Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1922-09-20
Published Every Wednesday.
CRossvILLE TENNESSEE, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1922
NOT REQUIRED TO REGISTER
ALL OVER THIS COUNTY
Attorney Frank M. Thompson
So Replies to Governor
A. A.Taylor.

A. A.Taylor.
The following taken from the Knox
iville Journal and Tribune relative t,
registration as a qualification for vot
ing will set at rest all controversy OF
that subject:
! Nashville, Tennessee, Sept 49, A
the request of Governor Taylor, At
torney General Frank M. Thompson
has rendered an opinion in regard tc
the act of the last legislature seeking
to extend the Dortch law to all parts
iof the state.
Gen. Thompson holds that the act
in question is merely an amendment
to Chapter "a of the first session OF
1890, and does not enlarge the scope
of the registration law in any way.
All districts where registration before
the passage of the amendment are still
without the registration requirement.
The following is the opinion:
"My dear Gov. Taylor: | have your
favor of Aug. 8, but as you doubtless
know have been sick and OUT OF the
office for a month. You say.
"'Since there is considerable con-
fusion existing i'll the minds of many
voters of the state as to the neces-
sity of registering under senate bill
2I2, as passed by the general assembly
of the State of Tennessee in 1921,
in counties and rural districts not hav-
ing the Dortch ballot at the time Of
the aforesaid bill, and in order that
there may be no question as to the
requirements under said law, | respec-
fully request you to furnish your
written opinion as to the question OF
whether or not the voters, living in
all sections of the state, are required to
register before being eligible to par
ticipate in the election of Nov. 7, 1922
"The act you mention is chapter III
of the acts of 1921, and which extends
the Dortch ballot to every part OF the
state. 1t is an amendment, therefore,
to chapter "a of the first session for
the year 1890. 1t does not attempt
to amend the act requiring the regis
tration of voters but only attempts to
amend the act prescribing the form OF
ballot and the manner of casting same.
The act, therefore, left the registration
law Just as though it never had pass
ed. In oher words, this registration
law has not been changed, and all
districts or territories wherein the
registration was not required be-
fore the passage of this act of 1921
are unaffected.
"I regret that my sickness and abb
sence in the office prevented an ear
ier reply. Yours very truly,
FRANK M. THOMPSON,
Attorney-General."
1t will be remembered that the
Oortch law specifies that all districts
having a population of 2,5oo or more
ire required to register. The popu-
alton to be regulated by the latest
ederal census.
The census of 1920 gave the Fourth
District of this county something over
800 populatio which made that sec
ion of the county subject to registra-
ion lust as the first district had been
or some years previous. Hence reg
stration will be required at the tol-
owing precincts in the
FOURTH DISTRICT: l.
Crab Orchard,
Ozone,
Flat Rock
Daysville,
Hebbertsburg.
nd at Birds Branch and Milestone, !
hould the election commissioners call
n election at those two precincts,
which they did not do in the August
lection. The following precincts are
ubiect to registration in the
FIRST DISTRICT
Crossville,
Pomona,
Pleasant Hill,
Clifty,
Creston,
Dorton.
At all other precincts in the county
oters will not be required to register,