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Any willful and corrupt false statement in said affidavit or in
answer to any material question propounded as herein authorized
shall be perjury."
Section 244, Article 12, constitution of Mississippi, requires that:
"On and after the first day of January, 1892, every elector in
addition to the foregoing qualifications, shall be able to read
any section of the constitution of this state; or shall be able
to understand the same when read to him, or give a reasonable
interpretation thereof."
(2) SOUTH CAROLINA.
Subdivision (c). "Up to January 1, 1898, all male persons of
voting age applying for registration, who can read any section
of this constitution submitted to them, _or understand and
explain it_ when read to them by the registration officer, shall
be entitled to registration and become electors."
Subdivision (d). "Any person who shall apply for registration
after January 1, 1898, if otherwise qualified, shall be
registered: _Provided_ that he can both read and write any
section of the constitution submitted to him by the registration
officer or can show that he owns and has paid taxes collectible
during the previous year on property in this state assessed at
three hundred dollars ($300) or more."
(3) LOUISIANA.
Section 3. "He (the voter) shall be able to read and write, and
shall demonstrate his ability to do so when he applies for
registration, by making, under oath administered by the
registration officer or his deputy, written application
therefor, in the English language, or his mother tongue, which
application shall contain the essential facts necessary to show
that he is entitled to register and vote, and shall be entirely
written, dated, and signed by him, in the presence of the
registration officer or his deputy, without assistance or
suggestion from any person or memorandum whatever, except the
form of application hereinafter set forth: _Provided, however,_
That if the applicant be unable to write his application in the
English language, he shall have the right, if he so demands, to
write the same in his mother tongue from the dictation of an
interpreter; and if the applicant is unable to write his
application by reason of physical disability, the same shall be
written at his dictation by the registration officer or his
deputy, upon his oath of such disability. The application for
registration, above provided for, shall be a copy of the
following form, with the proper names, dates, and numbers
substituted for the blanks appearing therein, to wit: