The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-11-03
REGISTRATION NOTICE,
Old Certificates Of Registration
are Void i 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
i be opened by the Boards on the first
Monday In April. 1896, at the Court House In
consecutive weeks. they shall be opened
again at the Court House on the first Mondays
IN June, july, August and September, A; D.,
one week in each OF said months. They shall
be closed thirty days before the general cleo
ton In 1885, After general election In 1886, 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
election In 1896, when they shall be closed un-
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
ary Ist, 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
a Pauper. supported at the public expense,
and is not confined In any public prison, and
who has not been con victed Of burglary. ar
son, obtaining goods or money under false
peS forgery IODSerX eriSsTy rHos
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 months residence
In the State,) q resident In the County for Six
months, and In the polling precinct four
months, and who can read any Section In the
Constitution OF 1895, or can understand and
when read to him by the registration of1cer
or officers shall be entitled to registration and
become elector upon application Tor suon
registration: II any person has been convict
pardon Of the Governor removes the disqual-
ifcation.
IN case any minor who will become twenty
Of Of RegIstratrstion and before the election,
and Is otherwise qualified to register, makes
application under oath showing he ts quail
fed to register, the Boards shall register such
Any person whose qualifications as an cleo
tor will be completed after the closing Of the
Registration Books but before the next elec-
tion, shall have the right to apply for and Be-
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 ent1tllng
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 OF
Iless than five thousand Inhabitants, or Ward
of cities OF more than five thousand 1nhabl-
tants. Each elector must vote In the polling
precinct In which he resides. II there 1s more
than one voting place in the polling precinct,
the elector may vote at 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 there
ls 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 rlgnt
TO vote must apply for Registration.
J. D. CARWILE,
S. 8. BOLES,
W. A. LANIER.
Board of Supervisors of Registration.