1909_private laws_299_8
CHAPTER 298 AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER AND EXTEND THE COR- PORATE LIMITS OF THE TOWN OF MADISON. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
That the registrar shall be furnished by said board of aldermen with registration books, and it shall be his duty, after being qualified to perform the functions of his office fairly, impartially and according to law, to revise the existing registration book of the said town in such a manner that said: book shal! show an accurate list of electors previously registered in such town and still residing therein and entitled to vote without requiring such electors to be registered anew; and such registrar shall, also. between the hours of seven oclock A. M. and sunset (Sunday excepted), from and including the last Monday in March, up to ten days previous to the election, keep open the book for the registration of any electors residing in the town and entitled to registration whose names do not appear in the revised list, and he shall register in said books all names of persons not so registered who mmay apply for registration and who are entitled to vote in said town, keeping the names of white voters separate and apart from those of the colored voters; and any person offering to register may be required to take and subscribe an oath that he has resided in the State of North Carolina two years and in the town of Madison ninety days previous to the day of election, and that he is twentyone years of age, and that he is a qualified elector of said town, as defined in section four of this act. If any person willfully swear falsely in taking such oath, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be sentenced to pay a fine of one hundred dollars and imprisoned sixty days in the county jail. But the board of aldermen, on fifteen days notice before the opening of the books, may order an entirely new registration of voters whenever they may deem it necessary and proper.