1899 private laws – Ch. 171 Sec. 6
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CHAPTER 171 An act to amend the charter of the city of Goldsboro, and to revise and consolidate ali laws in relation to said city. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Said registrar shall be furnished by said board of aldermen with registration books at the expease of the city. and it shail be the duty of said registrar to open his books at the time and place designated at said city at least ten days before the day of election herein provided for, and to register therein the names of all persons applying for registration and entitled to register and vote. [t shall be the duty of the registrar to keep the names of the white voters separate and apart from those of colored voters. The registration books shall be closed on Saturday preceding the election at seven oclock p. m., and no registration shall be valid unless it specifies as near as may be the age, oecupation, place of birth and place of residence in the ward in which he offers to register. as weli as the township or county from whence the elector has removed, in the event of removal, and the full name by which he is known. .