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252 ELECTIONS. [ART. XXXIII
description as may be sufficient for identification. (B) Under the
column "name" the name of the applicant, writing the surname 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 fact shall be. (E) Under
the column "color" the words "white" or "colored" as the case may be.
(F) Under the sub-divisions of the general column, "terms of resi-
dence," 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 natural-
ized, 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 the 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 appli-
cant to the questions under the heads of each and all of the above men-
tioned columns have been properly entered by the officers in his pres-
ence 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 "cannot 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 registration
books, for the purpose of comparison and assistance in identification,
and if anyone shall apply for registration who appeared in such former
registry as disqualified, his name shall be entered in the new register,
but he shall be marked "disqualified," unless such grounds of disquali-
fication 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 registers shall
then sign his name or initials immediately under the last name regis-
tered under each letter in the book kept by him, so that no new name
can be added without discovery. The said Board of Registry shall keep,
on blanks to be provided for that purpose by the Board of Supervisors
of Elections, an alphabetical list of names, addresses and color of all
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