The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-22

ted on at the general election to be opposed by republican candidates.
 since the last registration or who have been residents of the state the required length of time since the last registration are expected to be added to this voting strength at the regular registra- tions which will be held throughout the county beginning January and continuing until March 31, inclusive. Under the law only those persons who have never registered In Jeffer- son county will be required to reg ister at these sittings of the board of registrars. All persons who have once registered in Jefferson county are exempt from further registra- tion as long as they remain residents of the county.
 Requires Two Years in State
 For the registration of persons who have not heretofore registered in the county the law requires that they shall have been residents of the state two years and the county one year at the date of registration. Persons who will be 21 years of age on or before the date of the next general election are also permitted
  mary preceding the election of the party with which they are affiliated. Under this law, persons who will be of age on or before the date or the general election next fall Will be permitted to register and vote in the democratic primary next August if members of that party, even though they have not reached their majority at that time.
 Persons qualified to register must register either in the precincts where they vote or at the courthouse anu are not allowed to register in other precincts. They can either register in their home precinct on the dates the board of registrars visits that pre- cinct or from any precinct by going to inc courthouse when the board sits there.
 The tour of registration sittings by the board of registrars will begin January 2. The board will sit at the county courthouse January lo to 20 inclusive and again from February IA to March S1 inclusive, on which latter date the books will be closed for the year. The board will sit in Bessemer at the courthouse there January 21 to 26 inclusive. The re- mainder of the boards schedule will be OCCuQleu III SllllH6 III biAc precincts throughout the county.
 Must Pay Tax
 Registration without the payment of poll taxes by persons liable for the tax does not entitle the registrant to vote. Persons who have become delinquent in the payment of poll taxes and are therefore not entitled to vote, although registered, may e1t1aliffad voters hX payments of poll taxes covering the years during which they were delin- quent. Persons who have come of age or who have been residents of the state more than two years, but who have not paid poll taxes, are re- ouired before their names can be placed on the list of qualified voters to pay poll taxes from the time they became 21 or moved into the state.
 Many women, according to the tax collector, are paying taxes for cur rent years and emitting payment of the 1920 tax under the impression that because they were allowed to vote in the presidential election of that year without payment of the tax that they are not liable for 1t. This is a mistake. he says. and all women over 21 and under 45 years of age who have not paid the 1920 tax must do so or they will be barred from vot- ing in the elections this year. They were allowed to vote at the time without payment of the tax, he says. because the federal suffrage amend ment was not passed until after the time for payment of poll taxes for that year had expired and were sim ply given credit for the tax and not exempted from its payment.
 Bond Issue Ur
 In addition to the democratic pri- mary and the general election there will be a special election January 30 at which time voters of the entire state will pass on the $25.oo0, 900 road bond issue for the state, the port of Mobile amendment and the question of exempting former service men and women who participated in the late war with Germany from payment of poll taxes until 1923. Eligibility to vote in these elections. 1t Is stated, will have no dependence on whether or not the voter has paid his poll taxes for the current year as the tax Is not delinquent until after the cleo tion date. Those now qualified to vote even though by failure to pay the current years tax. they become disqualified to vote in the primary and future elections in 1922 will be allowed to vote in the special elec- tion.
 Under the same ruling. it is stated, those not now qualified to vote but who become qualified by payment of poll taxes before the date of the spe- cial election will not be allowed to participate in it as the date of quail fication is from the date of deln- quency of the poll taxes, which Is February 2. several days after the special election. In addition to the general amendments voters of Jeffer- son county will be called up to pass on the reissuance of sS.000,000 worth of county road improvement bonds carrying 6 per cent interest, this sum being the unsold portion of the origi- nal $5,000.000 issue authorized in 1920 at a special election and which have | not been sold because of bond market conditions.
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