The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-01-06
NOTICE.
Old Certificates Of Registration
are Void Everybody Must
Register.

Entitled to Registration unter the Con-
stitution-Por the Information Of the
People Attention Is Called to the Pol
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 nrst
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 elec-
ton In 1895. After general election In 1885, the
Books OF Registration shall be opened on the
House and kept open for three successive days
in each month until thirty days before the
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 until
O'Clock in the afternoon.
The Board OF Registration ia the Judge OF
the qualifications OF al! applicants for regis
tration up TO January lst, 1898 Up to Jas!.
ary 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. is not
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, wife beating, housebreaktng, receiv-
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
yf organized churches and teachers OF public
schools, and they after six months residence
In the State,) q resident in the County Tor six
n nranfnGf
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 for such
registration. II any person has been con vict-
ed OF any pf the crimes aforementioned,
pardon OF The Governor removes the disqual.
ification.
In case any minor who will become twenty
one years of age after the closing OF the Books
and is otherwise qualified to register, makes
application under oath showing he is quail
fed to register, the Boards shall register such
before the clOsIg Of the eSoks
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 a 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 06uch regl6tratlOD. .
The registration of voters must be by poll
Ing precincts. There must be Book Of Reg
stration for each polling precinct, that is for
each township. or parish: or city, or tWon o.
less than d we thousand Inhabitants, or ward
of cities OF more than five thousand inhabi-
tants. Each eector must vote In the polling
precinct In which be resides. II there Is more
than one voting place In the polling precinct,
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,
s. s. BOLES,
]. T. ELLIS.
Board of Supervisors of Registration.