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to provide for four boxes, which was

taDlcQ.
Mr.. Bacot offered an amendment t.
extend the time for closing the poll
to 5 o'clock, saying that in the cite
the early hour and the late hour wer
the only hours that the laboring peo
pie could vote.
Mr.. Watson moved to table tn
amendment, which was agreed to.
Mr.. Bacot offered an amendment t.
provide that the election boxes witt
their keys. should be deposited afte
the election with the clerk of court
with their contents, said contents t.
be destroyed at the next election
which was agreed to.
Mr.. Bacot then offered another
amendment to provide for the greater
security of the boxes, but on Mr
Townsend's moving to table, lhs
amendment was killed.
The previous question then oelne
called, the bill was passed to thlre
reading by a vote of SO to 10; the noes
being Messrs. Adams, Anderson, Gre
gory. Manning, Mellett, Miller, Pa.ier
Sanders. Weston and Wilson.
The senate bill to declare the law ir
reference to commissioners and mana
GERS of elections was then taken ul
and passed.
NO CONVICT COMPETITION.
Mr.. Finklea's bill to prevent the
hiling of conv1cts to private parties
then came up, and Mr.. Finklea spoke
in support of it.
After further debate, a motion to in
definitely postpone was rejected by
vote of AZ to Al.
An amendment of Mr.. Ilderton's tc
provide that convicts should be sup
ported by the penitentiary was reject
ed.
Mr.. Tatum moved to amend to pro
vide that the conditions of the bill
should MOI apply to existing contracts
which was killed. The bill was ther
passed to a third reading and Mr.
kaufman put the clincher on it.
$4,000 FOR THE FAIR.
The State fair appropriation resolu
ton was then taken up. as unfinished
business, and Mr.. Patton moved to re
consider the vote whereby the house
had refused to order it to third read
ing, and then offered substitute res
olution.
Mr.. Patton said that this resolution
was for the encouragement of agricul
ture and stock raising. 1t provided
that there should be no immora
shows. 1t was simply a question oi
whether tax should be raised for the
farmers of the State. The tax would
amount to 1-6S of a mill. and would
bring back $25, 1000 or $4,000 to the
farmers of the State. There was nc
chance for any job, money making OF
unconstitutionality.
The vote was then reconsidered.
Mr.. Ilderton then moved to table the
substitute, but the house refused to dc
so by a vote OF AZ to 46.
There was much discussion over the
different amendments.
Mr.. Townsend then offered the fol
lowing to be known as section 81
which was adopted:
Section 81. Each township as now
or hereafter laid out and defined in the
several counties of this State, and in
those counties where there are no such
townships, the parish as formerly
known and defined, is declared poll
ing precinct. In all the cities and
towns containing 5000 inhabitants OF
more, where the same is divided into
wards, each ward shall be polling
precinct; and in the city of Charles
ton the polling precincts shall be the
same as the voting precincts now es.
tablished in the several wards of said
city by law. The voting places within
these polling precincts shall the same
as now or hereafter established by
law: Provided, when there are more
than one voting place in the polling
precinct the elector for that precinct
can vote at either polling place, to be
designated on his certificate of regis
tration by board of registration or su,
pervisor of registration.
Mr.. Bacot then offered the follswing
amendment which was rejected:
Section 1. Up to and including Jan.
1, 1898, all male persons of voting age
applying for registration who can
read any section Of the constitution OF
1895 of this State submitted to them
by the registration officer, or under
sand and explain it when read to
them by the registration officer, and
not disqualified under the constitution
or otherwise and any person who shall
apply for registration after Jan. 1,
1898, if otherwise qualified, and who
can both read and write any section
of the said constitution submitted tc
him by the registration officer, or car
show that he owns and has paid al
taxes collectible during the previous
year on property in this State assessed
at three hundred dollars $4,000 OF
more, and not disqualified under the
constitution or otherwise, shall be en-
titled to register and become elector:
and shall be separately and severally
registered at the times and places anC
in the manner and form hereinafter
mentioned and provided for. And ne
person shall be entitled or allowed tc
vote at any election hereafter to be
held Except as provided in section Il
of said article ~ unless he shall have
been registered as hereinafter provid
ed for and required, and shall produce
and exhibit his registration certificate
to the managers of election of the poll
ing precinct at which he may be emit
tied to vote. and, also. unless he bt
possessed of the qualifications for suf
frage prescribed in the aforesaid arti
Gle II.
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