The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-12-14

Be sure and cut out Wat
son, Parker e Reese Co. S ad
today for ready reference.
TO REREG|STER
THE ELECTORS
OF COUNTY
WORK WILL START FIRST MON
DAY IN JANuARY-cITY AND
s COUNTY PRECINCT REcIsTRA-
TIoN OFFICERS WILL BE NAMED
IN FEW DAYS.

Naming his party affiliation and at
| taching his signature to the official
1 register OF electors will be among the
requirements demanded of each voter
when he applies for registration under
q new Law passed by the last legisIa-
/ ture which provides that every voter
| in Escambia and other counties in the
state shall register every two years.
The work Of registering the voters in
Escauabta county will start on the first
Monday in January, and Registration
Officer Frank Maura said yesterday
that he win within the next few days
name the deputy precinct registration
officers. The city deputies will be en-
ployed for sixty days and the county
deputies thirty days, all of them to re-
ceive n per day, according to Regis
tration Offcer Maura-
The new law says that the county
registration books for each election dis
trict shall be open on each week day
from a. m, to IL m. and from ..
m. to p. m, and one night each week
until 10 O'Clock, at some convenient
place in each election district in each
county from the first Monday in Janu-
airy, 1914. to the first Monday in March,
1914, and biennially thereafter from
the first Monday in February to the
first Monday in March for the regis
tration of all persons who are legally
qualified to register. Each district reg
tstration officer shall post notice in at
least three public places within his
CtCCI1OH ulSlI1CIr SLAIlnk the pldCG ana
the building where he will have open
the registration books
NO person, unless exempt under the
provisions of law relating to general
a primary election who shall have fail
ed to pay at least on or before the
second Saturday in the month preced-
ing the day of such election his poll
taxes for two years next preceding the
year in which such primary election
shall be held. Nor shall any person
be permitted TO vote at any such cleo
ton who shall not have registered dur
ing the period the registration books
are required TO be kept open next pre-
ceding the day of said election.
The following oath will be printed
in each registration book: IT, having
been first duly sworn. say, upon oath,
that the statement here entered oppo-
site my name, as to my qualifications
as an elector, are true" The super
visor of registration of each county has
the power to appoint as many depu-
ties as he may deem necessary or adj
vsiable.
The supervisor of registration shall
inquire of each person, under oath, who
applies for the purpose OF being reg
istered, when necessary, and enter the
son in the general county register in
the division set for the precinct in
which such person resides:
/. His registration number.
2. The date of his resignation.
8. His full name.
A. His political Affiliations.
). Leave a blank space in which the
inspector of election shall enter in
the precinct register the poll tax mum
Der of each elector when he has voted.
g. His business or occupation.
Z. His age in years.
s. His color.
3. The state or county of his nativ-
ity.
10 If naturaIized, the time, place and
court Of naturalization or declaration
as evidenced by the legal proof there
Of. exhibited by such person.
IL His postoffice address at the time
of his registering, and, in cities and
towns having streets, by specifying the
other location of or dwelling place of
such person, with the number of such
dwelling, If the same has q number:
II not, then with such description of
the place as can be readily ascertain
ed and identified.
u The fact whether or not he is
able to write his name and mark his |
ballot and, If he cannot do both. then |
the nature of such disability must be |
entered
loving his oath, sign his name in the |
presence OF the supervisor of registra- |
ton. in the general register upon the |
Same line where the preceding infor- I
shall then sign his own name upon the
same line. and add any remarks re-
uuired or appropriate thereto, TOR the Il
OF the inspectors of cleo
ton.
arrived here from Tallahassee. but /
Registration Officer Maura says he ex-
poets they gill reach here within a few
days.