The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-01-29

fed, and shall furnish such elector
with certificate Of registration for
his county.
Section 16. Every elector shall be
entitled to renewal of his certificate
without fee or charge, when the same
becomes defaced or torn from use or
accident, upon the surrender Of such
defaced certificate to the supervisor.
In case of the loss of the certificate
any elector registered prior to the first
of January, 1898, shall be entitled to
another certificate upon application
and proof of loss on presenting to the
supervisor of registration an official
certificate from the clerk of the Court
of Common Pleas of his county, or
from the Secretary Of State, that his
name appears as registered voter on
the record files in such Offices. and
any elector registered after the first Of
January, 1898, shall be entitled to an
other certificate of registration upon
application and proof Of such loss if
his name appears upon the annual or
general enrolment made by the super
visor, and if otherwise qualified.
Section II. The supervisor shall re-
ceive the list of registered electors i'm
mediasely preceding each election, and
shall erase therefrom the names of all
electors who have become disqualified,
died or removed from the county.
Section>1S. The clerks of the Court
of General Sessions and Common
Pleas for each county shall On or be-
fore the 18th day of October, 1896, and
biennially thereafter on or before the
same day, make out and report to the
supervisors of registration for their re-
spective counties complete list Of all
male persons convicted during the
two previous years up to the 1st OF
October aforesaid of the following Of
fences, to wit: Burglary, arson, OBJ.
tanning goods or money under false
pretences, perjury, forgery, robbery,
bribery, adultery, Digamy, wife beat
ing, house breaking, receiving stolen
goodsbreach of trust withfraudulent in
tent, fornication, sodomy incest assault
with intent to ravish, miscegenation
and larceny or crimes against.the cleo
ton laws. Such report must be ac-
companied by the certificate of the
clerk under the seal of his Office that
the report is correct as appears from
the records of his Office.
Section 10. Every magistrate in the
State shall on or before the 18th day OF
October 1896, and biennislly thereafter
on or before the same day, make out
under his hand and seal and submit
to the supervisor ofregistration for the
county in which he holes his Office a
certified list Of all the male persons
convicted before him Of any of the
crimes mentioned in the preceding
section, or before any of his predeces-
sors whose trial docket is in his pos
session during the two preceding years
of the period following his last previous
report, or the last previous report by
his predecessor. Any magistrate or
clerk of the Court who shall fail to
make or neglect to make such report
shall forfeit and pay to the county in
which he holds his Office the sum OF
$50 for each and every such failure to
report.
Section 20. The reports provided for
in the two preceding sections shall be
received b5 the supervisor of registra-
ton as prinla facie proofs of the facts
stated therein, and he shall immedi-
ately erase the names of all such per-
sons from the registration books in
his county and they shall not be there
after allowed to register or to vote un-
less such person shall present to the
supervisor pardon from the Governor
or prove that he was never convicted
of the crime stated in such certificate,
thereupon his name shall be restored
to the list of registered voters as COM
pletely and efectually as if it had new
er been stricken therefrom. The su-
pervisors, are required whenever the
name of any voter is thus stricken
from the books of registration to fur
nish a list of such names to :he clerk
of Court and the Secretary of State and
they shall erase from The record of
registered voters on file in their re-
spective Offices the names of such cleo
tors
Section 81. Every eleetor shall vote
at the precinct for which he IS regis
tered. When new precinct is estab-
lished by law it shall be the duty Of
the supervisor of registration to trans
fer from the books OF registration the
names of such qualified voters regis
tered to vote at other precincts as
should under this section register and
vote at the new precinct, and who
may request such transfer, and to IS
sue to such voters new registration
certificates for such precinct who shall
thereafter vote at the precinct to which
they have been transferred. In case
of the removal of an elector from one
precinct to another in the same coun-
ty such elector shall notify the super
visor and surrender his certificate.
The supervisor shall note the fact upon
the proper book, and give to the elec-
tor certificate for the precinct into
which he has removed. When one
polling place has been changed to an
other in the same township or when
the name Of the polling place has been
changed since the last general election
the registration of voters for the for
mer polling place shall be valid and
efectual for the new polling place or
precinct. Any registered elector who
may reside nearer precinct IN a
township than the one at which be is
registered and desires to vote at such
nearer precinct shall, upon the
surrender of his certificate of regis.ra-
ton be entitled to new certificate en-
titling him to vote at such nearer pre-
cinct.
Section 90. The supervisor shall de.
post the books of registration for safe
keeping in the Office of the clerk of the
Court of General Sessions who shall
keep the same with the other records
in said office. Said books shall be
opened to publicinspection atau times
but shall not be removed from the Of
fee of the clerk of Court by any per-
son except the supervisor or any mem