Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-10-06
Qualification Of Electors and
Registration Of Voters.
APPROXIMATION
BY His Excellency, Hoks Smith. Gov
0rnor.
Executive Department.

amendment to the Constitution Of
this State as set forth in an Act ap-
proved August 1st, 1908, to wit:
An Act to amend the Constitution
OF the State of Georgia by repeating
SECTION / of article 2 Of the Constitu-
ton Of this State and inserting In
lieu thereof q new section. consisting
OF nine paragraphs, prescribing the
qualifications for electors; providing
for the registration of voters, and for
other purposes.
Section /. Be 1t enacted by the
General Assembly of the state Of
Georgia. and 1t is hereby enacted by
the adtnority Of the same,
that section one Of article two
Of the Constitution of this State be.
and the same is. hereby repealed, and
the following section, consisting OF
nine parag phs, be inserted in said
article in u thereof:
ParagrA /. After the year 1908
elections by the people shall be by
ballot, and only those persons shall
be allowed to vote who have been
first registered in accordance with
the requirements of law.
Par. 2. Every male, citizen Of this
State who is citizen of the United
States. twenty-one years old or up,
wards, not laboring under any Of the
disabilities named in this article, and
possessing the qualifications provid,
ed by it. shall be an elector and en-
titled to register and vote at any
election by the people; provided,
that no soldier, sailor, or marine in
the military or naval services Of the
United States shall acquire the rights
Of an elector by reason Of being sta
toned on duty in this state.
Par 3. To entitle person to reg
lister and vote at any election by the
people, he shall have resided in the
State one year next preceding the
election, and in the county in which
he offers to vote six months next pre-
ceding the election, and shall have
paid all taxes which may have been
required of him since the adoption
of the Constitution Of Georgia of 1877
that he may have had an opportunity
/ Of paying agreeably to law. Such
payment must have been made at
least six months prior to the election
at which he offers to vote, excep'
when such elections are held within
six months from the expiration Of the
time fixed by law for the payment 81
such taxes.
Par. 4. Every male citizen Of this
State shall be entitled to register as
an elector and to vote in all elections
in said State who is not disqualified
under the provisions Of section 3 OF
article 2 of this Constitution, and
who possesses the qualifications pre-.
scribed in paragraphs two and three
of this section or who will possess
them at the date Of the election &C.
curing next after his registration,
and who in addition thereto comes
within either of the classes provided
for in the five following subdivisions
Of this paragraph.
i. All persons who have honorably
served in the land or naval forces OF
the United States in the Revolution
airy war, or in the war of 1912. or in
the way with Mexico. or in any war
with the Indians or in the war be-
tween the States, or in the war with
Spain. or who honorably served In
the land OF naval forces Of the Con
federate States, or Of the State OF
Georgia In the war between the
States, or
2. All persons lawfully descended
from those embraced in the classes
enumerated In the subdivision nex'
above. or
3. All persons who are Of good
character. and understand the duties
and obligations OF citizenship under
Republican form of government. OF
4. AL persons who can correctly
read ip. the English Language any par
agraph Of the Constitution Of the
United States or Of this State and
correctly write the same in the
English language whom read to them
by any one of the registrars and al
persons who solely, because OF phys
ical disability are unable 70 comply
with the above requirements, hut whE
can understand and give a reason
able Interpretation Of any paragraph
of the Constitution Of the United
States or Of this State, that may DC
read to them by any one Of the regis
trars; or
5. Any person who is tue owner
IN good faith in his own ri ght OF a
least forty acres Of land situated II
this State, upon which he resides. Of
is the owner in good faith in his OWL
right of property, situated In tnii
State and assessed for taxation at tn'
value Of ave hundred dollars.
Par. s. The right to- register undel
subdivisions one and two OF para
praph four shall continue only unit
January LIST, 1915. But the registrar