The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-05-12
REGISTRATION NOTICE.
Old Certificates Of Registration
are Void 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, 1896.
THE BOOKS OF REGISTRATION SHALL
| ! be opened by the Boards on the first
Monday ia April. 1895, 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. D..
1896, ami Kept open continually for at least
one week In each Of said mon hs. They shall
be closed thirty days before the general cleo
ton in 1885. After general election In 1886. the
Rocks OF keglstrati"n shall be opened 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-
I'll the said general election shall have taken
place. The offices and books must be kept
open from 9 o'clock In the forenoon until
o'clock in the afternoon.
The Board OF Registration Is the judge OF
the qualifications OF all applicants Tor regis
lration up TO January 1st, 1898 Up to Janu-
sry lSt, 1885, 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
q pauper supported at the public expense,
and IL not confined In any public prison, and
VINO has not been convicted OF burglary. Ar.
son, obtaining goods or money under false
pretenses, perjury, forgery. robbery, bribery.
Adultery, wife heating, ,hoGsebreaki ing, receiV-
Ing stolen goods, breach OF trust with fraudu-
| lent, intent, sornication, souony, incest as
sault with intent to ravish, m iscegenation,
| larceny, or crimes against the election laws,
and who shall have been a resident In this
State Two years. except ministers In charge
| VI organized churches and teachers OF public
schools. and they after SIX months residence
| in the State,) n resident In the County Tor SIX
months, aud In the polling precinct lour
| 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 ohicer
or officers shall be entitled TO registration and
| become elector upon application Tor such
reg istration. II any person has been COW
ed OF any pf the crimes aforementioned, q
pardon of the Governor removes the disquai-
| itication.
| IN case any minor who will become twenty
one years of age after the closing o { tue Books
| OF RegiStratration and before The election,
and Is otherwise qualified to register, makes
application under oath showing he Is quail
fed TO reg lister, the Boards shall regiSte such
applicant before the closing of the books.
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 Sc
cure registration certificate at any time
within sixty days Immediately preceding the
osing OF the Registration Books, upon an
application under oath To the facts emitting
him tOsucb registration.
The registration OF voters must be by poll
Ing pIeciucts. There must he Book OF Reg
islralion for each polling precinct, that Is for
each township, or parish. or city. or twon of
less than five In housand Inhabitants, or ward
OF cities OF more than five thousand inhabi-
tants. Each elector must vote in the polling
precinct in which he resides. If there Is more
than one voting place in the polling precinct.
the elector may vote NJ any voting place des-
ignated on the registration certificate The
Boards must designate in the registration
Ct rtificate the voting place in the polling pre-
ciuct at which the eiector 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
OId certificates OF registration are void. Ev-
cry man who may desire 10 exercise the right
to vote must apply for Registration.
J. D. CARWILE,
S. s. BOLES,
J. T. ELLIS.
Board OF Supervisors of Registration.