The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-10-27
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, APP
proved the Fifth Day of March, 1896.
THE BOOKS OF REGISTRATION SHALL
1 be opened by the Boards on the nrst
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, and kept open continually for at least
one week In each Of said months. They shall
be closed thirty days before the general elec.
ton in 1896. After general election In 1870, Inc
Books OF Registration shall be opened on % tne
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 for regis
tration up TO January 1st, 1898. Up to Janu.
ary LIST, 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 convicted of burglary. ar
son, obtaining goods or money under false
pretenses, perjury, forgery, robbery, bribery,
adultery, life beating, housebreaking, recelV-
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 resident In this
State two years, Except ministers In charge
Vt organized churches and teachers OF public
schools, and they after six months residence
in the State) 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
explain any section Of said constitution on
or officers shall be entitled to registration and
become q elector upon application for such
reg gistration. If any person has been con vict-
ed OF any pf the crimes aforementioned, q
pardon OF the Governor removes the disqual.
ihcation.
IN case any minor who will become twenty
one years of age after the closing Of the Books
of REORGANIZATION and before the election,
application under oath showing he is quail
fed to register, the Boards shall register such
applicant before the closing of the books.
Any p6TSOu "uOS6 dS du eleC-
tor will be completed after the closing of the
Registration Books but before the next elec-
| ton, 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 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 o.
less than five thousand Inhabitants, or ward
OF cities of more than five thousand inhabi
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
ignated on the registration certificate. The
Boards must designate in the registration
certificate the voting place In the polling pre-
cipct at which the eectOr Is 10 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. 8. BOLES,