The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-10-25
tOFFICIAL.l
Acts Passed at the Late Session of
the Legislature.

AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE NEXT
GENERAL ELECTION AND THE MAN
NER OF CONDUCTING THE SAME.
l. BE IL enacted by the Senate and
House Of Representatives of The State
Of Soufh Carolina, no,u met and siNino
in General assembly, and bytte amho-
riy Of the same, The next general
election in this State shall be held on
the first Tuesday after the first Mon
day in November next.
LII. For the purposes of carrying
on such election, it shall be the duty
OF the Governor, and he is hereby
authorized and empowered, to ap-
point in and for each County three
Commissioners of Elections, whose
duty it shall be, and they are hereby
authorized and empowered, to an
point three Managers of Elections
Tor each election precinct of the
County for which they shall respec-
lively be appointed. The said Com
mlssioners of Elections and the said
Managers of Elections shall take and
subscribe, before any officer author
lied to administer oaths, the follow
ing oath of Office prescribed by sec
tion 80 of Article II of the Constitu-
tion, and the same shall be imme-
diately filed, in each instance, in the
office of the Clerk of the County in
which said Commissioners and Mana
gers shall be appointed; and if there
be no such Clerk duly qualified by
law, then in the office of the Secre-
tary of State.
LII. The said election shall be held
IN each County at such and as many
places as may be designated by the
Commissioners aforesaid, and shall
be conducted in each precinct under
the superintendent of the said
Managers, who shall conform in such
election to existing laws and regula-
tlons regarding elections, except as
hereinafter otherwise provided.
~. 1t shall be the duty of such
Managers, commencing twenty days
prior to such election, and giving ten
days public notice of the time and
place of such revision, to r wise, for
a period of three days, the registra-
tlon lists upon which the election
commencing the second day of June,
one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-eight, and ending the third day
of June of the sans year, was con-
Quoted, by the addition to such lists
OF the names of all persons entitled
to vote under the Constitution who
have not already been registered,
and by striking from such lists the
names of such persons as shall not
by law be entitled to vote. For the
purposes of such revision, such
Managers shall meet at the places
designated by the Commissioners, as
provided in the next preceding Sec
ton.
V. The Managers are hereby au-
thorized to appoint Clerk to assist
them in whatever duties NAV be re-
quircd OF them, who shall take the
oath OF office hereinbefore mentioned
before the Chairman Of the Board of
Managers.
VI. The Commissioners aforesaid,
and the Managers aforesaid, at their
first meetings, respectively, shall pro-
ceed to organize themselves as Board
by appointing one of their number
Chairman of the Board; and such
Chairman, in each instance, shall be
empowered to administer the neces-
sary oaths.
VII. The polls shall be opened at
such voting places as shall be desig-
mated, at 6 o'clock in the forenoon
and closed at 6 o'clock in the after
noon of the day of election, and
shall be kept open durino these
hours without intermission or ad-
journment.
VIII. Representatives in the House
of Representatives of the Congress of
the United States, shall be chosen at
such election in the several Congress
sional Districts by the qualified elec-
tors therein.
TX. The State Constable and other
peace officers of each County are
hereby required to be present during
the whole time that the polls are
kept open, and until the election is
completed; and they shall prevent all
interference with the Managers, and
see that there is no interruption of
good order. If there should be more
than one polling place in any County,
the State Constable of such County is
hereby empowered and directed to
make an assignment of his deputies,
and other peace officers, to such other
polling places as NAV, in his indo..