Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1882-02-09
The Election Bill.
FULL TEXT OF IT'S MORE IMPORTANT PRO
VISIONS.

The following arc the moro important
provisions of the Election Bill, us finally
passed by both Houses of the General AS
scmbly.
SECTION L. All male citizens of the
United States, Of the ago of twenty one
years and upwards, not laboring under tho
disabilities of the Constitution, without
distinction of race Oh color or former cou.
dition, who shall have been a resident OF the
State for one year, and in tho county iu
which he offers to vote for sixty days next
preceding any general election, shall be
entitled to vote: Provided, That no person,
while kept in any ulmshousc or asylum, or
Of unsouud mind, or confined in any public
prison, or shall have been convicted Of
treason, murder, robbery of the goods or
chattels Of auotherwith or without violence,
whether taken frcm the person or other
wise, or Of lueiling, shall be allowed to
vote.
SEC g. All electors of the State shall be
registered as hereinafter provided, and no
person shall be allowed to vote ut any cleo
ton hereafter to be held unless registered as
herein required.
SEC. 3. On or before the first day of March
next, and on or before the same day in every
second year thereafter, the Governor shall
appoint, by and with the advice and con-
sent of tho Senate, if in session, and if not
crnor, by and with tho advice and consent
Of tho Senate, one competent and discreet
person in each county, who shall be quail.
fed voter thereof, and who shaI hold his
Office at the county seat, who shall be
known as the supervisor of registration of
such county, and whose duty it shall be to
supervise the registration Of tho electors of
such county as herein specified. The said
supervisor Of registration shall keep re.
cord of his official acts and proceedings.
The term of his Office shall DO for two years
from the date of his appointment, who shall
continue 10 oflco until their successors are
appointed and qualified, aud he shall not be
eligible to any other Office during tho term
for which he is appointed
The Governor shall have the authority
to appoint M assistant supervisor in case of
the inability Of the supervisor to act, who,
when go appointed, shall have all the pow
crs and be charged with tho duties of the
supervisory and shall receive five dollars
per diem when actually employed. Tho
Governor shall also appoint two assistant
supervisors Of election who shall serve
without compensation shall sit with
the supervisor in oil cases where the
supervisor shall refuse to register tie ap.
plicant.
SEQ. 4. Tho Secretary Of State shall BY
the lst March, Ammo Douini 1882, cuuso a
sufficient number of registration books and
blanks to bo prepared, so that there shall
be two of the said books for cach precinct
in each county, which books shall be ruled
in columns with proper headings, go as to
indicate tho name, ngc, occupation and
place of residence Of each elector, with
separate column to the right side of tho
page for all such entries as may be neccs-
sary.
SEC. s. After tho approval of this Act,
the supervisor of registration, in the months
of May and June next, shall make o full
and complete registration Of all qualified
voters in tho following manner; no shall
give three weeks notice of tho times and
places of registration by advertising in one
or moro county papers, or by posting in a
public place in each voting precinct where
no paper is published in the county. The
time for registration shall not bo less than |
three days nt each registration preoinot
Immediately after closing the registration at