Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-28
FAIR REGISTRARS
/. TO Be INSTRUCTED
q
5000 Copies Of Regulations to
(, Be Distributed to Women
Board Members
SET REGISTRATION DATES

Instructions for the registration OF
women electors, starting next Thurs
day. were ordered printed today by the
registration commissioners and copies
sent to all the registrars.
The forms are intended to furnish full
Information to the registrars. four of
whom will sit in each of the l3SG polling
places. on how to meet certain Difficult
tics that will arise when women make
their first appearance in the registration
process.
Five thousand copies will be printed
and posted in conspicuous places at the
division houses. and put in the hands Of
the registrars to be- referred to in case
Of necessity.
What women are permitted to reg
lister, what tax they must pay and in
formation regarding citizenship qualiti
cations. are contained in the iustruc-
tions. Upon the matter of tax pay
ment registration commissioner said
woman must present a state or county
tax receipt, or pay a poll tax of fifty
cents.
Registration books. in which the
names of the women will be set down.
will be distributed at City Hall on. Tues
day. They are called registers.
In addition to next Thursday the reg
istrars will sit on September IA and
October .. Upon any one of these
days a woman elector may register,
provided she is on the assessors lists,
which are now being made up in the
house to house canvass. Following reg
istration nothing more need be done to
vote in November.
Mail Cards to Assessors
Cards were mailed out today to all
assessors asking them TO report the ex.
act number of men and women assessed
as soon as the lists are completed OH
Wednesday.
The registration instructions follow:
Registrars must understand that this
amendment has made no change in the
existing laws. except TO strike out the
word "male" from the constitutional
provision as to the right of suffrage.
BY this amendment women are given
equal rights with men. and. in turn,
assume equal burdens and duties. Wom-
en- have just as high rights as men. but
no higher. The existing laws must be
enforced as TO them exactly as they have
been as 10 men.
'tiLenship
The constitution of Pennsylvania.
as affected by the federal amendment,
now provides:
Article WILL SeStlon l. Livery
citizen twenty ono years OF age
possessing the toiioWlhs quaHncu
tions' snail De eh'it!ed 10 'ote at al
eiectlons' SUBJECT however !" sum
laws requiring ana regulating the
registration OF electors dS lhe "eu'
eraL assemol! may enaTt
FIRST. re ,or she' snalI nave oeeh
q citizen or the Ihl'eu states d' least
one mohth; ,
second. lie or sn"' snail nave re-
slded IN 'he S'hIe Que year ,"l' nuN
ing previously oeeH QuaI'aeu tle,
tor or NATIVE OCrG C't'%pn VI we slute'
ne lor She shall haVs removed tntre-
from ana returned; .h'.l s'N LIIon.ns''
im,meu4a'tS PIe''Iins 'ne
iHlru' ne 'L S"e shoI "uNt
siueu III 'Ht ei'''Sou uls'I'' Mnerc Nv
,or she shuII ohtp 10 nooe a. leISe
tHo iIon'hS l''l"''u'"''! P'''e"'us NV
eiertlon, ,. - e
rourIn' II SN'nN ,on' iea's "
age ana upwards, ne 'or she ShalI
nave pa'u "i'"'h Nv" ;'H'H H''te VI
county 'aN; "n'" sH"'. nav u.rn
assessed at IeaS' TWO mouths anu pau
al leasI one mont" oe'o'' inv '''''
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