The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-01-08
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.
THE NEXT BIG PoIITICAL EVENT
IN THE STATE.
Full Text OF tho Act Providing fDr
the Election OF Delegates-fyery
Voter.ShouId Read This Act.

the Election OF DelegateS-Eyery
Voter. should Read This Act.
Sec. /. That a convention OF the
people of South Carolina Is hereby or
dained to be assembled In the city Of
Columbia on the second Tuesday In
September in the year OF our Lord
1895 for the purpose OF revising,
amending or changing the Constitu-
tton of the State.
Sec. 2. This said convention shall
consist of number of Senators and
Representatives OF which the General
Assembly Is now composed, who shall
be elected at an election held on the
third Tuesday in August Ammo Domini
1895, as hereinafter provided.
Sec. 3. The several counties shall
be entitled to elect and send to the
said convention number Of delegates
equal to the whole number OF Senators
and Representative which said county
Is now entitled to send to the General
Assembly, and the delegates to the
said convention shall be entitled to
the same freedom from arrest in going
to and returning from and while at
tendinding said convention as is grant
ed the members of the Legislature by
existing laws.
Sec. 4. Every male citizen OF the
United States and of this State of the
age OF twenty-one years not laboring
under the disabilities named in the
Constitution of this State, and duly
qualified to vote under the existing
laws of the State, and duly registered
as now required by law, or who, hav-
ing been entitled to register as voter
ut the time of the general registration
of electors in this State, which took
place in the year of our Lord 1892, or a
tany time subsequent thereto, failed
to register at such time as required by
law, or who has become citizen of
this State and who will register as
hereinafter provided in such cases,
shall beeentitled to vote for delegates
to said convention.
Sec. s. Every person entitled to vote
for delegates to said convention shall
be eligible to seat therein.
Sec. 6. That on the first Monday of
March, in the year of our Lord 1895,
the Supervisor of Registration OF
each county shall, at the county seat
thereof, open his books OF registration,
and shall hold the same open for
eighteen calendar days thereafter, be-
tween the hours of 10 o'clock in the
forenoon and o'clock in the afternoon,
except Charleston, Beaufort and
Itichland counties, which shall be
from 10 II. IN. to 6 p. M, during which
time any elector then or heretofore at
any time entitled to register as a
qualified voter, or who has become
citizen of this State, and be, during
the time herein fixed for such regis
tration, and also on the days now fixed
by law for registration, entitled to reg
ister as such as hereinafter provided;
and any elector having boon hereto
fore duly registered, or having since
changed his residence, or having lost
his certificate, shall be entitled to
have the same transferred or renewed
as now provided by law.
Sec. Z. ANY elector who shall have
been entitled to register at the general
registration in the year OF our Lord
1892, or ut any time subsequent there
to, and who failed to register at such
time as required by law, and who shall
make application under, oath, in ac-
cordance with q printed form to be
prepared by the Attorney General,
setting forth in each case tile fact, to-
wit: The full name, age, occupation
and residence of the applicant at the
time of the said general registration,
or at any time thereafter when the
sale applicant became entitled to reg
lister, and the place or places Of his
residence since the time when he be-
came entitled to register, which affi-
dayit shall be supported by the affida-
Wits Of two reputable citizens, who
were each of the age Of twenty eonc
years on the 30th day Of June, Ammo
Domino 1892, or at the time the said
applicant became entitled thereafter
to register, or any elector who has be-
come citiZon Of this State by moving
into the same, according to the Con-
stitution Of the State, and who shall
make application under oath, stating
the time of his moving into the State
and his place of residence since living
in the State, which application shall
be supported by the affidavit of two
reputable citizens, who were twenty
one years of age at the time the appli
such applicant shall be allowed to reg
lister as voter, and to have issued to
him certificate as duly qualified
elector in the manner and form now
provided by law, and be entitled to
vote at said election for delegates to
said convention.
Sec. 8. AT such election the Super
visor Of Registration shall furnish the
managers at each precinct with one of
the registration books for such pre-
cinct, for the care and custody for
which the managers receiving the
same shall be responsible, and which
they shall return to the Supervisor of
Registration within three days after
the close of the election, and no elector
shall be entitled to vote whose name
is not registered as as,hereinbefore or al
ready provided by law, and who does
not produce his registration certificate
Mt the polls where he offers to vote.
Sec. .. For the purpose Of said cleo
tion it shall be the duty of the Cover
nor, and he is hereby authorized and
empowered, at least thirty days before
election, to appoint for each county
three commissioners of election, which
commissioners shall assemble at the
county seat at least two weeks before
the date of election, and organize
Shemselves into board of commission
ers by electing one of their number as
chairman and take the oath prescribed
in Section 30 of Article III of the Con-
stitution and the oath against duelllng,
and they may elect some suitable per-
son as clerk, and the chairman shall
administer to him the oaths aforesaid,
and all of said oaths shall be filed In
the office of the Clerk of Court of
General Sessions and Common Pleas,
and If there be no such duly qualified
clerk in any county, then in the Office
of the Secretary OF State. The said
commissioner shall appoint three
managers OF election for each precinct
in his county as now provided by law,
and notify them by mail of said ap-
pointment; and shall also have pub
Iished notice of election and names
of managers, as now provided by law
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