Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1872-04-04
OFFICIAL.
Acts and Joint Resolutions Passed
by the General Assembly OF South
Carolina, Regular Session., 1871
and 1872.

AN ACT to Prouide for General and
.Speciaz Elections, and the Manner
Of Conducting the Same.
SECTION l. Be 1t itenacted by the Sen,
ate and House of Representatives, OF
the State CT South Carolina, now
met and sitting in General Assembly
andby the authority of the same !;
That all general and special cleo
tions, held pursuant to the Constitu,
tion Of this State, shall be regulated
and conducted. according to the rules,
principles and provisions herein pre-
scribed.
SEC. 2. The Commissioners of Elec-
ton shall provide one box for each n
election precinct. An opening shall
be made in the lid Of the box, not
larger than shall be sufficient Tor a
single ballot to be inserted therein q, at
one time, through which each ballot
received, proper to be placed in such
box, shall be inserted by the person
voting, and by no other. Each box
shall be provided with a sufficient
lock, and such box shall be publicly
opened and inspected. to see that it is
empty and secure, and then locked
lust before the opening of the poll,
and the keys returned to the Mana
gers, and shall not be opened during
the election. Each box for such pre-
cipct shall be labelled as follows
"Congress, State, " Circuit, and
"County Officers.
Sec. 8. At the close Of. the election,
the Managers and Clerk shall immee
diately proceed, publicly, to open the
ballot box and count the ballots there
in. and continue such count without
adjournment or interruption until the
same is completed, and make such
statement of the result thereof, and
sign the same, as the nature OF the
election shall require. If, in count
ing, two or more like ballots shall be
found folded together compactly, only
one Shall be counted, and the other
destroyed; but if they bear different
names, the same shall be destroyed,
and not counted. If more ballo's
shall be found, on opening the box,
than there are names on the poll list,
all the ballots shall be returned to
the box and thoroughly mixed togeth-
er; and one Of the Managers, or the
Clerk, snail, without seeing tire bal
lots, draw therefrom, and Immediately
destroy as many ballots as there are
in excess Of the number Of names On
the poll list; within three days there
after, the Chairman Of the Board Of
Managers, or one of them, to be de-
signated in writing by the Board,
shall deliver to the Commissioners OF
Election the poll list, the boxes con-
tanning the ballots, and u written
statement of the result OF the cleo
tion in his precinct.
SEC. 4. After the final Adjournment
of the Board of County Canvassers,
and within the time prescribed in
this Act, the Chairman Of the Board
shall forward, addressed to the Gov
ernor and Secretary of State, by. a
messenger, the returns, poll list, and
all papers appertainIns to the cleo,
ton. The said messenger to be paid
his actual expenses upon a certificate
to be furnished him by the Secretary
of State. Said certificate shall be
paid out of the fuads provided for TIE
payment of Commissioners and Man
ayers Of Election.
SEC. 5. All Acts or parts Of Acts
in any way conflicting with this Act,
are hereby repealed.
Approved March u, 1872.