What a Colored Man Should Do To Vote [Decoration] To the Colored Men of Voting Age in the Southern States AS citizens of the United States, you cannot value too highly your right to vote, which is an expression of your choice of the officers who shall be placed in control of your nearest and dearest interests. You should vote at every election. In National and congressional elections, vote for the best interests of the country. In local elections, vote for the best interests of the community in which you live. * * * * * _NEVER SELL YOUR VOTE._ The Things that Qualify a Colored Man to Vote in the Southern States IN order that you may know what will be demanded of you to vote under the Constitutions and laws of the several Southern States, we give below the substantial requirements of each, to wit:-- IN Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee _YOU MUST PAY YOUR POLL TAX._ _YOU MUST REGISTER AND HOLD YOUR CERTIFICATE OF REGISTRATION._ _If you can read and write you can register._ IN Alabama, Louisiana and South Carolina _If you cannot read and write you can register if you own $300 worth of property._ IN Arkansas and Georgia _YOU MUST PAY YOUR POLL TAX._ IN Florida, Kentucky, Texas and West Virginia _You must reside in the State._ * * * * * _A man convicted of almost any crime may be barred from voting._ Alabama Must reside in the State two years, one year in the County and three months in the election precinct. Poll taxes for 1901 and each year since then must be paid before the first of February prior to the election. Persons over forty-five years of age are exempt from poll tax. Must be registered and hold a certificate of registration. In order to register, must be able to read and write any Article of the Constitution of the United States, and must be regularly engaged in some work, employment, business, trade or calling, the greater part of the year before election, unless physically unable to work. A person who cannot read and write, must own, or his wife must own forty acres of land upon which he must live, or must own real and personal property assessed at three hundred dollars, or his wife must own the same, upon which the taxes for the year before election must be paid. Any person convicted of felony, adultery, larceny, wife-beating, miscegenation, vagrancy, selling or offering to sell his vote, is forever barred from voting. Arkansas Must reside one year in the State, six months in the County, and one month in the election precinct. Must exhibit a poll tax receipt or other evidence that the poll tax has been paid at the regular time for collecting such tax. Florida Must reside one year in the State and six months in the County. Georgia Must reside one year in the State and six months in the County. Must have paid all taxes prior to election.