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s q. • OIMMfflMNIIIMNMIMIMI _ - HELENA. Gold and Silver $1 50 Zhu: niirer,geld and lead 2 CO Ti,,' 6 110 Lead 1 00 Antimony S(X) Coppe r 1 50 Arsenic 5 00 adios 1. 50 Iron 1 e BUENA ADVERTISEME-NTS. Maas= OBANDLOR Knaployinent A g ent. Bp- etanolialses Help of All Kluda. Ne. 24. Fammtiossiwurr, .11etr_s*, Mineroi.t. oseFit•14 AND CHEMICAL LABORATORY ea Ts (31-Cririn a . : MONTANA. OD T. O. POWER & BRO. HELENA, M. T. DICAL,Wi IN MininE Mac..hine.ry and Miners' Supplies+. liciterstes Aunwra von • BLAKE'S IMPROVED STEAM PUMPS. --WEAR HOISTS— AND MYRON 'SWIM WROUGHT IRON WHIRS Safeiy Nitro Powder, Caps Fuse. Etc. STZAWBOAT Bcoelt, : : HELENA : M. 'P. T im THOMAS CRUSH SAVINGS BANK T-LICLIGINT.A.. Incorporated l'uder the Laws of Montana. PAID IN CAPITAL, xo o,o oo. THOMAS CRUSE, Preaident T. 11. CARTER Vice -President. <'. L. DAIII.ER Treasurer. K. J. CA RTER Secretary. Allows six per cent. interest mi Savin g s Depo'sits, rompounded January and July. ' Transacts a g e n eral bankin g business, draws ex- chan g e on the principal cities of the United States end it:11n m '.. Will utak, lt78,i on County and City bonds, and real rmatt• mortga,;., THE AGE - • - II' LDER, MONT. Weo'Nesnay, Jeer re Mee THE REGISTRATION LAW. The following is the registration law enacted at the last session of the Leg- iSlature of thé Territory of Montana and which went into effect on the first day of the present month: An act to provide for the registration of the names of electors and to pre- vent fraud.at elections. Be it enacted by the Legislative ..44eembly,of the Territory of 411ontanui' • Sri ox I. The Boards of County Commissioners of the several counties in Montana shall at their regular meeting in June, 1889, and thereafter at each regular_ June meeting to. be held every general election year, lay emit their several and respective coun- ties in convenient Election Districts which shall be numbered and known as Election Dietrict No. 1-, Election District No. ?, and so on. There shall not be less than two nor more •thern twenty Election Districts in any sin- gle county. The County Commission- ers shall, in creating and catablishing --said Election Dietriets ï inelude-in-any one district as many polling -places and precincts as shall be necessary and convenient for the voters of the said Election District, wherein such voting precincts may be esta,blIshed. The polling precincts shall be established as may be provided by general laws; - .provided, that in June, - 1889, the Election Districts to be established under this law shall be established with reference to and to include every precinct where votes were cast at the last general election in Montana held prior to June, 1889, but no voting precinct shall be established after the first (lay of registration as herein pro- vided. ' And at any regular meeting after June, 1889, and prior to the first i day of registration as herein provided, the County Commissioners shall have ' liehed as herein provided for; provid- ed, after June, -1890, nO incretuse or dechase shall be 'made in the number of such Election Districts oftener than once in two years. SEC. 2. There shall be one Registry Agent for each Election District cre- ated pursuant to this act. -All Registry Agents shall be competent persons and shall be appointed by the Board of County Ceintniesioners. They shall be resident freeholders and qualified . voters in the several Election Districts ‚ for which they shall be appointed. , They shall be and are hereby author- ized and empowered to adminisrer ohthe and affirmations and to do such other acts as may be necessary to fully cartey out the provisions of this act; provided, except as herein provided for, the first Registry Agents to be appointed under this act shall be ap- pointed by the County Cononiesioners of the several counties at their regu- lar meetings in June, 1889, and they shall hold. their offices until June 4th, 1890, and until their successors are appointed' and qualified; provided further, that no person a candidate for or who holds a Territorial, county, or other office, shall be eligible to hold the office of Register Of Elections. All Registry Agents shall be appointed bi- ennially each regular general election year, ut the regular June meeting of the Board of Commissioners, and shall held their offices for the peried of two years, eZeept as is hereinafter other- wise provided, but they shall be sub- ject to removal at any time by the Board of County Commissioners; pro- vided, that in any Election ‚District wherein any incorporated city contain- ing five thousand population _or more is situated, it shall be lawful, for the County Cononissioners to appoint two Registry Agents, and in ally District where We Registry Agents shall hews‚ appointed', the