Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-05-31
HOW TO ANSWER
CARD QUESTIONS
Instructions Received by County
Clerk as to Manner Of Replying
to Queries ON Registration Day

County Clerk F. A. Cooper has re
ceived instructions as to how the
questions shall be answered by those
between the ages Of q and 80 on June
5 when they register. The answers
will all be written by the registrar il
ink and the regular voting places ir
each town, village or ward and the
questions with Instructions read as
follows:
1. Name in full. Age in years
This means all your names spelled
out in full.
State your age today in years only
Disregard additional months or days
Be prepared to say 49," or "25," not
"19 yrs, mos" or the like.
Il. Home address.
This means the place where you
have permanent home, not the place
where you work. Be prepared to
give the address in this way: "232
Main Street, Chicago, Cook County
Illinois," that is, give number and
name of street first, then town, then
county and state.
8. Date of birth
Write your birthday (month, day
and year, on a piece of paper before
going to the Registrar, and give the
paper to him the first thing. Example:
August 5, 1894"
If you do not remember the year
start to answer as you would if some
one asked you your birthday, as EAU
gust 5th." Then say ''on my birthday
this year I will be Cor was) --
years DID, The Registrar will then
fill in the year of birth. Many people
do not carry in mind the year they
were born. This may be obtained by
the Registrar by subtracting the age
in years on this years birthday from
1917.
q. Are you (1) natural-born citi
zen; (2) a naturaized citizen;
(3) an alien; (4) or have you de
cIared your intention to become
a citizen (specify which,?
Cd If you were born in the United
States, including Alaska and Hawaii
you are a naturaI-born citizen, no mat
ter what may have been the citizen
ship or nationality of your parents
If you were born in Porto Rico, you
are a citizen of the United States, Un
less you were born of alien parentage
If you were born abroad, you are still
a citizen Of the United States if your
father was a citizen Of the United
States at the time you were born, un
less you have expatriated yourself.
| (2) You are naturaIized citizer
if you have completed your naturaliza
ton; that is, if you have taken fina
, papers" But you are not citizen i
you have only declared your intention
to become citizen Chat is, if yol
have only "taken out first papers'O
in the latter case you are only "de
clarant."
You are also naturalized citizeI
! if, although foreign born, your fathe
or surviving parent became fully nat
uralized while you were under 21 years
of age, and if you came to the United
States under Fl.
| CD You are decIarant If, although
a citizen or subject of some foreigl
country, you have declared on oatl
before naturalization court your in
tention to become citizen of th
/ United States. Receipt from the clerl
of the court of the certified copy o
such declaration is often called "tak
!, ing out first papers" You are not
declarant if your first paper was TAX
en- out after September 26, 1906, an
| is more than years old.
(4) You are an alien if you do no
fall within one of the three classe
above mentioned.
5. Where were you born?
First name the town, then the state
then the country, as Columbus
Ohio" Vienna, Austria" paris
France" "Sofia, Bulgaria"
10. If not a citizen, Of what countr
| are you citizen or subject?
i This need be answered only b
aliens and declarants. Remembe