The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-11-25
REGISTRATION NOTICE.
Old Certificates Of Registration
are Void Everybody Must
Register.

The Books of Registration will be Opened
| on the FIRST Monday in December next
and kept Open for Three Successive
DAYS for the Registration of Voters
Entitled to Registration unter the Con-
stitution-For the Information of the
People Attention is Called to the Fol-
foling Provisions of the New Law, Ap-
proved the Fifth Day of March, 1896.
rHE BOOKS OF REGISTRATION SHALL
! be opened by the Boards on the hrst
Monday in Aprif.1s at the Court House ! IN
each County. and kept open for at at least snsd SIX
again at the Court House on the first Mondays
| in June, July, August and September, A; u,
| 1896, and kept open continually lot at leasI
one week in each of said months. They snail mai
be closed thirty days before the general e!ec.
ton in 1896. After general election IN 1870 the
Books of Registration shall be opened on Lne
first Monday Of each month al tne C0uIt
House and e hrsS
election in 1885, when they shall oe Glossy un, an
til the said general election snail nave tahs ,t
place. The offices and books ,must De ptI RePs
open from 8 o'clock in the forenoon uhtii
The Board OF Registration ia the Judge OF
the qualifications Of all applicants ior regis
|
ary list, Isss. every male citizen of this state
and Of the United States. twenty-one years VI y,
age, who is not an idiot, is not insane, is not
a pauper supported at the pnolic eSpenseS;
who has not been convicted OF burglary: ar.
son, obtaining goods or money under Ialse
pretenses perjury, forgery. ROBBERY, orineiy, s,y
ing stolen goods, breach of trust with fraudu'
lent, intent, sornication, sodomy, incest, as
sault with intent to ravish, miscegenatlon'
larceny, or crimes against the eleeaion ,amS
State two years, Except ministers IN cnarge
Vt organized churches and teachers Oh Pnole
schools, and they after SIX months fesioenGe
in the State) resident In the County !or BIZ
months, and in the polling precinct foul
months, and who can read any section In tns
Constitution OF 1895, or can understand ano
explain any section OF said ConslitafsiloE I ufioH,
when read to him by the registration omcei
or officers shall be entitled TO registration ane
n become a elector upon application Tor s9cI
registration. If any person has been conyict
ed Of any pf the crimes EN- Gioonai
pardon Of the Governor removes 'ne uioau"'
In case any minor who will become twenty
one years of age after the closing OF the BooR'
of REORGANIZATION and before the election
and ia otherwise qualified to register, max e. e.
application under oath showing he is quail
fed TO register, the Boards shall register suct
applicant before the closing OF tne DOCKS. N ., on
ANY person whose qualifications as an e!ec
tor will be completed after the closing OF IN
Registration Books but before the next elec
! ton, shall have the right to apply lot ana N se
cure a registration certificate at any tiuh
within sixty days Immediately precedlng tn
closing of the Registration Books, Hpon, al
application under oath TO the facts enIltllnl
J him to such registration. -. nj,
, The registration of voters must be oy POI
Ing precincts. There must be BOOK OF reg
Istration for each polling precinct, tnaI ls 10 Q
each township, or parish or CITY, or t~on y
/ Less Than q We thousand Inhabitants, or war;
L of cities OF more than five thousand lnnaol
tapts. Each elector must vote IN tne poIiln
precinct in which be resides. II there ls lnor
Than one voting place In the polling Preci5ac. a
the elector may vote al any Votlng piace Tt Tes
lignated on the registration certlncate. ~
Boards must designate In the registlaLloI
certificate the voting place In the poii1pg pie
cinct at which the eector Is 10 vote. II Tue,
is more than one voting place IN the poiiipll
precincts. the Boards shall designate on ~
certificate the voting place selected oy III
eector. ,o,d Ey
ery man who may desire to exercise the rlen
to vote must apply for Registration.
J. d. CARWILE,
s. 8. BOLEs,
1T. ELLIS.
Board of Supervisors Of Registration.