Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-08-22
Qualification Of Electors and
Registration Of Voters.
APROCLAMATI0N
By His Excellency, Iloke Smith, Gov
ornor
Executive Department.
Atlanta, Ca, August l, 1908.

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this State as set forth in an Act ap-
proved August LIST, 1908. to wit:
An Act to amend the Constitution
of the State OF Georgia by repeating
| section l of article 2 of the Constltu-
/ ton of this State and inserting in
| lieu thereof a new section, consisting
of nine paragraphs, prescribing the
qualifications for electors; providing
! for the registration of voters, and for
other purposes.
Section /. Be it enacted by the
General Assembly of the State of
. Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by
! the authority 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and the same is, hereby repealed, and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 1phs, be inserted in said
article in III thereof:
| Paragral l. 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 a citizen of the United
! States, tWenty-one years old or up
wards, not Iaboring 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. g. 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, except
when such elections are held within
six months from the expiration OF the
time fixed by law for the payment OF
7 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 2 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 oc'
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.
1. All persons who have honorably
served in the land or naval forces OF
the United States in the Revolution.
arv war, or in the war of 1912, or IN
the war 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 or naval forces Of the Con
federate States, or Of the State OF
Georgia in the war between the
States, or
9. Ali persons lawfully descended
from those embraced i'll the classes
enumerated in the subdivision next
above, or
8. All persons who are Of good
character, and understand the duties
and obligations Of citizenship under
q Republican form of government, OF
d. All persons who can correctly
read in 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 when read to them
bv any one of the registrars, and all
persons who solely, because OF phys
teal disability are unable 10 comply
with the above requirements, but who
can understand and give a reason
able Interpretation Of any paragraph
OF the Constitution of the United
States or of this State, that may be
read to them by any one of the regis
trars; or
5. Any person who is the owner
In good faith in his own right of at
least forty acres of land situated in
this State, upon which he resides, or
is the owner in good faith in his own
right of property situated in this
State and assessed for taxation at the
value of five hundred dollars.
Par. 5. The right to register under
subdivisions one and two of para
praph four shall continue only until