The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-09-03
The Registrars Must Do Their
Work During the Pres
ent Month.
LAW FIXES THE TIME
County Court Also Names a
Day in Addition to Regular
Work Of Registrars.

One Of the registration officers re-
Gently appointed by tho county court
Informed the Telegram Wednesday
afternoon OF his plan to wait until
+ October to register the voters in his
district. at which time he would be-
gin to sit for about ten days to regis
ter the voters. AS the Telegram sees
II the registration work should be in
progress now and that no registration
officer would be justified in waiting
until October 1 to begin to register
the voters Section Of the registra
ton law given below for the benefit of
Telegram readers says "and shall
have such registration completed on
or before the first day OF October" ("
That certainly does not mean that
the registration of voters shall be-
gin on October l, as 1t explicitly says
1t shall be completed on that date.
All voters should read the law as
given below. There are many in
stances where assessors registered vo-
ters this year, but that will not do for
the coming election as every one who
wants to vote this fall must be regis
tered by the registration officers and
not by the assessors. 1t will not cost
voters any thing to register and they
do not have to pay the dollar usually
paid under the old law.
The present registration law passed
last March reads as follows:
Be 1t enacted by the Legislature Of
West Virginia:
Sec. l. There shall be appointed by
the county court of each and every
Pn1IntV in fhn ufu NJ ln 10 huK "a
first day of September in each auI
every year when there is a general
election to be held, one competent
voter to be styled the registrar for
each voting prclnct in the several
counties of the state. The registrar
shall register as hereinafter provided
the male citizens who are entitled to
vote under the laws of this state.
Said registrars shall each. before en-
tering upon the discharge of their
duties take an oath to support the
constitution of the United States and
the constitution of the State of West
Virginia, and to perform the duties
ofof his office to the best Of his abll-
ity Said oath shall be filed in the
office of the clerk Of the county
court.
Sec 2. The county court shall
cause to be prepared suitable books
and blanks for the registration OF
voters and the facts required by this
act. and the clerk of the county cour:
shall distribute said books and blanks
to the registrars Of the respective vo-
ting precincts. The book aforesaid
shall be 50 arranged as to admit OF
the alphabetical classification of the
names of voters and ruled in parallel
columns on which shall be entered
first the name of the person register
ed: second, age; third the place OF
his birth; fourth. the time of his res
idencc in the precinct, district, county
and state; fifth, IL naturalized. the
date of the papers and the court by
which issued.
Sec. ). Before any registrar shall
register the name of any person as a
qualified voter he must be satisfied
of his qualification as herein pro.
vided and for this purpose he Is
hereby given authority to administer
oaths and may require the person dc.
string TO register to answer under
oath the following questions:
First-Arc you citizen OF the Uni,
ted States?
Second-Arc you native or ma.
turaliZed citizen?
If the person Offering to rcgiste!
claims to be naturalized citizen OF
the United States he shall produce
for the inspection of the officer of reg
istration. Il certificate or other cvi
dence Of his naturalization, and alsc
state under oath or affirmation tha
l, l.