The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-08-18


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 Septemb Der, 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-
tion In 1896. After general election in 1896, the
Books of Registration shall be opened on the
first Monday of each month at the C9url @
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
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. Is9S. every male citizen of this State
and of the United States. twenty-one years oil
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, orloery'
adultery, wife beating, housebreaking, receiv-
ing stolen goods, breach of trust wi th 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 thls
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
months, and in the polling precinct four
months, and who can read any Section In the
Constitution OF 1875, or can understand ana
explain any section OF said CONSTITUTION
when read to him by the registration officer
or officers shall be entitled to registration apd
become a elector upon application ior such
req eelstration. If any person has been con yict-
ed Of any pf the crimes aforementioned, q
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
| of RegistratratiOn and before the election,
and is otherwise qualified to register, max kes
application under oath showing he is quail
| fled to register, the Boards shall register such
applicant before the closing of the books.
| Any person whose qualifications as an cleo
tor will be com mpleted 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
| plication under oath TO the facts emitting
| him tosuch registration.
The registration of voters must be by poll
| Ing precincts. There must he Book or Reg
istration for each polling precinrt, that Is for
each township, or parish. or city, or twon OF
| less than five thousand Inhabitants, or Ward
OF cities OF more than five thousand lnhaol-
tapts, Each elector must vote n 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 voling place ues'
| 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. 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-
ery man who may desire to exercise the right
to vote must apply for Registration.
j. D. CARWILE,
S. S. BOLES,
w. A. LANIER.
! Board OF Supervisors of Registration.