Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-08-07
Notice of Election


MANAGERS OF ELECTION TO ELECT
DELEGATES TO CONSTITUTIONAL
CONVENTION.
AN ELECTION will be held at
the several precincts established
by law in Edgefeld County on
Tuesday, August Goth 1895. lor
the following described officers, to
wit: Six co delegates to State
Constitutional Convention The
polls will open at s o'clock a. m,
and close at 4 o'clock p. H., at the
close of the election the managers
shall Immediately proceed to pub
licly count the ballots.
Within three days thereafter the
chairman OF the board Of manag-
ers, or one OF them 10 be designa-
led by the hoard in writing shall
deliver 10 the commissioners cf
election the box containing the
containing the poll list, the ballots
and a written statement OF the re-
suit of the election at his precinct.
The managers shall administer 20
each persen offering to VOC an
oath that he is qualified to vote II
said election: according to tie
Constitution of the State and that
he has not already voted III said
election.
One of The managers hereinaf-
ter appointed shall, previous to lie
day Of election, procure from the
commissioners of election ,he bal
lot box, papers and registration
book for his precinct. The board
of managers for each precinct
shall meet on Or before the day Of
election and organize themselves
into Il board Of managers by elect
ing one Of their number chairman
and some suitable person is clerk.
The chairman may then adnoInis-
ter the oath prescribed in article
II, section 80, of the constitution
and the oath against duelling to
each member of the board and
the clerk, and the clerk may in
turn administer the same oaths to
the chairman. The said oa,hs may
be administered by any other Off
Ger authorized to administer oaths,
and shall be filed in the office Of
the clerk of Cel.rte=off-Coranlon
1PIeas and General Sessions.
The voting shall be by ballot,
which ballot shall be of plain white
paper two and a half inches wide
by five inches long, clear and sven
cut, without ornament, description,
mutilation, symbol, erasure, or
mark of any kind whatsoever ex-
cept the names Of the persons vo-
ted for, which names shall be writ
ten or printed, or partly written
or partly printed, aid if printed,
in black ink, and such ballot shall
be folded so as to conceal the name
or names thereon, and SO folded
shall be deposited in a box to be
constructed, kept and disposed of
as hereinafter provided, and no
ballot of any other description
found in any ballot-boX shall be
counted.
At each precinct space of in
closure, such as the managers
deem proper and sufficient, shall
be rallied off, or otherwise provided
with an opening for the entrance
of the voter at one end or side,
and an opening at the other end
for his exit, as a polling place.
But one voter shall he allowed to
enter any polling place at time,
and no one except the managers
shall be allowed to speak to the
voter while in the polling place
casting his vote.
Each clerk of the poll shall keep
a poll list, which shall contain
column headed Names of Voters"
and the name Of each elector vo-
ting shall pe entered in such
column.
If, in counting, two or more like
| ballots shall he found folded to-
gether compactly, only one shall
be counted, and the others destroy
ed, but if they have different
names, all shall be destroyed and
n none counted. If more ballots
shall he found in the box upon
opening it than there are names
on the poll list, all the ballots
shall be returned to the box and
throughly mixed together, and
one of the managers or clerk shall,
without seeing the ballots, draw
therefrom and Immediately de-
stroy as many ballots as there are
in excess of the number of names
on the poll list.
The following named persons
have been appointed managers of
the election for delegates to Con-
stitutional Convention, to wit:
Edgefield-T Lanham, W E
Dobey, i P Covar, J ? Bates,
clerk.
Meeting Street. Il Cogburn,
J S Mcdowell, E l. Stevens, NJ B
Hamilton, clerk.
Traps Store-W II Stallworth,
clerk, A P QUITS, r P Holloway,
j " Alton.
Pleasant Lance II + Will
liams, w A Strom, G G West, A D
Zimmerman, clerk.