REGISTRATION.

AN ACT

TO PROVIDE FOR ESTABLISHING AND MAINTAINING, AT PUBLIC EXPENSE, PERMANENT REGISTRATION LISTS OF ALL QUALIFIED ELECTORS IN ELECTION PRECINCTS INCLUDED WHOLLY OR PARTIALLY WITHIN THE LIMITS OF CITIES OF THE FIRST AND SECOND CLASSES, AND ALL OTHER CITIES WITH A GREATER POPULATION THAN FIFTEEN THOUSAND INHABITANTS, AND TO PROVIDE FOR PUNISHING ALL VIOLATIONS THEREOF, AND TO REPEAL ALL OTHER ACTS AND PARTS OF ACTS INCONSISTENT THEREWITH.

Be it Enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado: Section 1. No person shall hereafter be permitted to vote at any general or special election, whether national, state, district, county or city (excepting election of school trustees), held in any election precinct included wholly or partially within the limits of any city of the first or second class, or any other city, whether incorporated under general law or special charter, with a greater population than fifteen thousand (15,000) inhabitants, without first having been registered within the time, and in the manner and form, required by the provisions of this act.

Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the board of county commissioners in each county in which any such election precincts are included, within five days after the first day in March 1894, to employ canvassers, each of whom shall be a qualified elector in such precinct, not more

than one to each precinct, and make and complete within twenty days thereafter, at the expense of the county, a full and accurate registration of all female persons who at that time are qualified electors in all such election precincts. Registration shall be taken by such canvassers in the same manner as at the office of the county clerk, except that they shall be taken upon separate sheets of paper, one sheet for each registration, instead of upon the permanent registration books. It shall be the duty of the several canvassers to return to the county clerk each morning the registrations taken by him on the previous day; and any canvasser who shall willfully fail to return to the county clerk the sheets of paper showing such registration shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor for each registration sheet not so returned, and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not less than one nor more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. It shall be the duty of the county clerk to enter daily all such registrations in the permanent registration books in his office for the respective precincts, and preserve in his office for the period of two years thereafter such original registration sheets. The county clerk shall under the column of "Remarks," identify each such registration with the original registration sheet therefor.

Sec. 3. To entirely each qualified elector to be lawfully registered he shall be required to answer concerning each of the following matters: (1) Name in full; (2) Whether married or single; (3) Place of residence, which if urban or suburban, shall be located according to its street number, or if there be no street number, then by the number and description of the lot or lots in the block or blocks in the addition, division or subdivision into which the land upon which the residence is located, is divided, in all other cases the residence shall be located by the section or sections or subdivisions thereof, in the township and range as established and numbered by the United States government survey; (4)

Whether owner of, tenant of or lodger with occupant of residence; (5) Whether a native born citizen of the United States, or, if a female, by marriage to a citizen of the United States, or by naturalization of self or parents; if the latter, state as near as may be to the best knowledge, information or belief of the applicant for registration, when self or parents were naturalized, the place of naturalization and by what court the naturalization papers were granted. Like answers shall also be made where only a declaration of intention to become a citizen has been made; (6) A description of his person, consisting of his height, age, sex, complexion, color of eyes and any other physical features by which he can be readily identified; (7) His profession, business or employment; (8) His postoffice address; Provided, however, It shall only be necessary for a female voter to state that she is twenty-one years of age in answer to all questions relating to her age.

Sec. 4. In the making of said registration by the board of county commissioners the writing of his own name by each elector shall not be required, but thereafter shall be in all other cases where the elector can write; if he be unable to write, he may make his mark and write his name with the assistance of the county clerk in the presence of his vouchers.

Sec. 5. The board shall from time to time, as required, provide for each one of all such election precincts of the county, a book or books of convenient size and shape, arranged for the registration of names in alphabetical divisions, each alphabetical division to be composed of ruled columns with appropriate headings, under which the proper answers to the statements, made by each elector, in being registered in compliance with this act, shall be recorded. The names of electors as registered, shall be numbered under each alphabetical division, consecutively, from one (1) upwards, and the date of registration shall also be recorded. There shall also be ruled columns under each one of said alphabetical divisions for the full names, and registry numbers of those registered electors who become

vouchers for the purpose of securing the registering of electors, personally seeking to be thereafter registered; also a column with the heading "Registration Changed From," and sub-headings, "Election Precinct No. —," and "Registry No. -," whereunder in all cases of change of registration made necessary by change of residence of elector or change of boundaries, or establishment of new election precincts, shall be stated, the election precinct and registry number of the elector's last registration. There shall also be a ruled column headed, "Remarks," under which shall be briefly noted any important information affecting the registry of the elector, whose name they follow, including any explanation of any erasure or other suspicious appearance in such registration, as well as the change in the registration of the names of electors from one election precinct to another by reason of a change of residence, or a change of election precinct boundaries, or an establishment of a new election precinct or precincts.

Sec. 6. The headings of each alphabetical division aforesaid, for each such election precinct, shall be substantially as follows, viz.: