Milford chronicle., 1924-08-08
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT

IAN ACT PROPOSING AN AMEND
MENT TO ARTICLE V OF THE CON
STITUTION OF THE STATE OF DEL,
AWARE, RELATING TO REGISTRA
| TION OF VOTERS.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE SENATE
AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATTV
OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE M
! GENERAL ASSEMBLY MET; 1.-TWO.
| THIRDS OF ALL THE MEMBERS
ELECTED TO EACH HOUSE AGREE.
ING THERETO):
SECTION /. That Article V of the
Constitution of the State Of Delaware
| be amended by striking out all of Sec
tion OF said Article, and by inserting
in lieu thereof a new Section 4, in the
following language, viz:
SECTION 4. The General Assembly
shall enact uniform laws for the regis
| tration Of voters in this State entitled
to vote under this Article, which regis
trat1on Shall be conclusive evidence to
the election officers of the right of ev-
cry person so registered to vote at any
General Election while his or her name
shall remain on the list of registered
voters, and who is not at the time dis
qualified under the provisions of Sec
ton Of this Article; and no person
whose name does not at that time ap-
pear in said list of registered voters.
There shall be at least two registra-
tlon days in period commencing not
4AAO4 NAlctl OllG nuuQIGQ ana TWENTY
days, nor less than sixty days before
and ending not more than twenty days,
nor less than ten days before, each Gen
eral Election, on which registration
days persons whose names are not on
the. list of registered voters established
by law for such election, may apply for
registration, and on which registration
days applications may be made to strike
from the said registration list names of
persons on said list who are not eligible
to vote at such election; provided, how
ever, that such registration may be cor
rected as hereinafter provided at any
time. prior to the day of holding the
election.
From the decision of the registra-
tion officers granting or refusing regis
tration, or striking or refusing to strike |
a name or names from the registration
list, any person interested, or any reg
lstration officer, may appeal to the res |
ldent Associate Judge of the County, or
in case of his disability or absence from |
the County, to any Judge entitled to !
sit in the Supreme Court, whose deter |
minatiOn shall be final; and he shall |
have power to order any name improp-
erly omitted from the said registry to
be placed thereon, and any name i'm
properly appearing on the said registry
to be striken therefrom, and any name
on the said registry, in any
manner incorrect, to be corrected, and |
to make and enforce all necessary or
1ers in the premises for the correction
If the said registry. Registration shall
be a prerequisite for voting only at
general elections, at which Representa-
ives to the General Assembly shall be
chosen, unless the General Assembly
shall otherwise provide by law.
1.-THE existing laws in reference to the
registration Of voters so far as consist
mt with the provisions of this Article,
hall continue in force until the Gener-
i Assembly shall otherwise provide"
JOSHUA DANFORTH BUSH,
President Of the Senate.
SAMUEL N. CULVER,
Speaker Of the House.
Approved February 13, 1928.
WIN. D. DENNEY,
Governor.
I, A. R. Benson, Secretary of State of
he State of Delaware, do hereby certi-
Y that the above and foregoing is a
rue and correct copy of Senate Bill No. |
entitled IAN Act proposing an amend
nent to Article V Of the Constitution of
he State of Delaware, relating to reg
stration of voters" as the same ap- 4
ears on the enrolled bill filed in the Of
zee of the Secretary of State and ap-
923, which said Bill proposing such
to the Constitution of this
tate is published in accordance with
he requirements of the Constitution OF
he State.
hereunto set my hand
::,:s,:;,:s,::,::,:s and official seal at Dover,
e this twenty eighth day
SEAL e of July, in the year Of
e our Lord one thousand
:,::ts,:,:S:t::e nine hundred and twen-
ty-four.
A. r. BENSON,
lat Secretary of State.