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Session Laws, 1939
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HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1295

fully and truly answer all such questions as shall be put to
you touching your place of residence, name, place of birth,
your qualifications as a voter, and your right as such to reg-
ister and vote under the laws of this State. " (2) The two
officers of registration designated by the Supervisors to have
custody of the two registry books, or such of their colleagues
as such of them may respectively ask to temporarily replace
him in the discharge of his duty shall make the entries therein
required by this Article, and the questions as to qualifica-
tions shall be asked by the other officers of said Board.

(3) The name and age of every applicant shall be entered
in such registry book and all the facts of his application shall
be therein stated as herein provided, whether he be entitled
to vote or not. If it shall be determined by the Board that
he is not a qualified voter in the precinct, then an entry shall
be made in the appropriate column "No", and a line shall be
drawn in red ink through his name and through all the other
entries on the line on which his name is written, but so that
the name and said other entries shall remain legible; and if
qualified, the entry shall be made in the same column "Yes. "
(4) Only persons constitutionally qualified to vote in the pre-
cinct at the next election and personally applying for reg-
istration shall be registered as qualified voters. (5) The head-
ings to the registry books shall be so prepared that the regis-
try shall be made alphabetical, according to the surname of
each person applying, and so that the residence and post
office address of such person shall appear in the first column.
The registers shall be ruled, and one name shall be written
on each line, but no name shall be written between the lines.
The entry shall be as follows: (A) Under the column "Resi-
dence and Post-office address", the name and number of the
street, avenue or other location of the dwelling if there be
a definite number, and if there shall not be a number, or if
there shall be duplicate numbers, such clear and definite de-
scription of the place of such dwelling as shall enable it to be
readily ascertained; if there shall be more than one house at
the number given by the applicant as his place of residence,
it shall be stated in which house he resides and if there be
more than one family residing in said house, either the floor
on which he resides, or the number or location of the room or
rooms occupied by Mm shall be stated, every floor below the
level of the street or ground being designated as the base-
ment; 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 surname first, and full


 

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