Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1921-07-19
NEW REGISTRATION LAW.

The following is the full text of the
amendments made to the West Virginia
registration law passed by the last regu-
lar session of the legislature
An act to amend and re-enact section
ninety-eig ht-a-two section ninety-eight-a-
four and section ninety eight-a-eleven of
chapter three of Barnes code edition of one
thousand nine hundred and eighteen, in ref
erence to registration
Be it enacted by the Legislature Of West
Virginia:
eight-a-four and ninety eight-a-eleven of
chapter three Of Barnes code of West vir-
GINA, edition of one thousand nine hundred
and eighteen, be amended and re-enacted so
Section 9s-a-2. The county court shall
cause to be prepared suitable books and
blanks for the registration of voters and the
facts required by this. act. and the clerk Of
and blanks to the registrars of the respec-
tive voting precincts. The books aforesaid
shall be so arranged as to admit of the al
phabetical classification of the names of the
voters and ruled in parallel columns, on
which the registrar shall enter, first. the
number; second, the names of the persons
registered; third. color; fourth. political afil-
iaton; fifth, age; sixth, place of BIRTH sew
enth, time of residence in precinct. county
and state eighth. if naturalized. the date of
the papers and the court by which issued :
ninth, date of regis tration; tenth, place OF
residence. Any registrar violating any of
the provisions of this section shall be fined
J, not less than fifty dollars and confined in
Jail iot less than thirty days.
/ Sec. 98-a-4. Before the registrars shall
register the name of any person a quail
I fled voter. they must be satisfied of his
qualifications, or have him make and sub
! scribe the affidavit as hereinafter provided.
showing his right to register, and for the
purpose of this act they are hereby given
! authority to administer oaths and they may
| require the person desiring to register to
| answer under oath the following questions
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States
Two. Are you a native or naturalzed
citizen? If the person offering to be regis
tered claims to be naturalized citizen of
the United States he shall produce for the
inspection of the officer of registration a
certificate or other evidence of his naturali-
zation and also state, under oath, or affirma-
ton, that he is the Identical person named
therein; but the production of the certificate
shall not be required. if the person Offering
to be registered states, under oath, when
la certificate of naturalization, and that
!, against his will the same is lost. destroyed
or beyond his power to produce the same: or
if he states under oath. that, by reason of
the naturalization of his parents or one of
them. he has become citizen of the United
States, and where and when his parents
we're naturalized.
Three. Will you have resided in this
state for one year Immediately preceding the
coming election? II SO. where have you re-
sided7 Name two persons who know OF
place or places of residence.
Four Have you been absent from the
state within a year Immediately preceding
the coming election? tIf Yes. whenD
Five. When you left state did you leave
of returning for the purpose of remain
ing away?
Six. Did you. while absent, look upon or
regard this state your home?
any other stated
Eight. Will you have resided in this
county for sixty days prior to the coming
election?
Nine. When did you last come to this
county,
Ten. Are you an actual resident of this
precinct?
Eleven Are you twenty-one years OF
age,or will be such, at the coming election.
to the best of your knowledge and belief
Twelve. What is your occupation and
postoffice address?
Thirteen. What party do you affiliate
with or belong to?
No other questions should be asked the
applicant for registration, and no one except
plicant any question affecting his qualif-
cations to vote at the time such applicant is
applying to said registrars for registration.
Every person shall be registered who will
be entitled to vote at the first election oc-
curing after the registration by reason of
his arriving at twenty-one years of age be-
fore the time, or by reason of his having re-
sided for a sufficient length of time in the
qualified. (Acts one thousand nine hum
bred and eight. chapter nineteen; one thous-
and nine hundred and eleven. chapter forty
five. one thousand nine hundred and fifteen,
chapter twenty-eight; one thousand nine
hundred and sixteen, chapter sikh
Sec. 98-a-11. No person shall be allowed
to vote at any election hereafter held in this
state unless he shall have been registered as
herein provided and the commissioners of
every election shall allow only those to vote
whose names appear upon the registration
books furnished by the clerk of the county
court to them, who present a proper GER
tificate of transfer as herein provided And
no person shall be allowed to cast the ballot
of any party at any primary election here
cred a voter of that party, herein pro-
vided; and the commissioners of every pri-
mary election shall allow only those to cast
the ballot of any party participating in such
election whose names are registered vot-
ers of that particular party upon the regis
tration books furnished them to the clerk of
the county court, who present them a
proper certificate of transfer as herein pro-
vided, showing them to be voters of such
party: and every certificate of transfer for
use at primary election shall show the
name of the party to which the voter belongs
if shown by the regis books. The re-
quiremnts of this section as to voting in
primary elections shall be in addition to
those mentioned in section thirteen of chap
ter five of the acts of the legislature of the
| extraordinary session of nineteen hundred
and sixteen. Any commissioner of election
who shall wilfully violate any of the pro-
visions of this act shall be deemed guilty of
misdemeanor. and upon conviction there
| of shall be fined not less than fifty nor more
than one hundred dollars, and impris oned
in the county Jail not less than ten nor more