Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-02-09
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THE ELECTION BILL.
Full Text OF Its More Important Prerislons.
The following are the more important pro.
visions of the Election Bill, as finally passed
by both houses of the General Assembly:
SECTION /. All male citizens of the United
States, of the age of twenty-one years and up
wards not labOring under the disabilities OF
the Constitution, without distinction of race
or color or former condition, who shall have
been a resident of the State for one year, and
in the county in 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 almshouse or asylum,
or of unsound mind, or confined in any public
prison, or shall have been convicted of treason.
murder, robbery of the goods or chattels OF
another with or without violence, whether
taken from the person or otherwise, or of
duelling, shall be allowed to vote.
SEC. 2. All electors of the State shall be
registered as hereinafter provided, and no per-
son shall be allowed to vote at any election
hereafter to be held unless registered as herein
required. ..,.....-. .....-.. 49,
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 it's
next session, and subject to removal by the
Governor, by and with the advice and consent
of the Senate, one competent and discreet
person in each county, who shall be qualified
oha11 ho11 10 off of
the county seat, who shall be known as the
supervisor of registration Of such county, and
whose duty it shall be to supervise the reg
istration Of electors of such county as here
in specified. The said supervisor of registration
shall keep record of all the official acts and
proceedings. The term of his Office shall be
for two years from the date of his appointment,
who shall continue in Office until their success
sors are appointed and qualified, and he shall
not be eligible to any other Office during the
term for which he is appointed. ~ .
The Governor shall have the authority to
appoint an assistant supervisor in case of the
inability 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 actu-
ally employed. The Governor shall also ap-
point two assistant supervisors of election who
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sit with the supervisor in all cases where the
supervisor shall refuse to register the applicant.
SEC. T. The secretary of State, shall, by the
1st of March, Ammo Domini 1882, cause sufi-
cient number of registration books and blanks
to be prepared so that there shall be two OF
the 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 to 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
Nav and June next, shall make full and COM
plete registration of all qualified voters in the
following manner: He shall give three weeks
notice of time and place Of registration by
advertising IN one or more of the 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 clos
ing the registration at 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 respective pre-.
cincts, and who shall then and there present
themselves for that purpose, entering the
names of such voters in his book for their
proper precinct. At the conclusion of the
registration hereinbefore provided for the su-
peryisor of registration shall revise the list
and in case it be made to appear to his salts
faction that there is a qualified voter in pre-
cinct who has failed 10 register, he may upon
such evidence as he may think necessary, in
his discretion, permit the name of such voter
to be placed on said list, and to issue certif.
cate therefor. That for the purpose of regis.
tratiOn. each township as now laid out and de.
fined be, and is hereby, declared registration
precinct, and in those counties in which there
are no such townships, that the parish as
formerly known and defined be, and is hereby,
declared such precinct, and in the cities OF
Columbia and Charleston each ward shall be
a registration precinct.
SEC. 6. When the registration shall have
been completed, the books shall be closed, and
not reopened for registration, except for the
PURPOSES and as hereafter mentioned, until
after the the next general election for State
officers After the said next general election
the said books shall I've reopened for registra'
tion of such persons as shall thereafter become
entitled to register OH the first Monday in each
month. to and until the first Monday in July,
inclusive, preceding the following general elec,
ton, upon which last named day the same
shall be closed and not reOpened for registra.
tiOn until after the SAID general elecClon, anu
ever after the said book shall be opened fol
registration of such electors on the days above
mentioned, until the first day OF July preceding
a general election, when the same shall be
closed as aforesaid until the said general elec'
tion shall have taken place.
SEC. 7. 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 su'
pervisor which oath the said supervisor Is
hereby authorized and required to administer
that the facts then and there stated by him as
to his name, age, occupation, and place OF res
dence, and duration of residence i'll county
and State, are true, and thereupon the said
supervisor shall enter the name, age, occupa'
tion and place of residence of the electOr in the
appropriate column in the registration book
He shall make out and keep list of the con-
tested applications for registration which he
rejects, and report the same for hearing before
the assistant supervisors heretofore required. :,
Sec s. The supervisor of registration Shall
determine as to the legal qualifications OF any
applicant for registration by summary process
recurring oath, evidence, or both, If he deem
proper, subject to revision by the assistant
, Supervisors and himself in all cases where ne
has refused to register the applicant From