Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-05-18
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OF ELECTIONS.
QUALIFICATION AND REGISTRATION OF
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OF ELECTIONS. E
OUALIFICATION AND REGISTRATION OF
ELECTORS.
AN ACT to amend Title II, (entitled) "Of Elec-
tions" of Part I, (entitled) "Of the Internal Ad
minstration of the Government" Of the Gen.
eral Statutes.
SECTION 1. Every male citizen of the Uni
ted States, of the age of twenty-one years and
upwards, not laboring under the disabilities
named in the Constitution, without distinction
of race or 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 cleo
ton, Shall be entitled to vote: Prorided, That
no person, while kept i'll any alms-house or
asylum, or of unsound mind, or confined in
any public prison, or who shall have been con-
victed of treason, murder, robbery of the goods
or chattels of another with or without vio-
lence, whether taken from the person or 9TH
| erwise. or of dueing, shall be allowed to vote.
SEC. 2. All electors of the State shall be
registered as hereinafter provided; and no
| person shall be allowed to vote at any election
hereafter to be held unless registered us 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 ap-
point, by and with the advice and consent OF
the Senate, if in session, and if not in session,
subject to the approval Of the Senate at its
next session, and subject to removal by the
Governor, by and with the advice and consent
of the Senate, one competent and discreet per-
son in each county who shall be a qualified vo-
ter thereof, and who shall hold his office at the
county seat, who shall be known as the Super
visor of Registration ofsuch county, and whose
duty it shall be to supervise the registration OF
such county as herein specified. The said ST.
pervisor of Registration shall keep a record of
all his official acts and proceedings. The term
of his office shall be for two years from the
date of his appointment he shall continue in
office until his successor shall be appointed and
shall qualify, and he shall not be eliglble,to any
other office during the term for which he is ap-
pointed. @
The Governor shall have the authority to
appoint Deputy Supervisor in case of the in
ability of the Supervisor to act who when SO
appointed shall have all the powers and be
charged with the duties of the Supervisor, and
shall receive five dollars per diem when actual
ly employed.
The Governor shall also appoint two Assist
ant Supervisors of Election who shall serve
without compensation, who shall sit with the
Supervisor of Election in the determination
of all cases of contested registration in which
| the Supervisor shall refuse to register the ap-
plicant the three Supervisors of Registration
Shall sit for as many days, beginning on the
second Tuesday in July, as may be necessary
! to hear and determine all cases in which regis
| trution may he refused any applicant in such
| county.
SEC. 4. The Secretary of State shall, by the
| lst March, Ammo Domini 1882, cause sutfi-
cient number of registration books and blanks
to he prepared 80 that there shall be two of
said books for each precinct in each county,
which books shall be ruled in columns, with
proper headings, so as to indicate the name,
| age, occupation, and place of residence of each
elector, with separate column OH the right
side of the page for such entries as may be
! necessary.
SEC. 5. After the approval Of this Act, the
Supervisor of Registration, in the months of
May and June next, shall make full and
complete registration of all qualified voters, in
the following manner He shall give three
weeks notice of the times and places of regis
tration, by advertising in one or more county
papers, or by posting in public place in each
voting precinct, where no paper is published
in the county. The time for registration shall
| not be less than one nor more than three days
at each registration precinct. Immediately
after closing the registration at the precincts,
| he shall open his books at the county seat, to
correct errors in registration, and to register
such electors as failed to register at their re-
spective precincts, and who shall then and
there present themselves for that purpose, en-
tering the names Of such voters in his book for
their proper precincts. At the conclusion of
the registration hereinbefore provided for, the
Supervisor of Registration shall revise the
list and in case it he made to appear to his
satisfaction that there is a qualified voter IN
precinct who has failed to register, he may,
upon such evidence as he may think necessary,
in his discretion, permit the name of such VO-
ter to be placed on said list, and issue GER
ti6cate therefor. That for the purpose of reg
istration, each township as now laid out and
defined be and is hereby declared registration
precinct and in those counties in which there
are no such townships, that the parish as for
merly known and defined be and is hereby de-
cared such precinct, and in the cities OF Col
umbia and Charleston each ward shall be a
registration precinct
SEC. 6. When the said registration shall
have been completed, the booksShall be closed,
and not re-opened for registration, except for
the purposes and as herein mentioned until af-
ter the next general election for State officers.
After the said next general election the said
books shall be re-opened for registration OF
such persons as shall thereafter become entl-
tied to register on the first Monday in each
month, to and until the first Monday of July,
inclusive, preceding the following general
election, upon which last named day the same
shall be closed and not re-opened for registra-
ton, until after the said general election, and
ever after the said book shall be opened for
registration of such electors, on the days above
mentioned, until the first day of July, preced-
ing general election, when the same shall be
closed as aforesaid, until the said general elec-
tion shall have taken place.
SEC. T. Each elector in the State shall be
required, at the time advertised for his pre-
cinct as hereinbefore provided, to appear be-
fore the Supervisor of Registration at the
place advertised, and make oath before the
said Supervisor, which oath the sfid Supervi-
sor is hereby authorized and required to ad-
minister, that the facts then and there to be
stated by him as to his name, age, occupation,
and place of residence, and duration of resi-
dence in the county and State are true, and
thereupon the said Supervisor shall enter the
name, age, occupation, and place of residence
of the elector in the appropriate column in his
registration book. lie shall make and keep
list of the contested applications for registra-
| tiOns which he rejects, and report the same for
hearing before the Assistant Supervisors as
hereinbefore required.
SEC. s. The Supervisor of Registration shall
determine as to the legal qualifications of any
applicant for registration bysummary process,
| requiring oath, evidence, or both, if he deem
proper, subject to revision by the Assistant
Supervisors and himself in all cases where he
has refused to register an applicant. From
the decision of the Supervisors of Registration,
any applicant who is rejected shall have the
right to a review thereof by the Circuit Court,
provided he give notice in writing to the Su-
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