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such platted lands shall be annexed to and included within the limits of said Town, the Commission
may accept such addition and annex all such platted lands and include the same within the
corporate limits of said Town.
(h) To establish and set apart in said Town separate residential limits or districts for white and
negro residents; to designate, establish and set apart the territorial limits or districts of said Town within
which white persons may reside, and separate territorial limits or districts of said Town within which
negroes may reside; to prohibit any white person from taking up or establishing a place of residence within
the territorial limits of said Town so set apart and established for the residence of negroes, and to prohibit
any negro from taking up or establishing a place of residence within the territorial limits of said Town
so set apart and established for the residence of white persons; to define the terms "resident," and "place
of residence."

Elections.
Registration.
Sec. 34. No individual elector shall be entitled to vote at any election held under this Charter
unless each elector shall have registered on or before the day preceding the day of such election, and no such
elector shall be entitlted to register unless such elector shall have reached the age of twenty-one years and
shall have resided within the State twelve months and within the Town six months immediately preceding
such registration, and shall also be a citizen of the United States of America.

Sec 35. Every registered individual, male or female, elector shall be qualified to vote at any
general or special election held under this charter to elect or recall commissioners, and at any other special
election held for any of the following purposes:
To ratify the granting of a public franchise.
To ratify the sale of municipal real estate, including parks.
To ratify the closing of public streets.
To ratify the purchase or construction of a public utility.
To initiate the passage of an ordinance.
To repeal an ordinance.

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