The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-12-23
REGISTRATION NOTICE.
Old Certificates Of Registration
are Void Everybody Must
Register,

The Books of Registration will be Opened
on tho First Monday in December ne,t
and kept Open for Three Successive
Days for the Registration of Voters
Entitled to Registration unter the COIL
stitutlon-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
i be opened by the Boards on the hrst
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
In June. July, August and September, A. T.,
1896, and kept open continually for at least
one week in each OF said months. They shall
be closed thirty days before the general elec-
ton in 1898. After general election in 1895, the
Books of Registration shall be opeued 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
til the said general election shall have taken
place. The offices and books must be kept
open from 8 o'clock in the forenoon until
o'clock In the afternoon.
The Board OF Registration Is the Judge OF
the qualifications Of all applicants for regis
tration up to January 1st, 1898. Up tc Janu.
ary 1st, 1898. every male citizen of this State
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
pretenses, perjury, forgery, robbery, bribery,
adultery, wife beating, housebreaking, receiv-
Ing stolen goods, breach OF trust with fraudu-
lent, intent, sorntcation, sodomy, incest. as
.rttA I,ta 20 ytuh mi
larceny, or crimes against the election laws,
and who shall have been resident In this
State two years, Except ministers In charge
yf organized churches and teachers OF Paoilc
schools, and they after six months residence
In the State,) a resident In the County ior SIX
months, and In the polling precinct fonr
months, and who can read any Section IN the
explain any section OF said Constitution
when read to him by the registration ofhcer
or officers shall be entitled to registration and
become elector upon application Tor sucn
reg alstration. II any person has been con yict-
ed OF any of the crimes aforementioned, q
pardon OF the Governor removes the disqual'
ification.
IN case any minor who will become twenty
Of Registratrstion and before the election,
and Is otherwise qualified to register, makes
application under oath showing he is quail.
fed to register, the Boards shall register such
applicant before the closing of the books.
Any person whose qualifications as an eec.
tor will be completed after the closing Of the
Registration Books but before the next cleo
| ton, shall have the right to apply for and ae-
cure a registration certificate at any time
within sixty days Immediately preceding the
closing of the Registration Books, upon an
application under oath 70 the facts emitting
| him to such registration.
| The registration OF voters must be by POLL
Ing precincts. There must be Book OF Reg
IsCration for each polling precinct, that ts tor
each township, or parish. or city, or twon o.
| less than five thousand Inhabitants, or WARD
OF cities OF more than five thousand inhabi
tapts. Each elector must vote In the polling
| precinct in which he resides. II there Is more
than one voting place In the polling precinct
the elector may vote al any voting place des
ignated on the registration certificate. The
Boards must designate In the registration
certificate the voting place In the polling pre-
cinct at which the elector Is to vote. II thsre
Is more than one voting place In the polling
precincts, the Boards shall designate on The
certificate the voting place selected by Inc
eector.
Old certificates of registration are void. lGv
cry man who may desire TO exercise the righ,
TO vote must apply for Registration.
J. D. CARWILE,
S. s. BOLEs,
]. T. ELLIS.
Board OF Supervisors OF Registration.