The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-04-01

Inc compensation Of the Registry
Agent shall be four (4) dollars per
day and all proceedings of said Reg
lstry Agent shall be open to public
inspection.
Section 2. When any person shall
apply to have his or her name enter
ed upon the list of any of the wards
of the said city, and the said agent
is in doubt as to his or her qualifca-
lions, he shall require the applicant
to answer on oath or affirmation the
following questions, together with
such other pertinent questions as
said agent may deem proper to pro-
pound for the purpose of ascertain
ing the truth of such applicants
qualifications:
i. Are you a citizen of the Unit
ed States?
come twenty-one years of age on this,
day next preceding the next ensu-
ing special election?
3. On the day next preceding the
next ensuing special election, will
you have actually resided within the
state one year, in the city six
months, and in the ward where you
now reside, thirty days?
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5. Have you resided in my other
ward in this city, in any other name,
or In the name you now register in?
3. Are you a taxpayer upon prop
erty within the city?
The Registry Agent may also ex-
anime any other person or persons
touching the qualifications of any
applicant, and if satisfied of the
qualifications of any such applicant
from the statements sworn to by
either the applicant or any other per-
son, he shall enter such applicants
name upon the list of the ward
wherein such applicant resides, and
note the fact of his having been
sworn as to his qualifications to reg
lister.
Section 3. At all special elections
at which any question is to be sub
mitted to the taxpayers only of said
city, all persons, without regard to
sex, who are citizens of the United
States, who have resided within the
state one year, and in the city six
months, and in the ward thirty days,
and who are or will be twenty-one
years of age or over, on the day next
preceding such election, and who
pays taxes as defined in Sections 468
and 400 of the Political code of the
State of Montana, 1907, upon prop
erty in the City of Wolf Point, Mon
tana, are qualified electors at such
elections and none others.
Section 4. Hereafter, no person
shall vote at any special election at
which taxpayers of the city only are
entitled to vote, held in pursuance
of the laws of the State of Montana,
and the ordinances of the City of
Wolf Point, Montana, within and for
said City, unless he or she shall have
been registered in accordance with
the provisions of this ordinance, and
when any person shall offer to vote
at IN such special election, in and
for said city, held in pursuance to
the ordinances thereof, or the NUM-
cipal laws of the State of Montana,
the judges shall examine the regis
list of such ward, and if the name
of such person be found thereon they
shall check such name and deposit
his or her ballot and enter his or her
name upon the poll book.
Section 5. Any registry agent
who shall knowingly cause or permit
the name of any person not qualified
and entitled to register, and any per-
who shall, by swearing falsely,
cause or permit the name of any
person not a qualified voter, to be
upon any such list, shall, up
on conviction thereof, be punished
by a fine of not less than fifty dollars
nor more than one hundred dollars
and costs of prosecution.
Section 6. All acts or parts of
in conflict with the provisions
this Ordinance are hereby repeal
ed.
Section Z. That the health and
of the people of the City of
Wolf Point, Montana, demand the
passage of this ordinance.
and thereby an emergency exists.
That this Ordinance shall take effect
and be in full force from and after
its passage and approval.
Passed by the Council of the City
of Wolf Point, and approved by the
Mayor thereof, this 10Th day of
April, A. D., 1918.
(Signed) JOS. Klnkhammer,
Mayor.