The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-12-30
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, 1895.
THE BOOKS OF REGISTRATION SHALL
l be opened by the Boards on the first
Monday In April, 1896, 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
M In June. July, August and september, A.; D.,
one week in each Of said months. They shall
be closed thirty days before the general elec-
ton In 1895. After general election In 1898, 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 in 1896, when they shall be closed un-
place. The Offices and books must be kept
open from o'clock In the forenoon until 8
o'clock in the afternoon.
The Board OF Registration Is the judge OF
tration up to January 1st, 1895 Up to Janu.
ary 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
q pauper supported at the public expense.
and is not confined in any public prison, and
who has not been convicted of burglary, ar.
son., obtaining goods or money under false
pretsnses, perjury, forgery. robbery, bribery,
ing stolen goods, breach Of trust with fraudu.
lent, intent, sornication, sodomy, incest, as
sault with intent to ravish, miscegenation,
larceny, or crimes against the election laws,
and who shall have been a resident in this
State two years. except ministers In charge
yf organized churches and teachers of public
schools, and they after six mon tbs residence
in the State,) a resident In the County Tor six
months, and who can read any Section in the
Constitution OF 1895, or can understand and
explain any section Of said Constitution
or officers shall be entitled TO registration and
become elector upon application for such
registration. If any person has been convict
pardon Of the Governor removes the disqual.
ification.
In case any minor who will become twenty.
one years of age after the closing OF the Books
and is otherwise qualified to register, maxi es
application under oath showing he ia quail.
fed to register, the Boards shall register such
applicant before the closing Of the books.
tor will be completed after the closing of the
Registration Books but before the next elec.
tlon, shall have the right TO apply for and se-
cure a registration certificate at any time
within sixty days Immediately preceding the
closing of the Registration Books, upon an
application under oath to the facts emitting
him to such registration.
The registration of voters must be by poll
ing precincts. There must be Book OF Reg
istration for each polling precinct, that Is for
each township, or parish. or city, or twon o.
/ less than I've thousand Inhabitants, or ward
OF cities Of more than five thousand inhabi
tants. Each elector must vote in the polling
precinct in which be resides. II there is more
than one voting place In the polling precinct
1.-The elector may vote al any voting place des
Rgnated on the registration certificate. The
oards must designate In the registration
prtifcate the voting place In the polling pre-
net at which the elector is to vote. If there
bore than one voting place An the polling
6pcts, the Boards shall designate on the
gate the voting place selected by the
Sicates OF. registration are void. Ev.
Tho may desire to exercise the right
kapply for Registration.