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NOTICE OF REGISTRATION.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
ABBEvILLE COUNTY.
OFFICE OF SUPERVISORS OF REGIS.
TRATIoN, ABBEvILLE COUNTY.
AbbeyIlle, 8. c., March 6, 1899.

AbbevIlle, 8. c., March 6, 1899.
Notice is hereby given that in accor.
dance with an Act of the General
Assembly, and in conformity with the
requirements of the State Constitu-
ton, the books for the registration OF
all legally qualified voters, and for the
issuing Of transfers, ect., will be open
at the office of Supervisors of Registra-
tion in the Court House, between the
hour 8 o'clock a. M, and 3 o'clock p.
M, on the first Monday of each
month, until thirty days before the
next general election.
The Board of Registration is the
Judge of the qualifications OF all
applicants for registration every male
citizen of this State and of the United
State, twenty-one years of age, who is
not an idiot is not insane, is not q
pauper supported at the public ex-
nense. and is not confined in any pub
tic prison, and who has not been con-
victed of burglary, arson, obtaining
goods or money under false pretenses
perjury, forgery, robbery, bribery,
adultery wife beating, housebreaking,
receiving stolen goods, breach OF trust
with fraudulent intent, fornication,
sodomy, incest, assault with intent tU
ravish, miscegenation. larceny, or
crimes against the election laws. and
who shall have been resident in this
State two years Except ministers in
charge of organized churches and
teachers of public schools, and these
after six months residence in the
State.) a resident in the County fol
ak months, and in polling precincy
four months, and who can read any
Section in the Constitution Of 1895, OF
can understand and explain any Sec
ton of said Constitution when read te
him by the registration officer or OH,
GERS shall be entitled to registration ano
become an elector upon application fol
such registration. If any person has
been convicted of any of the crimes
aforementioned, pardon of the
Governor removes the disqualification
In case any minor who will become
twenty-one years of age after the clos
ing of the Books of Registration ane
before the election, and Is otherwise
qualified to register, makes appllca
ton under oath showing he is quail
fed to register, the Boards shall regis
ter such applicant before the closing o
the ooks.
Any person whose qualifications a.
an elector will be completed after TN
closing of the Registration Books 6u
before the next election shall have tn
right to apply for and secure regis
tration certificate at any time within
sixty days Immediately preceding
the closing of the Registration Books
upon an application under oath to tn
facts emitting him to such registra
ton.
The registration of voters must b.
bv polling precincts. There must be
Book of Registration for each polling
precinct, that is for eacn township. o
parish, or city, or town of less thai
five thousand Inhabitants, or ward o
cities of more than five thousan'
inhabitants. Each elector must vot
in the polling precinct in which d
resides, If there is more than on
voting place in the polling precinct
the elector may vote at any votinI
place designated on the registration
certificate. The Boards must designat
in the registration certificate the vot
ing place in the polling precinct
/ which the elector is to vote. If ther
is more than one voting place In tn
polling precincts, the Boards shal
designate on the certificate the votlni
place selected by the elector:
J. D. CARWILE,
8. s. BOLES,
w. A. LANIER.
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