ELECTIONS. 107

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 resi-
dence," the period by day, month or year stated by the appli-
cant, (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 natural-
ized. 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. (1) Under the column
"date of application," the month, day and year when the appli-
cant presented himself, (n) After the answers of the appli-
cant 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 pre-
ceding registration books, for the purpose of comparison and
assistance in identification, and if any one shall apply for
registration who appears in such former registry as disquali-
fied, his name shall be entered in the new registers, but he shall
be marked "disqualified," unless such grounds of disqualifica-
tion shall have been removed. At the end of the day's registry
said officers shall compare the two pegisters 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