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tifcate os registration, or the mutila
ton of the same. Section Is prescribe:
the man ner in which other certificate!
can be obtaiIed.
s The board of registration shall
review the lists of registered elector:
at least ten days proceeding each elec
ton, and shall erase therefrom the
names of all reistered electors who
may have become disqualified, who
upon satisfactory evidence may appear
to have died or removed from their re
spective counties, or who may have
been illegally or fraudlently regis
tered. Persons whose names are thus
erased have the right to appeal to the
court of common pleas, or a Judge
thereof, as in case OF persons. denied
registration. Records Of conviction OF
persons furnished by clerks OF courts
and magistrates shall be prlma facle
proof of disqualification, ETC., to au'
thorize the board to erase names. Far
ties whose names have been thus
erased shall have the right to produce
a pardC from the governor, or other
proof, to show that their names we're
improperly erased, and the board shall
restore the names.
9. Each township as now laid out,
and in those counties where there are
no such townships, the parish as form
erly known and defined, is polling
precinct. In cities and towns contain
ing five thousand inhabitants or more,
where the same is divided into wards,
each ward is a polling precinct, and in
cities and towns or less that five thou
sand inhabitants, the city or town Is a
polling precinct. In the city of
Charleston the polling precincts are
the same as the voting precincts as
now established by law. The territory
in the township in which Columbia is
situated, in the county of Richland,
outside of the city of Columbia, is de-
clared a polling precinct.
The registration of voters must be
by polling precints. There must be
book of registration for each polling
precinct, that is for each township, or
parish, or city. or town of less than five
thousand inhabitants, or ward OF cities
of more than five thousand inhabitants
Each elector must vote in the polling
precinct in which he resides. Ifthere
is more than one voting place in the
polling precinct. the elector may vote
at any voting place designated on the
registration certificate. The boards
must designate in the registration Ger
tificate the voting place in the polling
precinct at which the elector is to vote.
IF tn ere is more than one voting place
in the polling precinct, the boards
shall designate on the certificate the
voting place selected by the elector.
Section ~ prescribes the manner in
which an elector can have his voting
place, designated in his certificate,
changed.
10. The books and other records of
registration must be deposited by the
boards of registration in the office OF
the clerk of court of common pleas.
Tney shall be kept in said Office, ex-
cept when used by the board of regis
tratlon in the several polling precincts
as required by law. They shall be
public records, open to the inspection
of any citizent at all times.
II. Immediately preceding any gen
eral or special election, the boards of
registration shall furnish the COM
missioners of election with two regis
tration books for each voting place in
each polling precinct, containing in
each the names of all electors entitled
to vote at such voting place. The COM
missioners shall turn over said books
to the managers of election at each
voting place IN the polling precinct,
who shall be responsible for the care
and custody of said books and the re-
turn thereof to the commissioners with
in three days after such election. The
commissioners shall return such books
to the board of registration within
twenty days after such election. -.
-. The board of registration, ca or
before the first day of February, A. D.,
1898, shall enter in two books fur
nished by the secretary of State, the
names of all electors registered up to
the first day of January, 1898, and sub
scribe on oath in said books that the
said books contain all such names. one
of which shall be filed by the board in
the Office of the secretary of the State,
and one in the Office of the clerk of the
court for each count.
IS. The meetings of the boald for
hearing applications for registration,
or for all other business, may be
either private or public, as the mem
bers may deem best for the proper dis
patch of business, etc.
The boards of registration must keep
their Offices open on the days required
by law for registration of electors from
o'clock in the fornoon until 8 o'clock
in the afternoon. Members of the
boards of registration are entitled to
two hundred and fifty dollars each for
the year 1896, and one hundred and
twenty-five each for the year 1897, and
until their successors qualify; and they
20 out of Office on the LIST of February
1898, but can not register electors after
LIST of January, 1898.
Salaries of members of the boards of
registration are payable quarterly by
the State treasurer, upon the warrant
of the comptroller general.
IA. The boards Of registration are
required to furnish an elector, who
has been registered up to January 1st,
1898, certificate that he is duly reg
istered, upon application of said cleo
tor, in order to entitle him to vote
when his name does not appear upon
the registration book furnished the
managers of election.
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