The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-04-24
THE REGISTRATION LAW.
JUDGE GOFF ISSUES AN ORDER RE-
STRAlNlNG A SUPERVISOR.

JUOGE 0OTF .lSOOCO AN OHOGh hE
sTRAlNlNG a SUPERVISOR.
tional Convention Act The Hearing tc
Take Place in Columbia May 2.
COLUMBIA, S. c., April 19.-The first
move in the matter of testing the reg
istration laws of South Carolina in the
United States Courts has been made,
and the parties moving to have the
courts pass upon them have been sue,
cessful thus far. Judge Nathan Goff
of the United States Circuit Court has
granted an order in the matter that is
very far reaching in its effects.
Messrs. Douglass & Obear, repre-
senting the parties desiring the test,
appeared before Judge Golf, in the
United States Circuit Court at Clarks-
burg, West Va, on Wednesday and
presented their bill for an injunction
against Supervisor Green of this coun-
ty, upon which the restraining order
and rule to show cause referred to
was granted. - The bill for injunction,
which was presented read as follows:
United States Of America. South Caro-
lima District-In the Circuit Court,
Fourth Circuit-In Equity.
Lawrence P. Mills VS.. ". Briggs
Green; bill for injunction.
To the judge of the Circuit Court of
the United States for the district Of
South Carolina:
Lawrence p. Mills. citizen Of the
State Of South Carolina and Of the
United States brings this. his bill
against W. Briggs Green. citizen Of
the said State aud United States: And
thereupon your orator complains. aud
says:
/. That this bill is exhibited on be-
half OF your orator, and of all others
citizens of the county of Richland in
! the State Of South Carolina, and Uni
ted States aforesaid. circumStanced
ike your orator in this behalf and
who are 100 numerous 10 be made par
ties hereto.
2. That Your orator was twenty-slX
years OF age on the 4ih day Of Feoru
ary. 1885: that he is resident Of the
precinct of the county OF Richland in
The State of South Carolina: that lie is
male citizen OF the United States:
that he has resided in the State of
South Carolina for more than one year
preceding the last general election :and
he has resided in the said county of
RichIand for more than sixty days
prior to the general election.
3. That your orator is all elector of
the said State of South Carolina. pos
sessing all of the qualifications of an
elector of the most numerous branch
es of the State Legislature, provided
by the Constitution of said State; and
that he is subject to none of the dis
qualifications set forth in the said Con-
stitution; and he is, under the Consti-
tuition and laws of the United States,
duly qualified to vote at all Federal
and State elections held in said pre-
cinct OF Richland county in the State
of South Carolina.
/. That in section known as Sec
ton so of the General Statutes of
South Carolina of 1882 is set forth the
following: All electors of the State
shall be registered as hereinafter pro-
vided; and no person shall be allowed
to vote at any election hereafter to be
held unless registered as hereinafter
required, and that Section one hun
dred and thirty-two Q32) Of the Revi-
sed Statutes of South Caroiua of 1898
is to the same effect and in the follow
ing words: AL electors of this State
shall be registered; and no person
shall be allowed to vote at any election
thereafter to be held, unless he shall
aave heretofore registered in confor-
nifty with the requirements Of chapter
VII, of the General Statutes Of 1882,
and acts amendatory thereof, Or shall
be registered herein required"
That by a section known as Section
ninety-four (9N of the said General
Statutes of 1882 is provided: When
the said registration Gin certain books
to be provided him and made in the
manner provided for in section 93)
shall have been completed, the books
shall be closed, and not reopened for
registration, except for the purposes
and as hereinafter mentioned, until
the next general election for State Of
ficers. After the said next general
election the books shall be opened for
registration of such persons as shall
thereafter become entitled to register,
on the first Monday in each month, to
and until the first Monday in July.
inclusive, preceding the following
general election, upon which last
named day the same shall be closed
and not reopened for registration un-
til after the said general election, and
ever after the said books shall be open
ed for the registration of such electors.
on the days above mentioned. until the
first day of July preceding a general
election, when the same shall be clos
ed as aforesaid until the said general
election shall have taken place" and
section one hundred and thirty-seven
$50 of the said Revised Statutes of |
1898 it is provided: After every gen
eral election the registration books |
shall be opened for registration Of !
such persons as shall thereafter become
entitled 10 register, Oh the first Mon |
day IN each moIth until the first day |!
of July preceding a general election. |
when the same shall be closed until |
such election shall have Ia ken place
+. That the section known as section |;
(90 Of the said General |
OF 1882 is III the following |
words: Any person becoming.of age
and becnming qualified as an elector,
may appear before the supervisor Of
on any day on which
the books are opened as aforesaid, anl
take oath as to lis age anl qualifca-
tons, as hereinbefore provided, and
ii the supervisor find him qualified he
shall enter his name >upon the regis
tration book OF the precinct whereil
he resides
Z. And your orator further alleges
that in and by the requirements cf +
said registration enactments Of the