County Cominissioneia. shall allot, by order entered their minutes, to each of sneh agente, the part iettiar precincts in which such Agents shall make the registration e I.Lin ~et. . SCE. 3 . . It shall be the duty of the Chairman of the Board of County Cetemissioners of any county in Mon- tana, when he shall have received no- tice - from. any responsible citizen, of the death, disqualification, or resigna- tion of any Registry Agents; after the opening and prior to the closing of the books of registration, to immedi- ately, without giving notice, appoint some competent person to fill such vaeapcy, and it shall be the duty of such person so appointed !o qualify I within two days after receiving notice of such appointment. Should such person so sppointed fhil to qtialify withid the time herein provided, vot- ers may, upon pi -mincing evidence as to their right to vote, be registered in any other District in said county, and any person so registered in any other District shall, upon presentation and surrender of a certificate of registra - non signed by the Registry Agent of said istrict, be considered a legal ttoter in the precinct of the District in which he is a resident; provided, this section shall not be so construed Mtotiterfere with tu — riet of the full Board of Commissioners to make such appointment except in vases here- in provided. „ If any perse applies to be registered in any I.N.triet other than the one in which he resides, and is entitled upon proof .to Le certificate of registration, as provided for in this section, such applicant, in addition to the proof ‚required by this'.act to en f - title him to registration, shall take and 'subscribe to an oath before the Regis- try Agent, in substantially the follow- ing form: Montana, ---, 'I do solemnly swear that I niàke this application for registration in Dis- trict NO. - of — county, Mon- tana, because 'there is no Registry Agent within Election District No. —, which is the district where I reside. and am entitled to vote. discretionary power, on petition of ten • qualified voters within any Election I Subscribed and sworn to before me this — (lay of 18—. Distriét, to vacate, ohange, consoli- I date, remove, or establish aiiir voting H Registr)( Agent. precincts within the. Dimtrictê eatab- Whereupon such persen shall re- ceive from the Registry Agent of - such District a certificate, which cer- tificate shall bear the registry . seal and be substantially as follows, to -wit:. REGISTRATION CERTIFICATE. I hereby eertify that is a cit- izen of the United States,, tir has de - dared his intention to beerinem ‚ mic e, is of the age of —Years, and has been *a resident of Montana for the peat — c(Sitsecutive months and a resident of county for — ,months, and of the precinct for Mere than — days, and that he is.in all respects a quali- fied registered elector under the laws; and I further certify ‚hat the - reason he applies for and that I grant this registration certificate is because with- in District where he resides, there is no Registry Agent*. And I further certify that lie is under the lawsentitled to vote in the Preeinet of Election District county, Montana. Witness my 'hand and seal of office in Election District- No. --- coun- ty, Montana. [sem..] Registry Agent, Election District eounty, Montana. Sec. 4. The Cebuty Commissioners of the 'several counties, shall provide for the Registry Agents in their re- spective Counties when and where re- quired all proper and necessary books, seaN, and stationery. to carry out the provisions of this act (particularly printed copies of this aet„•. They shall fern WI tocada Uegistry Agent a bound book, which shall be knewn as the 7'01licial Register, - which shall be ruled in columns of suitable dimen- sions to provide -for the following- en- tries opposite the,name of each elect- or, to -wit: First, ninnihe'r of ee . eie try; second, .date of registry; third, nanw of -elector: fourth, iige of elector, lifth, where born; HBIllber ef werd or name of electoral precinct; sevelitle description Of resideitee; eighth, certificate 'of naturalization exhibitGd, orrt illeate of declara t ion 3. -Fr latePtine leseanner titleen, at a certified copy thereof. They hall also furniele each Registry Agent with a -seal, upon which shall be engraved substantially as follows:'\ County, Montana. -Registry Seal, Election District NO.