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NOTICE OF REGISTRATION.

STATE VI SOUIH CAROLIN a, |
ABBEvILLE COUNTY.
OFFICE OF SUPERVISORS OF REGIS
TRATION, ABBEVILLE COUNTY.
Abbeville, 8. c., March 6, ls99
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 8 o'clock a. No., and 8 o'clock p.
NJ, 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 a
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, housebreaRing,
receiving stolen goods, breach of trust
with fraudulent intent, fornication,
sodomy, incest, assault with intent t.
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 dn the County for
six months, and In polling precincy
four months, and sWh0 can read any
Section in the ConstftGt tGtf6nslof 1895, or
can understand and explain any sec
tion of said ConstitutiongWh read to
him by the Registrations hcer or ofti-
GERS shall be entitled to registratian and
become an elector upon applicati lon for
such registration. If any petsDn has
been convicted of any Of sthA srtnes
aforementioned, a pardon Of the
Governor removes the disqualif ificAtions
In case any minor who will become
twenty-one years of age after the cloee
ing of the Books of Registration and
before the election, and is otherwise
qualified to register, makes apphcas
ton under oath showing he is quail
fed to register, the Boards shali regisi
ter such applicant beforet the closing 81
the books.
ANY person whose q1alifi cations ss
an elector will be Completed after the
closing of the Registration Books 6nt aIIl'
before the next election shall have the
right to apply for and secure q regiss
tration 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 to such sregistras
ton. ~ .Ss
The registration of voters must he
by polling precincts. Thsse emna A
Book of Registration forl HIS
precinct, that Is for EACH
parish, or city, or tQafl X
five thousand inhabit q & rs!
cities Of more; TIN r. : y 81
| IVOtlnKp!aeest tt5se tt51 " 3 + (f!
the eieEtpr may Z! s.
place aess hate d ion
cert ificat The Roafx -
ID the Fegistrati lon, es5
ing plaeeSin tfe Elns
which the elector
is more than one voff T.
polling precincts
designate on the certidca axe
place selected by the elect tofs s:ss5' "
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Board of Supervisors Of Registratlop