ding upon the result of the election for
which such registration is made, nor serving at the time of
such registration in the regular army or navy of the United
States, shall be entitled to vote at such elections for all
officers, State, county, or municipal, made elective by the
people, or any other election held in pursuance of the laws
of this State; but he shall not vote elsewhere than in the
election district where his name is registered, except as
provided in the twenty-first section of the second article
of the Constitution.
SEC. 2.--The several clerks of the County Courts in this
State shall provide a suitable registration book for each
election district in their several counties, which shall
have written or printed therein the following oath: "We the
undersigned, do solemnly swear or affirm that we will
support the Constitution of the United States and of the
State of Missouri."
SEC. 3.--On or before the 9th day of March, 1871, the
several County Courts in this State shall appoint some
competent person to act as Registrar in each election
district in their respective counties, who shall have the
qualifications of an elector in his election district, and
who shall hold his office until the general election in
1872, and until his successor is elected and qualified. Said
Registrar shall have authority to administer all oaths which
may be necessary in the registration of voters.
SEC. 4.--Any person having the qualification of a voter as
prescribed in the first section of this act, and who shall
take and subscribe the oath required of voters by the second
section of this act, and who applies for registration at the
time and in the manner prescribed by law, and any
naturalized citizen who shall subscribe to a written
statement, under oath, before the Registrar, that he is
naturalized according to the laws of the United States and
of this State, and has resided in this State, according to
the first section of this act, and that his naturalization
papers or evidence of his citizenship have been lost or
destroyed, or that the same are not accessible t
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