for ninety days before voting at an election, and he must qualify as a voter in the same way as do native-born citizens.

Who is entitled to vote in this State?

Every male citizen of the age of twenty-one years, who shall have been a citizen for ninety days, and an inhabitant of the State for one year next preceding election, and the last four months a resident of the county, and for the last thirty days a resident of the election district in which he may offer his vote, is entitled to vote in the election district of which he is at the time a resident, and not elsewhere, for all officers that are elected by the people, and upon all questions that are submitted to the vote of the people.

Electors in actual service in the army and navy are permitted to vote where they at the time reside.

No elector is deemed to have gained or lost a residence while employed in the service of the United States, while engaged in navigating the waters of this State or of the United States or of the high seas; nor while a student in any seminary of learning, nor while kept at any almshouse or other asylum or institution

wholly or partly supported at public expense or by charity, nor while confined in any public prison.

What persons are excluded from the right of suffrage?

Those convicted of bribery offered or accepted for voting at an election, and of any infamous crime.

How is the intention to vote indicated, and how is it possible to ascertain whether a man is a qualified elector?

Every voter must previously register. Registration must be completed at least ten days before each election. In towns and villages of five thousand and upward, voters are registered upon personal application only. Opportunity for investigation is thus afforded to the election officers.

When and where does the elector register?

Between sunrise and sunset in all parts of the State except New York City, and in New York City between six o'clock A.M. and four o'clock P.M., on days fixed by the election officers and advertised in the newspapers.

Each elector may legally register only in the election district where he resides.

I IIԵ ԵAՆԵՆ Ս. an erection district depen density of population. In cities an ele district is sometimes but half a block; in rural counties it is often a whole town There are about five thousand polling. p in the sixty counties of the State.

What is a county?

It is a subdivision of a State, and is for: chiefly for the despatch of judicial and finar business. It has no legislative function. the States have these subdivisions, called co ties in all except Louisiana, where they called parishes.

Ten of the counties of New York Sta Albany, Dutchess, Kings, New York, Oran Queens, Richmond, Suffolk, Ulster, and We chester were erected Nov. 1, 1683. The late erected was Schuyler, April 27, 1854, and t others were formed between the two dat given. Counties are erected and their bour daries changed at the will of the Legislatur With the exception of Hamilton County, whic elects with Fulton, each is entitled to at leas one member of the Assembly.

The counties vary greatly in their area and