The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1895-12-18

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life qualified electors unless disQuah-
fed by the other provisions Of this
article. The certificate OF the clerk O
court or secretary OF state shall be
sufficient evidence to establish the
right of said citizens to any subse-
quent registration and the franchise
under the limitations herein imposed.
(bj Auy person who shall apply for
registration after January lst, 1898, II
otherwise qualified, shall be registered;
provided, that he can both read and
write any section Of this Constitution
submitted to him by the registration
officer, or can show that he, owns and
has paid oil taxes co!lectible during
the previous year on property IN this
State assessed ut $500 or more.
y(e) Managers of elections shall re-
auire of every elector offering to vote
at any election, before allowing him to
vote, proof of the payment Of ell
taxes, including poll tax, assessed
against him and collectible during the
previous year. The production of q
certificate or of the receipt OF the
officer authorized to collect such taxes
shall be conclusive proof of the pay
ment thereof.
(D The general assembly shall pro-
vide for issuing to each duly registered
elector certificate Of registration and
shall provide for the renewal of such
certificate when lost, mutilated or
destroyed, if the applicant is still
qualified elector under the provisions
of this Constitution, or if ne has beer
registered as provided in subsection
(c).
Sec. 5. Any person denied registra-
ton shall have the right to appeal to
the court of common pleas or any
Judge thereof, and thence to the
supreme court, to determine his right
to vote under the limitation imposed
in this article, and on such appeal the
hearing shall be de novo and the
general assembly shall provide by law
for such appeal and for the correction
of illegal and fraudulent registration,
voting and all other crimes against the
election laws.
Sec. 6. The following persons are
disqualified from being registered or
voting:
First. Persons convicted Of burg
larry, arson, obtaining goods or money
under false pretenses, perjury, forgery,
robbery, bribery, adultery, bigamy,
wife beating, housebreaking, receiving
stolen goods, breach of trust with
fraudulent intent, fornicstion, sodomy,
incest, assault with intent to ravish,
miscegenation, larceny or crimes
against the election laws; provided,
that the pardon of the governor shall
remove such disqualification.
Second. Persons who are idiots, in
sane, paupers supported at the public
expense, and persons confined in any
public prison.
Sec. 7. For the purpose of voting,
no person shall be deemed to have
gained or lost residence by reason of
his presence or absence while employ
ed in the service of the United States,
nor while engaged in the navigation
of the waters of this State, or of the
United States, or the high seas, nor
while student of any institution Of
learning.
Sec. s. The general assembly shall
provide by law for the registration of
all qualified electors and shall pre-
scribe the manner of holding elections
and of ascertaining the results of the
same; provided, at the first registra-
ton under this Constitution, and until
the 1st of January, 1898, the registra-
tion shall he conducted by board
of three disrceet persons in each
county. to be appointed by the gov
ernor, by and with the advice and
consent of the senate. For the first
registration to be provided for under
this Constitution, the registration
books shall be kept open for at least
six consecutive weeks, and thereafter
from time to time at least one week in
each month, up to 80 days next pre-
ceding the first election to be held IN
der this Constitution. The registra-
ton books shall be public records
open to the inspection Of any citizen
at ali times.
Sec. 9. The general assembly shall
provide for the establishment of pol
ling precincts in the several counties
OF the State and those now existing
shall SO continue until abolished or
changed. Each elector shall be required
to vote at his own precinct, but pro-
vision shall be made for his transfer to
another precinct upon his change Of
residence.
Sec. 10. The general assembly shall
provide by law for the regulation Of
party primary elections and Furnishing
fraud at the same.
Sec. II. The registration books shall
close at least 80 days before an cleo
ton, during which time transfers and
registration shall not be legal; pro-
vided, persons who Will become OF age
during that period shall be entitled to
registration before the books are
closed.
\ Sec. u. Electors in municipal cleo
tons shall possess the qualifications