Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-09-28
Register Now If
You Want to Vote

weeks-twelve days, TO be specific
The registration in the state is woe
fully below what it should be, anC
the next few days should see a rusl
to the registration headquarters
The qualifications of voter are out
lined fully and comprehensively il
the instructions to registrars ISSUED
by County Clerk Gardner:
Qualifications of Voters
7. Any citizen of the United
States of the age of 21 years ant
upwards, who shall have resided in
the state during the six months pre-.
ceding an election, is entitled to reg.
lister and vote at such election. Also
any elector who may complete hi:
residence during the period in which
the registers are closed or who may
attain the age of q years, may reg
lister during q period of 80 days next
preceding the closing of the registra-
tion for the election at which he de
sires to vote, but the clerk or regis
trar shall indorse upon the registra-
ton card in red ink these words:
Qualified to vote. ......... (month)
......... day ........ (year)
S. Foreign born persons: All per-
sons born in a foreign country OF
alien parents, no matter at what age
they came to this country, are aliens
unless the naturalization laws of the
United States have been complied
with, either by themselves after they
became u years of age, or by their
parents before they become 21 years
of age.
9. The state constitutional amend
ment passed by the people in Novem-
Der, 1914, requires that all aliens
must have become fully naturalized
before being allowed to vote in this
state. Therefore. those persons who
have only their Declaration of In
tention" commonly known as first
papers,, cannot legally register for
elections in this state. This law re-
quires that Final Citizenship Pa
pers" commonly known as second
papers), be exhibited to the registra-
tion officer before he can register
them.
10. Some confusion may result
unless registering officers are care
full in this respect. as in many of the
old forms of naturalization papers
the first papers, or Declarations, 3"
are very similar to the second or
Final papers, therefore the papers
should be carefully examined to see
that they read to show that the alien
lis admitted citizen of the United
States"
Under the former laws of Oregon,
second papers were not required;
Declaration of Intention, or first pa
pers, being sufficient. Former reg
istrations in this county do not show
which were exhibited, hence the ne
cessity of care on the part OF the
registrars in this particular.
The following will give you the
requirements, also the status Of the
families, of aliens:
|. Naturalized citizens must ex-
hibit Final" citizenship papers.
?. If the father Of an alien be-
came naturalized before he (the
child became of age, he is a natural
lied citizen, but must exhibit the
fathers papers or copy Of the same
from the court issuing them.
s. \ foreign woman married to
a citizen Of the United States is a
citizen.
1. An American woman who mar
ried foreigner takes the nationality
of her husband. and must exhibit his
papers if he becomes naturalized
citizen; at the termination OF the
marital relation, if she continues TO
reside here, she may resume her eiti-
Eenship.
5. Foreign-born unmarried women
must be naturaliZed themselves after
they become q years of age, or by
their father before they became Of
age; if married TO a foreigner who
is naturaliled, she must exhibit his
Final" papers.
{. Any foreign woman who &C
Quires citizenship by marriage to an
American retains the same after the
termination OF marital relations, If
she continues TO reside here, and un-
less she makes formal renuneiation
OF citizenship.
:. Service in the Q. S. army or
navy Of aliens does not, as is gener-
ally believed. imply citizenship, IN
less petition for final papers has been
made and papers issued. such service
eliminating only the necessity OF
First papers.
s. Proof OF filing on homestead is
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