The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1878-10-30
ELECTION LAW.

SECTION /. That the general elections in
this State shall be held, pursuant to the
Constitution thereof, on the first Tuesday
following the first Monday in November in
every second year, and the same shall be con-
Quoted at the voting precincts fixed and desig-
mated by Law in the various Counties, cities
and towns of this State.
SEC. 2. Every male citizen of the United
States, OF, the age of twenty-one years and
upwards, not laboring under disabilities
named in the Consultation, without dlstlnc-
ton Of race, color or former condition, who
shall have been resident of the State for
one year, and in the County in which he
offers to vote for sixty days next preceding
any general elections. shall be entitled 10
vote: Provided, That no person. while kept
in any aims house or asylum, or or un<ound
mind, or confined in any public prison, shall
be allowed to vote.
SEC. 3. That for the purpose Of carrying
on such election it hall be the duty of the
Governor, at least sixty days prior to any
such election, to appoint in and for each
County, three Commissioners Of Election,
whose duty it shall be to appoint three Man
ayers of Elections for each election precinct
of the County for which they shall respec-
lively be appointed. The said Commission
ers of Election and said Managers Of Election
shall take and subscribe, before any officer
authorized to administer oaths, the oath OF
Office prescribed by Section 80 Of Article II.
of the Constitution, and the same shall be
Immediately filed, iu each instance, in the
Office Of the Clerk of the County in which
said Commissioners and Managers shall be
appointed; and if there be no such Clerk
duly qualified by law, then in the Office OF
the Secretary of State.
SEC. 4. The Managers are authorized 10
appoint Clerk to assist them in whatever
duties may be required of them, who shall
take the oath of Office prescribed by Section
| 80 of Article II. of the Constitution before
the Chairman of the Board of Managers.
SEC. S. The Commissioners aforesaid, and
| the Managers aforesaid, at their first meet
ings respectively, shall proceed to organize
themselves IS Board, BY appointing one OF
their number Chairman; and such Chairman,
in each Instance, shall be empowered to ad-
minister the necessary oaths. ;.'
Sec. g. The polls shall be opened at such
voting places as are designated by law by six
| o'clock in the forenoon, and close at six
| O'Clock IN the afternoon Of the day of cleo
| ton, and shall be kept open during these
hours without intermission or adjournment,
and the Managers shall administer TO each
person offering to vote an oath that he is
| qualified to vote at this election, according
! to the Constitution of this State, and that he
| has not voted during this election.
Sec. 7. The State Constables, and other
peace officers of each County, are required
| to be present during the whole time that the
polls are kept opened, and until the election
| is completed; and they shall prevent all in
reference with the Managers, and see that
! there is no interruption Of good order. Il
! there should be more than one polling place
in any County, the State Constable is EN-.
| powered and directed to make such assign
ment Of his deputies, and other peace off.
GERS, to such polling-places as may, in his
| judgment, best subServe the purposes o!
| quiet and order.
SEC. 8. The voting shall be by ballot.
which shall contain written or printed, OF
| partly written and partly printed, the names
| of the persons voted for, and the offices to
| which such persons are intended to be cho-
contents; and such ballot shall be deposited
in a box to be constructed, kept and dis,
posed of as hereinafter provided.
SEC. g. There shall be one general ticket
| on which shall be the names Of the persons
voted for as Representatives in Congress, and
State, Circuit and County officers.
SEC. 10. The Commissioners Of Election
shall provide one box for each election pre-
| cinct. An opening shall be made in the lid
of such box not larger than shall be sufh
cient for single ballot to be inserted therein
at one time, through which each ballot re-
ceived shall be inserted by the person voting
and by no other; each box shall be provided
with q sufficient lock, and such box shall be
publicly opened and inspected to see that ii
is empty and secure, and then locked just
before the opening of the poll, and the keys
returned to the Managers. and shall not be
| opened during the election. Each box for
such precinct shall be labelled as follows
Congress, estate, "Circuit," and "Coun-
ty Officers"
SEC. II. Each Clerk of the poll shall keep
poll list, which shall contain one column
headed, Names Of Voters" and the name
Of each elector voting shall be entered by the
Clerk in such column.
SEC Il. At the close of the election the
Managers and Clerk shall Immediately pro-
ceed publicly to open the ballot box and
count the ballots therein, 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 re-
| ouire. IF, in counting, two or more like
ballots shall be found folded together COM
nactlv. only one shall be counted and the
others destroyed; but if they bear different
names the same shall be destroyed and not
counted. If more ballots shall be found on
openine the box than there are names on the
poll list, all the ballots shall be returned to
the box and thoroughly mixed together, and
one of the Managers or the Clerk, without
| seeing the ballots, shall 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 thereafter the
Chairman Of the Board Of Managers;, or one
of them, to be designated in writing by the
Board, Shall deliver to the Commissioners
of Election the poll list, the boxes contain
ing the ballots, and written statement of
the result of the election in his precinct
SEC. 13. The returns of the election Of
Governor and Lieutenant Governor shall be
sealed up by the Managers OF Election ID
their respective counties, and transmitted
by mail to the seat Of government, directed
to the Secretary Of State, who shall deliver
them to the Speaker of the House Of Repre-
sentatiyes at the next ensuing session OF the
General Assembly, and a duplicate of said
returns shall be fled with the Clerks Of the
Courts of said counties, whose duty it shall
be to forward to the Secretary of State Ger
tilted CODY thereof, upon Being notified that
the returns previously forwarded by mail
have not been received at his Office.
SEC. ID. The Commissioners Of Election
shall meet in some convenient place at the
County seat, within three days after the
close Of the election, and shall proceed to
organize, and shall form the County Board
of CanvasSers. ......
SIC. is. The County Board of Canvassers,
50 organized, shall meet in some convenient
place at the County seat on the Tuesday next
following the election, before one o'clock in
the afternoon of that day. They may ap-
point some competent person as Secretary.
The Chairman shall thcr proceed 10 admins.
ter the constitutional oatL to each mem Der OF
the Board as Canvassers; and shall admins
ter the constitutional oath to the Secretary,
and the Secretary shall administer to the
Chairman the same oath that he shall nave
administered to the other members OF the
Board.
SEC. 16. They shall then proceed to can
vass the statements of the result OF the eiec-
ton made by the several Boards OF Mana.
gers, and shall make such statements thereof
&C tha nature of the election shall reQu ulre,