The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1918-07-26
REGISTRATION NOTICE
NOTE IMPORTANT CHANGE IN
REGISTRATION LAWS
To The Qualified Electors of the
Township of Paw Paw

Township of Paw Paw
COUNTY OF VAN BUREN,
STATE OF MICHIGAN
Notice is hereby given that in con-
formity with Act 126, Public Acts of
1917, /, the undersigned Township
Clerk, will, upon any day except Sun
day and legal holiday, or the day Of
any regular or special election or
official primary election, receive for
registration the name of any legal
voter in said township not already
registered, who may apply to me per-
sOnally for such registration, except
that | can receive no names for regis
tration during the time intervening
between the second Saturday before
any general or special election or
official primary election and the day
of such election.
AUGUST II, 191S-LAST DAY FOR
GENERAL REGISTRATION FOR
PRIMARY AUGUST u.
All electors not already registered
and intending to vote at said Election
should make personal application to
me on or before the 18th, day Of
August, A. ID. 1918.
| Notice is further hereby given that
| will be at F. V. Hodges store where
you will review the registration and
register qualified electors who may
apply therefor.
AUGUST 3, AND AUGUST 10, 1918
From 8 o'clock A. M. until 8 o'clock
P. M. on each said day for the pur-
pose of reviewing the registration
and registering such of the qualified
electors in said township as shall
appear and apply herefor.---------
! The name of no person but an
actual resident of the precinct at the
time of registration, and entitled
under the constitution, if remaining
such resident, to vote at the next
election shall be entered in the regis
tration book.
REGISTRATION OF
/ ABSENTEE BY OATH
If any person whose name is not
registered shall offer and claim the
right to vote at any election, and
shall, under oath, state that he is a
resident of such precinct, and has re-
sided in the township twenty days
next preceding such election, desig-
mating particularly the place of his
res dence, and that he possesses the
other qualifications of an elector
under the constitution; and that,
owing to the sickness or bodily in
trinity of himself, or of some MEM
Der of his family or owing to his
absence from the township on public
business or his own business, and
without intent to avoid or delay his
registration, he was unable to make
application for registration on the
last day provided by law for the
registering of electors preceding such
election. then the name of such per-
son shall be registered, and he shall
then be permitted to vote at such
election. If such applicant shall, in
said matter, wilfully make any false
statement, he shall be deemed guilty
of perjury, and, upon conviction, be
subject to the pains and penalties
thereof.
PROVISION IN CASE OF RE-
MOVAL TO ANOTHER PRECINCT
Any registered and qualified voter
who has removed from one election
precinct of a township to another
election precinct of the same town
ship shall have the right Or any
day previous to election day,
on application to the Township Clerk
to have his name transferred from
the registration book to the precinct
from which he has removed to the
registration book of the precinct in
which he then resides. Such elector
shall have the right to have such
transfer made on election day by
obtaining from the Board of Inspect
,ors Of election of the precinct from
which he has removed a certificate of
transfer and presenting the said
certificate to the Board of Election
Inspectors of the precinct in which
he then resides.
WOMEN ELECTORS-The names of
all qualified Women Electors not al
ready appearing on the registration
list will be registered, provided per-
sonal application is made in conform
ity with the foregoing provisions.
. Dated, July 25th, 1918.
' F. v. Hodges, Township Clerk
,NOTE-The provisions of Sec. of
the general primary law are no long
err in effect, having been superseded
by said Act 1875, Public Acts of 1917
above referred to.