Chapter IX: Section 20: "After the first day of January, nineteen hundred
and four, every male citizen of the United States, having the
qualifications of age and residence required in section
Eighteen, shall be entitled to register, provided:
"First. That he has personally paid to the proper officer all
state poll taxes assessed or assessable against him, under this
or the former Constitution, for the three years next preceding
that in which he offers to register;
"Second. That, unless physically unable, he make application to
register in his own hand-writing, without aid, suggestion or
memorandum, in the presence of the registration officers,
stating therein his name, age, date and place of birth,
residence and occupation at the time and for the two years next
preceding, and whether he has previously voted, and, if so, the
state, county and precinct in which he voted last; and,
"Third. That he answer on oath any and all questions affecting
his qualifications as an elector, submitted to him by the
officers of registration, which questions, and his answers
thereto, shall be reduced to writing, certified by the said
officers, and preserved as a part of their official records."
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