The Camden confederate. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1861-1865, 1862-09-12

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THE STA ATE QEx@e0U UTH CAROLYN a.
At Convention of sthe People Of. the State
Of South Carolina, re-assembled by appoint
nlept Of ths REesflent thereof at Columbia,
s ,o6 The twenty sixth day of December, IN the
Year OF our Eord one tlfousand eight hun
dred and sixty-one, and thence continucylr tly-
divers adjourninents to the sixth day Of Jan
uary, IN The year of our Lord one thousand.
S-scight hnndSsd and ffty-two = 49, "a
AN ORDINANCE TO ENABLE CITIZENS CT THIS
STATE, WHO ARE ENGAGED IN MILITARY SER
VICE, TO EXERCISE THE RIGHT OF sUFF-
RAGE. assn - 81 So. q
We, the People. of The State Of .Soutk Caro-
Ina, IN Conyention as em6led, do declare and
ordain, and ii IS Hereby declared and ordoisaed,
: SECTION Il That all ctizers of this State,
who are engaged in the military servce either
of this State or of the Confederate States, and
on that account arc absent from their respec-
tive Election Districts at the time of any gen
eral district election shall be entitled to ex-
ercse the right of suffrage in all respects as
fully as they could do were they present in
their respective Election Districts s. Sjp i
Sec. 2. That for the purpose of enabling
such persons SO to exercise the right of sutf-
rage, it shall2be their privilege when any two
more may be at the same camp, or other
place where soldiers are copgregated, to have
opened at such camp or other place, a poll, to
be managed by any two commissioned officers,
citizens o.. this State, who may be. by such yo-
ters selected to manage the same
Sec. 3. That before entering upon the man
agement of such poll, the Managers shall take
The oath prescribed by the laws of this State
to be administered to Managers of Elections;
which oath they are hereby authorized to ad-
minister, to each other; and they are further
empowered to administer to the voters the
oath prescribed for that purpose by THE laws
of this State.
SEC. a.. That in the management of such
poll, the Managers shall make a schedule con-
tanning.
i. A captain, setting forth the place and
time such election was held, and the Election
District and the Office for which it was held.
~ 2. The names of all the voters, enrolled by
the Managers, and subscribed by the voters to
the oath administered to each; each voter af-
fixing his signature by his own hand, opposite
to the name enrolled by The Managers
3. An attestation signed by the Managers.
Sec. 5. That Immediately upon closing the
poll, the Managers shall immediately proceed
to count the ballots, and shall subjoin the
schedule above mentioned certificate, under
their hands, setting forth the fact of counting
and the number OF votes cast for each individ-
ual.s And the Managers shall thereupon en-
close the said schedule and certificates, under
scaled cover, addressed to the Clerk of the
Court of the judicial District in which such
Election District may be situated, and endors-
ed: Election Returns for Election
District for the office of ---,' and trans
anit the same byma, Or by some messenger,
TO be employed at the expense of the voters.
Apd if the election shall be for member of
Congress, with the said Schedule and certifi-
cate, shall be enveloped the ballots cast.
Sec. Z. That tho said poll shall be opened on
the day fixed for such election to be had in the
Election District to which it pertains, or con
any day within,te days preceding that day,
(not computing that day. and at such hours as
the Managers may designate most con-
venicnt.'
SEC. 7. That 1t shall be the duty of the
Clerk of the GonrtIby which any such election
return may have been received, to deliver or
transmit the same to the Managers Of Elections
for such Election District, On or before the day
on which they may assemble at the Court
House or other place appointed by law for de-
claring such election. land the Managers so
assembled shall proceed to aggregate the re-
turns which may be thus received with the re-
turns which shall have, been made by them