850 ELECTIONS. [ART. 33

location of the room or rooms occupied by him shall be stated, every
floor below the level of the street or ground being designated as the
basement; the floor upon or first above such level being designated as
the first floor, and each floor above that as the second, or such other
floor as it may be. In county precincts it shall only be necessary to
give such general description as may be sufficient for identification. (b)
Under the column "name" the name of the applicant, writing the sur-
name first, and full given or Christian name after, (c) Under the
column "age," the age of the applicant. (d) Under the column
"nativity" the State, country, empire, kingdom or dominion as the facts
shall be. (e) Under the column "color" the words "white" or "colored,"
as the case may be. (f) Under the subdivisions of the general column,
"terms of residence," the period by day, month or year stated by the
applicant. (g) Under the column "naturalized," the word "yes" or
"no" or "native," as the facts may be. (h) Under the column "date
of naturalization," the date of naturalization, if naturalized. No
naturalization papers need be produced if a majority of the board are
satisfied that for three years next preceding the applicant claiming to
be naturalized has been a registered voter in this State, and has actually
voted on such previous registration; but they shall note his answers to
the questions, when and in what court he was naturalized, and also in
the column headed "remarks" where and when he was so previously
registered. (j) Under the column "court," the designation of the court
in which, if naturalized, such naturalization was had. (k) Under the
column "qualified voter," the word "yes" if the fact shall appear or be
determined by a majority of the board of registry, or the word "no,"
if such fact be not established to the satisfaction of a majority of the
board. (l) Under the column "date of application," the month, day
and year when the applicant presented himself. (n) After the answers of
the applicant to the questions under the heads of each and all of the
above-mentioned columns have been properly entered by the officers in
his presence in both registers, and not until then he shall be asked to
sign his name upon the same line under the column "signature," in each
of them, and shall sign his name, if he can do so. If, however, he
shall state his inability to do so, or declines to do so, the officers shall
make the entry "can not write," or "declines," as the case may be, in
the place for such signature. The board of registry shall be entitled to
receive from the officers having custody thereof the last preceding regis-
tration books, for the purpose of comparison and assistance in identifi-
cation, and if any one shall apply for registration who appears in such
former registry as disqualified, his name shall be entered in the new
registers, but he shall be marked "disqualified," unless such grounds of
disqualification shall have been removed. At the end of the day's
registry said officers shall compare the two registers so kept, and cause
any errors in either of them to be corrected, by aid of the entries in the
other, so as to make the same agree where there is any difference between
them. Each of the said officers having the custody of any of said regis-
ters shall then sign his name or initials immediately under the last