- The name, of the county and t lie number of the Election District shall be engraved upon such' seal - to correspond 'to the county and the Election District in which such seal is to be used. SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of the Registry Agents at any time when called upon to do so at their respective Offices between the hours of two p. m. and eight on all legal daysfroin and after the fifteenth day of Seplem- ber to the fifth (hay of October, and between the hours of ten a. m. and ten p. in. from the fifth day of October to and including the fifteenth day of October, prior to any general election not herein otherwise provided for, to receiye and register the names of' all persons legally qualified and entitled to vote at such election or who will have legally acquired a residence (be- ing otherwise qualified) and who have a right to . vote at such ensuing election steeordingto the provisions of law un- der which such election may be held in each election precinct within their re- spective districts. 'Registry Agente shall enter on the official register.,,un- der , the proper heading, the number 'and date of registre, the name (with the first or given name in full), the ageand nativity of the elector,' to- gether with the number of the ward (if within an incorporated town or city the name of preeinct, and à par- I ticular description of the house, build -1 ing, or room in which the elector re- side, such as will enable a person of common understanding to find the same without difficulty; and when the person so registered shall be of foreign birth the fact of the exhibition of 03', failure tó exhibit his certificate of naturalizatien or certificate of declar- ation of intentionlo become a citizen, or certified copy thereof, shall be noted in the oblumn provided for that pur- pose. which list properly entered as in • this section required Shall be known as the \Official Register of Elections - of their respectivo Districts; and pro- Vided further, that ‘ if any mescal' shall fail or refuse its give his residence wit is the particularity required in this, sim- tion, he shall not be registerel. The . _Registry Agents shall causo to be published in at least one newspaper published within their respective Dis - stricte, and if -there be uo newspaper ' published in suds Distriets, fleet' in a newspaper published at the nearest -point to their Distriet and within - the county in which such District is sito- ated, for twenty days before -the expi- ration of the time provided tor regis- tration prior to any general election, a notice signed by the Registry Agent t() the eftect that the time fin. the reg- istration of the names of the qualified electors in Election :District No. —, giVin;:,; : also the names of the several precincts or poiling-plaees eauhrtteed in sueli Election Dist riot. prior to the eleetion, speeifying the elertion to be held on the — dav of — - , A. D. , for if minify of' time, will èxpire at ten O'clock ' ;. 1 1 “ :1 1 . - , on the — day of A. D. IS---. The publication of said notice shall continue until the - expiration of the' time provided for said registration; provided, that in remote or neW and sparsely settled preeinets, printed no- tices posted at not h•ss than li •m.(• con- spicuous pleees - '‚il luis said District shall be substituted the publication in a newspaper. Sc('. 6. Every person applying to be registered shall, before he shall be entitled to have his Hanle registered, take and subseribe to tie. felloming oath or anirmatina,. sh:r11 admiuh:tcrod I ›y t he registering agent, eiovideii. lima no elector whoIIS taken si at the time of Isis previous registration in Montana, shall be required to do se a second iime, • I do eolemuly swear or affirm that 1 am a citizen of tlw lui titi Stitt es (or that I -have declared my intention to become a citizen, of the Unft-emi titaeos); that I am et the* age of twenty-one years, and will ha -'o aetually and set constructively ,been a bona: fide resident in Montana six months, and in the county thirty days next preceding the day of the e^ nex,t,emeing elect ion, and that I ani not registered elsewhere in Montana en• this electoral year, so help me God (or under the pains and penaltieteof perjury). Whenever an oath is re- quired by the provisions of thin act, the elector shall swear according to his religious fhith or belief and in such manner as may be considered most obligatory - on his conscience. The registry books and lists shall be open at any time for inspection . by any qualified elector. 