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legislature is to provide for registration after January 1,
1903, the qualifications and oaths of the registrars are
prescribed, the duties of the registrars before that date are
laid down, and an appeal is given to the county court and
Supreme Court if registration is denied. There are further
executive details in section 187, together with the
above-mentioned continuance of the effect of registration before
January 1, 1903. By section 188, after the last-mentioned date
applicants for registration may be examined under oath as to
where they have lived for the last five years, the names by
which they have been known, and the names of their employers."
(6) VIRGINIA. (in effect July 10th, 1902.)
Article II, Section 18. "Every male citizen of the United
States, twenty-one years of age, who has been a resident of the
State two years, of the county, city or town one year, and of
the precinct in which he offers to vote, thirty days, next
preceding the election in which he offers to vote, has been
registered, and has paid his state poll taxes, as hereinafter
required, shall be entitled to vote for members of the General
Assembly and all officers elected by the people; but removal
from one precinct to another, in the same county, city or town
shall not deprive any person of his right to vote in the
precinct from which he has moved, until the expiration of thirty
days after such removal."
Section 19. "There shall be general registrations in the
counties, cities and towns of the State during the years
nineteen hundred and two and nineteen hundred and three at such
times and in such manner as may be prescribed by an ordinance of
this Convention. At such registrations every male citizen of the
United States having the qualifications of age and residence
required in Section Eighteen shall be entitled to register, if
he be:
"First. A person who, prior to the adoption of this
Constitution, served in time of war in the army or navy of the
United States, of the Confederate States, or of any State of the
United States or of the Confederate States; or
"Second. A son of any such person; or
"Third. A person, who owns property, upon which, for the year
next preceding that in which he offers to register, state taxes
aggregating at least one dollar, have been paid; or
"Fourth. A person able to read any section of this Constitution,
submitted to him by the officers of registration and to give a
reasonable explanation of the same; or, if unable to read such
section, able to understand and give a reasonable explanation
thereof when read to him by the officers.