The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-08-18
Rules and Regulations for
Primary Elections for
Clarendon County.

Clarendon County.
l. On Tuesday the 31st day of Aug.
1856, there shall be held at the place
Of meeting of every Democratic club
in the county, a primary election fol
the nomination of persons for the sew
cral offices to be filled; and the pre-
siding officer of each club shall cause
two certified copies of the club roll
to be prepared and closed ten days
before the day appointed as aforesaid
for such primary election; one copy
of which said roll shall be immediate
" transmitted to the chairman of the
County Executive Committee, and
the other copy shall be delivered to
the Managers of the club poll on the
! day of said election, and before the
polls are opened.
2. The polls shall be opened
at 10 o'clock in the forenoon and be
kept open without intermission until
3 o'clock in the afternoon, when they
shall be closed.
3. At each club poll there shall be
three managers of election to be APP
pointed by the County Executive Com
! mittee.
I. The Executive Committee shall
furnish ballot box with lock and
kew for each club polling place, for
the secure keeping of which the man
ayers shall be responsible. Immedi-
ately before opening the polls the
managers and their clerk shall sever
ally subscribe to the following pledge:
Il solennly pledge myself on honor
CHAT will faithfully peform all the
duties, incident to my position as
manager of the primary election, to
''the best of my ability" The clerk
using the term clerk instead OF man
ager.
5. On opening the polls the ballot
box shall be emptied of all contents
and exhibited thus emptied to the by
ISLANDERS, and while so emptied, be
closed and locked and shall SO remain
closed and locked until the polls are
closed.
6. The managers shall keep poll
list and for this purpose shall appoint
clerk.
7. The ballots used shall be either
printed or written or part printed and
part written, and shall contain the
names Of the persons voted for, and
the offices for which the persons so
voted for are candidates.
8. The qualification of voters at
such primary election, shall, in addi-
ton to membership in the Democratic
club in which they propose to vote, be
in all respects such as would qualify
such persons to vote in the General
Election for the State and County Off
GERS. Provided that no colored mem
Der of any Democratic club, who did
not vote the Democratic ticket at
the General Election of 1884, shall be
permitted to vote at such primary
election.
8. When for any cause a voter shall
be challenged, the managers may &C
cept or reject the voter thus offered.
on either case it shall be the duty cf
the managers to have entered on their
poll List a statement of the circum-
stances and of their action therein,
and also the Dames of the candidates
voted for, or offered to be voted for by
the party challenged. The matter
shall then be decided by the County
Executive Committee.
10. On the close of the polls the
managers shall proceed Immediately,
continuously, and publicly to count
the votes.
II. When the votes shall have been
counted, the managers shall make out
in duplicate, returns showing the
number of votes cast, for each person
voted for, the office for which he is
voted for, and the total number of
votes cast, and shall deposit one of
said returus in the ballot box, with
the votes, and file the other as one of
the records of the club.
The managers shall certify to the
correctness of such returns.
u. The ballot box containing the
ballots, the poll list, certified roll of
the CLUB which shall have been used
by the managers, and the certified re-
turn of the managers, together with
any other paper or papers concerning
or affecting such primary election,
shall be delivered by one of the Man
ayers, securely locked, together with
the key thereof, to the Chairman of the
Executive Committee on Thursday
the 2nd day OF September 1886; and on
Friday the 3rd day of September
1856 the County Executive Commit
tee shall meet at Manning in said
County at II o'clock, noon, and shall
then and there open the ballot boxes
50 delivered to the chairman OF said
committee and shall canvass and
aggregate such returns and
shall Immediately thereafter publish
and declare the result of such election
and shall take such further action
therein as the nature of such result
may make necessary.