Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-05-25
Atts ut the 9egislatnre.
OF ELECTIONS.


OF ELECTIONS.
| QUALIFICATION 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.
PART l.
SECTION l. 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 he entitled to vote: Prorided, That
no person, while kept in any alms-house or
asvlum. or of unsOund mind, or confined in
aly public prison, or who shall have been con-
vcted 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 dueling, shall be allowed to vote.
SEC 2. All electors of the State shall be
registered as hereinafter provided; and no
person shall he allowed to vote at any election
| hereafter to be held unless registered as hereln
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 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 per-
son in each county who shall be qualified vo-
ter thereof and who shall hold his office at the
county seat, who shall be known as the Super
visor of Registration of such county, and whose
duty it shall be to supervise the registration OF
such county us herein specified. The said Su-
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 eligible 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 lave 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
|
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
tration may be refused any applicant in such
county.
SEC. 4. The Secretary of State shall, by the
1st March, Anno Domini 1882, cause sutfi-
cient number of registration books and blanks
to be prepared so 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 a separate column on 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 a 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 be made to appear to his
satisfaction that there is 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 a GER
tiicate therefor. That for the purpose of reg
stration, each township as now laid out and
defined be and is hereby declared a 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-
clared 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 books shall be closed,
and not re-opened for registration, except for
the purposes and as herein mentioned until al
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 enti-
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-
tion, until after the said general election, and
ever after the said book shall be opened for
registration of such electors, on the daysabove
mentioned, until the first day of July, preced-
ing 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 Supervisor, which oath the said 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 III his
registration book. He shall make and keep
list of the contested applications for regstra-
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,
| recurring OATH evidence, or BOTH if he deem