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NOTICE OF REGISTRATION.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
ABBEvILLE COUNTY. ..
OFFICE OF SUPERVISORS OF REGIS
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TRATIoN, ABBEvILLE COUNTY.
Abbeville, 8. c., March 8, 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-
ton in the Court House, between the
hour 9 o'clock q. M, and o'clock p.
M, on the first Monday of each
month, and kept open for three sue
cessive days In 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 ls
not an idiot is not insane, is not q
pauper supported at the public ex-
pense, and is not confined in any pub
lie 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,
Lsodomy, incest, assault with intent tO
ravish, fmiscegenation, 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 for
six months, and in polling precincy
four months, and who can read any
Section in the Constitution Of 1895, or
can understand and explain any Sec
ton of said Constitution when read to
him by the registration officer or OIL
GERS shall be entitled to registration and
become an elector upon application for
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
ingaf the Books of Registration and
f6fe the election, and is otherwise
1uaIified Ito register, makes applica-
lion under oath showing he is quail
He'd toFegister, the Boards shall regis
Ter such applicant before the closing of
the b ooks.
ANY person whose qualifications as
elector will be completed after the
EEi6el of the Registration Books but
Ehe fesnext election shall have the
|figfiE kk Apply, for and secure regis
Etfat{0 S6ft l6cate at any time within
sixty d2SS lmme ediately preceding
Etha H3r6fI&so sof the Registration. Books,
EHp0H an plieation under oath to the
faetH On ling him to such registra-
4 Tie feS 1Efratipn of voters must be
bE poilfne 6fecincts. There must be
BOOK of Regsetrstion for each polling
precinct bet fer eacn township. or
Eparieh, or 0tf4Sor town Of less than
ave thousand Inhabitants, or ward of
cities of. moi than five thousand
inhabit bitants: g 6Nh eleetor must vote
ins The pol Hing Neinct in which he
|residea lIf therS is more than one
voting place if the polling precinct,
Abe eieotor may vote at any voting
place designated on the egistration
Eoefti fcate. The Boards must designate
In the registratio certificate the vot-
ing place in the polling precinct at
which the electOr is to vote. If there
Eis more than one svoting place in the
POLL Inn sprecinc Sta the Boards shall
designate on the ceftificate the voting