The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-08-14
Election Notice.

The State of South Carolina.
COUNTY OF ABBEVILLE.
AN ELECTION WILL BE HELD
at the several voting precincts in Abbe-
Vile County on the
Third Tuesday in August (2Oth)
for the purpose of electing
SIX DELEGATES TO THE CON-
STITUTIONAL CONVENTION.
The election to be held in accordance
with an Act calling the Constitution
al Convention passed by the General
Assembly in 1894. ,
The Board of Managers should meet
and organize by electing one Of their
number chairman and some suitable
person as clerk.
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 Constitu-
ton of this State, and duly qualified to
vote under the existing laws of the
State, and duly registered as now re-
quired by law, ,or who having been en-
titled to register as voter at the time
of the general registration of electors
in this State which took in the year OF
our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and eighty-two, or at any time subse-
ouent thereto, failed to register at such
time as required by law, or who has
become citizen of this State and Wto
shall register as hereinafter provided
in such cases, shall be entitled to vote
for delegates to said Convention.
The polls shall be open at eight
o'clock in the forenoon and closed at
four o'clock in the afternoon and kept
open continuously without intermis-
sion or adjournment, and the managers
shall administer to each person offer
ing to vote an oath that he is qualified
to vote at this election according to the
constitution and laws of this State,
and that he has not voted at this elec-
ton.
At each precinct space or enclosure
such as the managers shall deem prop
er 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 9TH
er for his exit, as a polling place. But
one voter shall be allowed to enter any
polling place at one time, and no one
except the managers shall be allowed
to speak to the voter while in the poll
ing place casting his vote.
Any neglect or refusal to perform
the duties imposed upon. managers is
punishable by fine of not more than
one thousand dollars or Imprisonment
for not more than one year.
In case of the failure Of any of the
managers to attend, any one or more
managers are authorized to appoint
other persons to fill and complete the
Board of Managers.
The following is list of the respec-
tive polling places and managers at
the respective polling places, to-wit:
ABBEvILLE.
J.L. Mcmillan.
J. s. Cochrane.
Jno. L. Hill.
MT. CARMEL.
w. L. Miller.
]. r. Tarrant.
S. c. Riley.
BRADLEY.
A. J. Pounds.
G. P. Hughes.
Jno. Young.
TROY.
F. A. Cook.
r. A. Crawford.
r. r. Puckett.
MCCORMICK.
Thos. A. Box.
J. F. Edmunds.
Wess Jennings.
CLATwoRTHY's X ROADS.
Alf. Lyon.
Jno. Brown.
Jim Crawford.
HODGES.
J. D. Pace.
G.. w. Rainwater.
w. R. Mundy.
coKEsBURY.
G. B. Riley.
S. G. Merriman.
+. e. Connor.
GREENWOOD.
P. D. Klugh.
J. w. Fife.
J. M. Majors.
NINETY-sIx.
#. G.. Thomas.
w. T. Huff.
A. w. Hill.
DoNALDs.
L. A. Shannon.
Jno. Austin.
f. S. Waldrop.
DUE WEST.
NJ. S. Ashley.
Jno. Magill.
a. r. Ellis.
ANTREvILLE.
J. H. Power.
Lamar Clinkscales.
.. b. KNOX.
LowNDEsvILLE.
j. G. Thomas.
G.. l.. brennan.
RI. B. Clinkscales.
MAGNOLIA.
Robert Hester.
r. o. Bell.
Jno. Sprouss.