll
taxes have been paid according to
law.
This is a timely notice to clerks.
treasurers, sheriffs and serseants, and
especially to voters. If the officers
named fail TO discharge their duties
as outlined in the act cited they Will
subject themselves to a fine of not less
than $50. Citizens who fail TO comply
Will lose their vote. Every voter
should see to 1t not only that his taxes
are paid, but that his name is on the
list.
y Don't neglect your duty and then
complain of the judges of election. 1t
viii do no good TO produce your tax
receipts and make threats. II your
name is not on the list. you cannot
vote. That's the law