Personal Property Voters

PROVIDENCE, June 14, 1902.

To His Excellency Charles Dean Kimball, Governor of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations:

We have received from your excellency a request for our opinion upon the following question, viz.:

"What disposition should be made by a board of canvassers of the name of a personal property voter upon his ceasing to be assessed, who has not registered within the registration year in which his last assessment was in force ?"

We are of the opinion that the name of such a voter should be immediately stricken from the voting list upon the expiration of the period of…