The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-04-08
REGISTRATION LAW.
THE RULES, REGULATIONS AND IN
sTRUCTloNS FOR REGISTERING.

sTRUCTloNS FOR REGISTERING.
Board of Registration Judges of Qualifica
tion OF Appltcants--who May and Ma,
Not R-gi.ter---Rigbt of Appeal--Bo
Made Public Records.
The pamphlet of "Instructions tc
Boards of Registration has been re-
ceived by the county supervisors oi
registration and they accordingly
opened the books for the registration
OF voters last Monday. There are
many radical changes from the old
law in the act passed at the last ses
sion of the legislature and voters will
do we'll to read carefully the qualifica.
tions emitting them to registration.
Paragraph recites the manner o.
the boards first organization. Below
is given unabridged instructions for
voters.
2. The books of registration shall be
opened by the boards on the first Mon
day in April, 1886, at the court house
in each county, and kept open for at
least six consecutive weeks. They
shall be opened again at the court
house on the first Mondays in June,
July, August and September, A. D. ,
1896, and kept open continuously for
at least one week in each of said
months. They shall be closed thirty
days before the general election in
1896. After the general election in
1896, the books Of registration shall
be opened on the first Monday of each
month at the court house and kept open
for three successive days in each
month until thirty days before the
election of 1898, when they shall be
closed until the said general election
shall have taken place. The Offices
and books must be kept open from 9
o'clock in the forenoon until o'clock
in the afternoon.
8. The board of registration is the
judge Of the qualifications of all ap
plicants for registration up to January
1st, 1898. Up to January 1st, 1898,
every male citizen of this State and of
the United States, twenty-one years of
age, who is not an idiot, is not insane,
is not pauper supported at the pub
lie expense, and is not confined in any
public prison, and who has not been
eonvicted ed of burglary, arson, obtain
ing goods or money under false pre-
lenses, perjury, forgery, robbery, brib-
cry, adultery, wife beating, house
breaking, receiving stolen goods,
breach of trust with frsasad5,a.llent Intent
fornication, sodomy, incest, assault
with intent to ravlsh, miscegenation,
larceny or crimes against the election
laws, and who shall have been a resi-
dent in this State two years. (except
ministers in charge of organized
churches and teachers of public
schools, and they after six months
residence in the State,) a resident in
the county for six months and in the
polling precinct four months, and
who can read any section in the con.
stitution of 1895, or can understand
and explain any section of said consti-
tuition when read to him by the regis
tration officer or officers, shall be en-
titled to registration and become an
elector upon application for such reg
istration. If a person has been con-
vIcted of any of the crimes above men
toned, pardon of the governor re-
moves the disqualification.
The boards of registration in judg-
ing of the qualifications of applicants
for registration are authorized to re-
quire of every such applicant satisfac-
tory proof of his age, residence, etc.
In determining the intelligence quail
6cation of the applicant, the boards
select the section of the constitution
to be read or explained and understood
by the applicant. Applicants denied
registration should be promptly noti-
fed, so as to allow them the right of
appeal.
The books of registration must be
kept open at least six weeks, when
opened on the first Monday of April,
1896, and at least one week when
opened on first Monday in June, July,
August and September, 1896, but the
boards of registration can keep them
open longer if it is deemed necessary.
After the books are closed thirty
days before the election, they cannot
be opened to register any elector be-
fore the election. Minors and others
entitled to register, must be registered
before the books are closed.
4. Any person denied registration,
shall have the right of appeal to the
circuit and supreme court.
The appellant must file within ten
days after the decision of the board of
registration written notice with the
board, of his intention to appeal. At
ter the expiration of the ten days, in
case notice of appeal has been filed,
the board must file with the clerk of
the court of the county the written
notice of intention to appeal, and any
papers in their possession relating to
the case, and a report of the case if
they deem it proper. If the appellant
desires the appeal to be heard by a
Judge at chambers, he must give every
member of the board four days writ
ten notice of the time and place of
hearing, and the board must appear at
the hearing. If the appellant appeals
to the supreme court, he must serve
upon every member of the board of
registration a copy of a notice of in
tention to to appeal, within ten days
after the decision of a judge of the
court of common pleas, and the said
board may appear at the hearing.
5. In case any minor who will be.
come twenty one years of age after the
closing of the books of registration
and before the election and is other,