The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-11-04
REGISTRATION NOTICE,
Old Certificates Of Registration
are Void-Everybody Must
Register.

The Rocks of Registration will be opened
on the First Monday in December next
and kept Open for Three Successive
DAYS for the Registration OF Vo1ers
Entitled to Registration unter the con-
stituticn-For the Information OF the
People Attention is Called to the FOL
foline Provisions of the New Law, Ap-
proved the Fifth Day of March, 1895.
rr,HE BOOKS OF REGISTRATION SHALL
be opened by the Boards on the nrsl
Monday In April 1896, at the Court House i ID .
each County, and kept open lor AZ iease aS o. =
consecutive weeks They tbs sha,i frsb % moppdavs
in June, July, August and september, "a; ~,
1885, and kept open continually lot OF aI Ia1i isaSi
one week in each Of said months. iney sna,i iaa
be closed thirty days before the general e!ec.
tion in 1896. After general election In le9O, tne
Books OF Registration shall be opened on tne
first Monday of each month at tne Court
House and kept open ior tn,ee aUS saSs SstoTe fSe
election in 1896, when they shall De closeo uu'
Til the said general election shall nave taken
nlace. The offices and books must be kepI
open from o'clock IN the forenoon I'LL I'll
o'clock in the afternoon.
The Board OF Registration Is the Judge OF
the qualifications Of all applicants lor Iegls'
tration up to January lst, 1878. Cp 70 Jauu
airy lst, 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. ls not
a pauper supported at the puollc expense,
and Is not confined In any pubic prison, ano
who has not been convicted OF burglary. ar.
son, obtaining goods or money under false
pretenses, perjury, forgery, robbery, orloery'
adultery, wife beating, housebreak Ing, receiV-
lent, intent. sornication, sodomy, incest as
sault with intent to ravish, miscegenatlon,
larceny, or crimes against the election laws,
and who shall have been resident IN tnls
State two years, Except ministers In charge
yf organized churches and teachers OF public
schools, and they after six months residence
in the State,) a resident In the County 1or Six
months, and In the polling precinct four
months, and who can read any Section IN the
Constitution Of 1895, or can understand and
explain any section Of said Constitution
when read to him by the registration officer
or officers shall be entitled to registration and
become q elector upon application tor such
registration. If any person has been convict
ed Of any pr the crimes aforementioned, a
pardon Of the Governor removes the disqual-
iication.
In case any minor who will become twenty
one years of age after the closing OF the BOOKS
Of Registratration and before the election,
and Is otherwise qualified to register, makes
application under oath showing he is quail
fled TO register, the Boards shall register such
applicant before the closing of the books:
Any person whose qualifications as an .elec-
Registration Books but before the next elec-
tion, shall have the right to apply for and Sc
cure 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 tosuch 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 of
less than five thousand Inhabitants, or ward
OF cities Of more than five thousand inhab-
tants. 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 at any voting place des-
lgnated 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. If there
is more than one voting place In the polling
precincts, the Boards shall designate on the
certificate the voting place selected by the
elector.
Old certificates OF registration are void. Ev-
cry man who may desire to exercise the right
TO vote must apply for Registration.
J. d. CARWILE,
S. S. BOLES,
J.. r. ELLIS.
Board of Supervisors of Registration.