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Hll(HICE | on REGISTRATION.
|sTATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA +,
E ABREVTILE COUNTY.
OFFICE OF SUPERVISORS OF REGIS
TfsATIoN, ABBEvILLE COUNTY.

Abbeville, 8. G., March 6, 1899.
K Notice Is hereby given that,in accor.
dance with an Act OF the General
Assembly, and In conformity with the
ts of the State Constitu-
|tion, The books for the registration of
all legally qualified voters; and for the
issuing Of transfers, ect.j Will be open
at the office Of Supervisors or Registra-
ton in the, Court House, between the
hour 9o'clock q. M, and 8 O'clock p.
N h., 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 Is
not an idiot is not insane, is not
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, fcrgery, robbery, bribery,
adultery wife beating, housebreaking,
receiving stolen goods, breach of trust
with fraudulent intent, fornication,
sodomy, incest, assault 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 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
tion of said Constitution when read to
him by the registration officer or off,
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, a pardon of the
Governor removes the disqualification
In case any minor who will become
twenty-one years of age after the clos
ling of the Books of Registration and
before the election, and is otherwise
qualified to register, makes appIica-
| ton under oath showing he is Quali-
fed to register, the Boards shall regis
ter such applicant before the closing of
the b ooks.
Any person whose qualifications as
an elector will be completed after the
closing of the Registration Books but
before the next election shall have the
right to apply for and secure a regis
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 registra-
ton.
The registration of voters must be
by polling precincts. There must be a
Book of Registration for each polling
precinct, that is for eacn township. or
parish, or city, or town of less than
1--WE thousand inhabitants, or ward of
cities of more than five thousand
inhabitants. Each elector must vote
in the polling precinct in which he
resides. If there is more than one
voting place in the polling precinct.
the elector may vote at any voting
place designated on the registration
certificate. The Boards must designate
in the registration certificate the vot-
ing place in the polling precinct 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.
S. S. BOLES,
w. A. LANIER.
q. H. MOORE.
Board of Supervisors Of Registration