The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-12-08
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 votsrr
Entitled to Registration unter the Con-
stitution-For the Information Of the
People Attention is Called to the Pol
foling Provisions of the New Law, Ap-,
proved the Fifth Day of March, 1896.
THE BOOKS OF REGISTRATION SHALL
i be opened by the Boards on the first
Monday in April. 1896, at the Court House In
each County, and kept open for at least 81!
consecutive weeks. They shall be opened
IN June, July, August and September, A: D.,
1895, and kept open continually for at least
one week in each Of said months. They shall
ton In 1895. After general election in 1895, the
Books of Registration shall be opened on the
first Monday OF each month at the Court
House and kept open for three successive days
election In 1895, when they shall be closed un-
til the said general election shall have taken
place. The Offices and books must be kept
open from o'clock in the forenoon until3
The Board OF Registration is the Judge OF
the qualifications Of al! applicants for regis
tration up TO January 1st, 1885, Up 70 Janu-
and Of the United States, twenty-one years Of
age, who Is not an idiot, is not insane. is not
pauper supported at the public expense,
and is not confined in any public prison, and
son, obtaining goods or money under false
pretenses, perjury, forgery, robbery, bribery.
| adultery, wife beating, housebreaktng. receiv-
| ing stolen goods, breach Of trust with fraudu-
lent, intent, sornication, sodomy, incest as
sault with intent to ravisb, miscegenation,
| larceny, or crimes against the election laws,
and who shall have been 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.
month"; ans and Who n ns pSdns % S
Constitution OF 1895. or can understand and
explain any section Of said Consultation.
read him 5 tss Sss
become q elector upon application for such
registration. II any person has been convict
ed Of any pr the crimes aforementioned, q.
pardon Of the Governor removes the disqual.
In case any minor who will become twenty.
one years Of age after the closing OF the Books
Of Registratration and before the election,
application under oath showing he IL quail.
fed to register, the Boards shall register such
applicant before the closing Of the books.
Any person whose quslihcations as an e!ec.
| W SS1Ap.ooSN osSx sA1o SsSoAA-o ,sA1o
Registration Books but before the next cleo
| ton, shall have the right to apply for and se-i
cure q registration certificate at any time
within sixty days Immediately preceding the
closing Of the Registration Books, upon an
application under oath to the facts entitling
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 10 for
each township, or parish. or city, or twon OF
less than five thousand Inhabitants, or ward
Of cities Of more than five thousand thhabi-
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 dee-
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
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,
8: s. BOLES,
w. A. LANIER. Y
Board Of Supervisors Of Registration.