8fx. I. • When any person shall ap- pear and demand to be registered whom the registry agent shall, not know to be entitled to registry under the qualifications required by law, for the election then ensuing, the 'registry agent shall question the ap- plicant, generally, under oath, as to his qualifications as an elector, and if satisfied, shall enter his name itt . the registry, but if the registry agent shall not be fully satisfied or if the applicant be challenged by a qualified elector of the countx, stating distinct- ly the ground's of challenge, theregis- try agent shall require the applicant to answer truly, under oath or affirma- tion the following 'questions, together with fetich other questiáno as said reg-istry agent may consider necessary or 'proper, testing his qualifications as an decter fur the ensuineelection, to - wit: First, are you a citizen of the United. States, or have you declared your intention to become much? Sec- ond, are you now Or will you be twenty-one years of, age prior to the day of that next ensuing election? Third, on the - day of the next ensuing election, will you have actually and not constructively resided in Montana six months, and in'thie county thirty days next - preceding . the day of said election? Fourth, aro ,,you now à, reaideat of 'time 'said Election District its which you propose to be registered? Fifth, are you registered for thbielec- toral year in any other Election Dis- trict in the name you have neWleven 3 . or any other name? If any of the ' foregoing questions shall be answered in the negative except the fifth, or that in the affirmative, the applicant shall not be registered; but if the ap- plicant answer all the foregoing titles: tions in the affirmative , except the fifth and that In the negative, the ap- plicant shall he registered, A resi- dent within the. 'meaning of this act shall be construed to mean a person who has resided or will have resided continuously within Montana for six months, and in the county few thirty days as preseribed bY law, next pre , ceding the day of the next ensuing \ eleet ion. The' electoral year shall eounnenve the first day of January and end on' the thirty-firstiday of De- ' eember of each 'year. Whenever a person is registered under the provi- sions of this net, such registration shall hold good for two years; provid. oil, however, that such person shall retnin all the necessary quallfieatione as an eleetar, as defined in this act, anil un' n' idei further, that a Anne ot' residence • ill precinct, county, or district, shall require a new registra- -, tion. . . See. 8. When a naturalized citizen, or a person who hat( dedared his in - - tent ion to become a citizens shall ap- ply tiii. regi, ii s ration, his certificate of aaturalizatioi or certificate of inten- t ion to become, a citizen,' or cer4fled copy titered• - must be produced or stamped, 6r written in ink by the Registry Agent, with such Registry Agent's name a« the year and coun- ty where presented, but if it shall I satisfactorily appear to the Registry i :1gent, by the oath or affirmation of I the applicant (and the oath or afar- ! mutation of one or more creditable citi- zens as to the credibility of midi amdicafit when 'deemed necessary) 'that suels •cei:tificate of naturalization, or certificate of declaration of inten- tion to become -a citizen, or a certified copy thereof, is lost or destroyed, or beyond the reach of the applicant for '-tia\ time being, said Registry Agent sisa li register the name of said applicant unless he be bylaw otherwise disqualid lied; provided, that ils ease of failure to produce the certificate of naturali- zation, or certificate of deleation of intention to become a Citizen, or certi- fied copy thereof, the Registry Agent shall propound .to him the following questions: First --In what year did you come to the United States? Sec- ond—In what State or' Territory, county, court, and year did you de- clare your intention to becomegt.eiti- zee Third --In what State, Tea : dory / coun ty, einirt, and year_etre ,yotk .. , finally admitted to citizenship? Fourth —Where did you last see you; certi- ficate of naturalization, or certificate of declaration of intention to become a citizen, or certified copy thereof 7 The ánsswers to the above questions shall he taken down in the form of an affidavit, which shall be subscribed and Sworn to by the applicant and re- tained in possession by time Registry Agent, and, by uhu handed' over to his snee-emsor; provided, that no per- son shall be required to make the affidavit twice before the same agent or time successor of such agent having in his possession 'a former affidavit. [CONTI/IMO ON NEXT PAWL] - coNTii,AcTofte AND BUILDERS. T meiKENzum, J • CONTEtACTOlt AND BITII/DER,_ Ittouldnr, m o ntaiut. ESTIMATES GIVEN ON ALL ICINIM OF WORK MlitICE -ass emomAn Gomm WATCH 37 ,, x-eeo J. Mold for $100 until lately. Ran $116 vrateh the world, Perfect ti m ekeeper. Warranted. Helicv Solid (told Huntin g (James. Both 'maw!' and genii.' siZeN, with workm ailA eases of e q ual calm. One pennon in each leetdity con same one free, t«ellier with our lar g e and valuable line of 110USICHOLD SAMPLES em. . Th sateiplat as well am the crotch, we send FREE, und after you have kept them in your hoc for two months and shown them to thee who' may have called, they heounie your own prop e rty. Thaw who write at once can be Kure of receiving the WATCH and SAMPLES. We pay all express, freight. rte. AddressSTIN)4ON At CO., BON Al2. Prililand, q. •-•
