Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-10-20
ELECTION NOTICE
For State and County Officers.

AN ELECTION will be held on TUESDAY,
"A THE SECOND DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1886,
YORK COUNTY, for the following Officers, to
wit:
Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary Of
State, Attorney-General, Comptroller, General
er, State Superintendent of Education, Four
Representatives to the lower branch of the Leg
islature Probate Judge, School Commissioner,
and three County Commissioners. -
And at the same time and places, vote will
be taken on the following two Constitutional
amendments:
Tie first is to amend Article TX, Section ID,
and reads as follows:
"Any debt contracted by the State shall be by
loan on State bonds or stock, of amounts not
less than one hundred dollars each, bearing in
terest payable semi-annually, and payable with
in fifty years after the final passage of the law
authorizing such debt. A correct registry of all
such bonds or stock shall be kept by the Treas
urer, in numerical order, 80 as always to exhibit
the number and amount unpaid and to whom
The change contemplated by this amendment
ia to make the bonds mot less than $780, in
stead Of mot less than $780, as the law now Is {;
and to change the time within which the debt is
to be paid from 20. years to so years:
The Second is to substitute the following for
Sections four and five of Article II, of the Con-
stitution, and reads as follows: -,
s.sSectio1 4. The House of Representatives shall
consist of l4 members, to be apportioned among
the several counties according to the number OF
inhabitants contained in each. An enumeration
of the inhabitants for this purpose shall be made
in 1891, and shall be made in the course OF every
tenth year thereafter in such manner as shall be
by law directed: Provded, That the General AS
sembly may at any time, in its discretion, adopt
the Immediately preceding United States census
as true and correct enumeration OF the inhab-
'itants of the several counties, and make the ap-
portionment and assignment of Representatives
among the several counties according to said
enumeration: Provided, howe0er, This amend
ment shall not prevent the General Assembly
from providing Tor an enumeration and appor.
tionment prior to 1881, in the manner proVlded
by law" !,
expense Of taking the census by adopting the
census of the United States:
The polls will be opened at 7 O'Clock, A. NJ,
and kept open without intermission or adjourn
,nent until 6 o'clock, P. M, at which time the
votes will be publicly counted.
The managers shall administer to each person
offering to vote, an oath that he is qualified to
vote at said election, according to the Constitu-
ton of this State, and that he has not already
voted in said election.
The following named persons have been ap-
pointed managers of election for State and Coun-
ty Officers, to wit:
Bethel-S. D. Stowe, S. A. Glenn, w. E. Camp
BIairsville-J T. Whitesides, H. J. sherer, R.
T. higgins. y,
Blacks StatlOn-N M. CaluWell, w Ill. 4h. Nlc-
Gill; VIM. r. Davies.
Bnffalo-R. E. Porter, Jonathan Moore, c. G..
Webber. W,
Clay Hill. T. Wood, R. G. McCaw, A. A.
Coates Tavern-John D. Cornwell, H. NJ.
Lineberger, J. Wylie Roddey; ,,
Clover-W. NJ. Matthews, John Knox, Aimrl
Carroll ", c.,..,
Fort Mill. A. Withers, C. 7. Crook, D. G..
Kimbrell. wv r. ,,,.;.o
sides, J. n McGill. ~, Al,
McConnellsville-J. A. Erwin, w. n. Asne,
J. Oscar Moore. Gillian d 1or.,
Rock Hill~J. J. Waters, w. &. Reid, w. S.
May. ~ 7, 11ou
per- John A. Glenn. ... -
Yorkville-J. +. Lowry, J. Bolivar scott' II.
J. Withers.
Ms- One of the managers from each OF the poll
ing precincts above named, is hereby required 10
meet the Commissioners of Election at the COuTt lou r.
House in Yorkville. on SATURDAY,, The
3OTH DAY OF OCTOBER, 1885, to receive IN,
structions for conducting the election on the 2nd
day of November, 1886, and to receive the ballot
boxes. Come prepared to take the boxes-four
HENRY MASSEY, Cham Commissioners
W. E. ERWIN, OF
JOHN L. RA1NE4. Election.
October 20 ~ II