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to provide for four boxes, which was

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 pee
pie could vote.
Mr.. Watson moved 10 table tn
amendment, which was agreed to.
Mr.. Bacot offered an amendment t
provide that the election boxes wit
their keys. should be deposited afte
fthe 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 CREATE
security of the boxes, but on mr.
Townsend's moving to table, lns
amendment was killed.
The previous question then peine
called, the bill was passed to thlro
reading by vote of SO to 10; the noes
being Messrs. Adams, Anderson, Gre
gory. Manning, Mellett. Miller, Parler
Sanders, Weston and wilson.
The senate bill to declare the law ir
reference to commissioners and mana
pers of elections was then taken uE
and passed.
NO CONVICT COMPETITION.
Mr.. Finklea's bill to prevent the
hiring of convicts to private parties
then came up, and Mr.. Finklea spoke
in support of it.
After further debate, 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 not apply to existing contracts
which was killed. The bill was then
passed to a third reading and Mr..
Kaufman put the clincher on it.
$2,5O0 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 sgricul
ture and stock raising. 1t provided
that there should be no immoral
shows. 1t was simply a question OF
whether tax should be raised for the
farmers of the State. The tax would
amount to 1.6S of mill. and would
bring back $25, 900 or $4,000 to the
farmers of the State. There was no
chance for any job, money making or
unconstitutionality.
The vote was then reconsidered.
Mr.. Ilderton then moved to table the
substitute, but the house refused to do
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 q poll
ing precinct. In all the cities and
towns containing 1000 inhabitants or
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 e1ector 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
stand 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. /,
1898, if otherwise qualified, and who
can both read and write any section
of the said constitution submitted to
him by the registration officer, or can
show that he owns and has paid all
taxes collectible during the previous
year on property in this State assessed
at three hundred dollars $4,000 or
more, and not disqualified under the
constitution or otherwise, shall be en-
titled to register and become electors
and shall be separately and severally
registered at the times and places and
in the manner and form hereinafter
mentioned and provided for. And no
person shall be entitled or allowed to
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 be
possessed of the qualifications for suf-
frage prescribed in the aforesaid arti-
Gle II.
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