The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1908-10-15
AS TO REGISTRATION.
Assistant Attorney General
Clement Gives Important In
formation as to Voting Quail
fications.

fications.
In compliance with a request
0y State Democratic Chairman
Eller, Assistant Attorney Gener-
al Clement gives the following
information regarding the reg
stration and qualifications of
voters in the coming election:
mo new registration is re-
quired for the coming election.
All persons registered in the last
election can vote now without
again registering. Once on the
roll a person is always
on the said registration roll. If a
person moves from one precinct to
or from one county to an
other and desires to register in
the precinct or county to which
he has moved, he should show his
certificate that he is on the
permanent roll. If this GER
tificate has been lost or destroyed
he should make application to
the clerk of the court of the
county where he duly registered
for a duplicate certificate of
registration.
MY attention has been called
to the fact that the boards of cleo
tions of Buncombe and Mecklen-
burg have ordered a new regis
tration. This, as l understand
it, is done for purely local rea-
sons, in order to cali attention to
the grandfather clause and in
order to arrive at a concise esti-
mate of the number of voters
in said counties. l see no
reason why a county can
not order a new registration if
its board of elections so desires,
but | do not think that it can
eliminate names on the perma-
nent registration roll because the
persons do not re-register. How
ever, minors coming of age must
register, and persons who have
moved from the precinct in which
they are registered more than
four months before the election,
but if they moved their residence
from the precinct in which they
were residents within the four
months preceding the election
then they should vote in the pre-
cinct where they were register
ed; that is, if any person moves
into a new precinct withinl -four
months of the time of the cleo
ton he must go back to the pre-,
cinct from whence he moved in
order to vote. If a person moves
from one county to another with
in less than six months before
November Sd, 1908, he cannot
vote in either county.
mo person liable to poll ta1
can vote unless he paid his pol
tax by May 1st of this year fol
the preceding year and he mus
exhibit his receipt or take the
oath required of him before vot
ing. In order to vote he must
be Fl years of age; must have
been a resident of the State twC
years, of the county six months
and of the precinct four months
He must also be able to read AM
write any section of the constitu
ton in the English language t
the satisfaction Of the registrar
unless he is a lineal descendan
Of any person who could vote O.
Jauary 1st, 1867, or prior thereto
| No person who has been con
victed or who has confessed hi
guilt in open court upon an ir
dictment for any crime the pur
ishment of which is now.or ma
be imprisonment in the State
prison, or Of corruption or ma
. practice in office, unless such pei
son shall be restored to citizer
ship in the manner prescribed b
law, or any person who shall d.
ny the being of Almighty Coz
/ shall be allowed to vote. Ever
| person offering to vote shall
S at the time a legally registere
E voter.
'The residence of a marie
4 man is where his family reside
t that of a single man where
t sleeps.
s This is the last election
/ which those who cannot read al
n write can register under t
it grandfather clause, as the co
n stitution of this State limits t
Y time to December 31st, 19C
l. The clerk of the court has in
keeping the permanent roll of
d persons who have registered U
l. der the grandfather clause a
# it is highly important that eve
le man in the county who canr
# read and write shall ascertain
Y, his name appears on this perm
ID nent roll in the clerks office. /
/. persons registering under
IS grandfather clause should obt;
e. a certificate of registration. 7
le is given by the registrar a
ir should be certified to by
If clerk of the Superior Court. "
j. William H. Taft, Republic
x candidate for President, '
ia speak in Greensboro Saturd
to the closing day of the centenn
III The State Agricultural Dep;
w w ment reports the September So
ne ne of leaf tobacco at all We
aC houses to be 36, 1873, 446 pour
w Wilson led with 5, 984, 943. Gre
IlO 1,iI1o t1,oc cooool KinCtoo n