The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-05-06
CITY REGISTRATION
ORDINANCE

Be it ordained by the City Council
of Dawson, and it is hereby ordained
by the authority of the same, under
and by virtue of the authority vested
IN them by the charter of the city of
Dawson, that the registration lists for
each and every municipal election to
be hereafter held shall be purged
and rectified and lists of the quail
fed voters, after such purging and
rectlticatlon, be furnished to the man
ayers of each and every such cleo
ton in accordance with the follow
ing rules and regulations.
l. That there shall be appointed
by the mayor, by and with the advice
and consent of the city council of
Dawson, three registrars, to be
known collectively as the city regis
tration board, whose term of office
shall be for the calendar year in
which they are appointed. No person
shall be eligible to such appointment
who occupies any office, municipal,
county, state or federal who is not
twenty-five years of age and who has
not resided in the city of Dawson for
a period of at least three years pre-
cedlng the date of his appointment.
Each such registrar shall receive the
sum of ten dollars as compensation
for his services rendered as such reg
istrar, for each and every election,
to be paid out of the city treasury
within thirty days after the holding
of such election.
2. That said city registration
board shall meet not more than sew
en-, and not less than five days before
the holding of every municipal cleo
ton and begin work of perfecting a
true and correct list of the qualified
voters of the city of Dawson. They
shall be furnished by the city clerk
with a list of all persons registered
and such list shall be prima facie
evidence of the right of the person
whose name appears thereon to reg
lister. In any case where the regis
trars, or majority of them, question
the right of party to register
name thus appears on the list fur
nished by the city clerk such person
shall be given at least twenty-four
hours notice of that fact in writing
to be served by any city policeman
and be given an opportunity to ap-
pear before the registrars in supper
of his claim as a lawful registered
voter. The registrars shall have au-
thority, upon satisfactory proof be-
ing made to them that any person
whose name appears on said list, so
furnished by said city clerk, has died
since registering, to strike said name
therefrom and to eliminate the same
from the lists to be prepared by
them as hereinafter provided. Aftel
examining said list furnished t
them by the city clerk and hearing
such evidence as may be necessary,
as hereinbefore provided, and reach
ing their decision with reference
thereto, which shall be the Coz q.
rent opinion of not less than two
members of said board, the regis
trars shall proceed to make up lis.
to be known as registered vote
in alphabetical order, and shall fur
nish such list to the election mana
gers of said election.
3. That no person shall be allow
ed to vote in any election unless
name appears upon the lists so fur
nished and filed by said registra
with said election managers.
Be it further ordained that all or
dinances, or parts thereof, in con-
f1ict with the provisions of this ordi-
nance be and the same are hereby
repealed.
Read and unanimously adopted
an emergency ordinance at meeting
of city council of Dawson, Georgia,
this April IA, 1919.
F. NJ. McNULTY, Mayor.
R. E. Bell, City Clerk.