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"Elective Franchise and Qualifications for Office," Virginia Constitution of 1902
Sec. 20. After the first day of January, nineteen hundred and four, every male citizen of the United States, having
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; or, if he has come
of age at such time that no poll tax shall have been assessable against him for the year preceding the year in which he
offers to register, has paid one dollar and fifty cents, in satisfaction of the first year's poll tax assessable against him; and
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 officer, 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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