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NOTICE OF REGISTRATION.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
ABBEy1LIE COUNTY.
OFFICE OF SUPERVISORS OF REGIS
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 a. M, and 3 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 thes next, general
election. sa.si,
The Board of Registration is the
Judge of the qualifications Of PHI
applicants for registration every maie
citizen of this State and of the United
State, twenty-one years of age, WHO'S
not an idiot is not insane, is not O.
pauper supported at the public aex-
pense, and is not confined in any pHb-
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, fornicatlon,
sodomy, incest, assault with intent to
ravish, miscegenation, larceny, or
crimes against the election laws. ana
who shall have been a resident IN thls
State two years Except ministers ID
charge of organized churches and
teachers of public schools, and these
after six months residence In the
iState.) q 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 OH.
GERS shall be entitled to registration and:
become an elector upon application fo5'
such registration. If any person Eas;
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.
ling Of the Books OF Registration ana
before the election, and Is otherwise
qualified to register, makes applica-
ition Under oath showing he is quail
lied toregister, the Boards shall regis.
a|fertsuch applicant before the closing OF
Ethe books.
Any person whose qualifications as
ielector will be- completed after the
Z E6icsing Of the Registration Books but
fore the next election shall have the
fright tosapply for and secure regis
NATION certificate at any time within
5aixtyy days Immediately preceding
Ehe dosing of the Registration Books,
#unon an application under oath to the
tiacts emitting him to such registra-
! he registration of voters must be
Eby polling precincts. There must be a
book OF Registration for each polling
tpfecinct, that is for eacn township. or
l parish, or city, or town of less than
live thousand inhabitants, or ward of
tcIties of more than five thousand
Ifnhabitants. Each elector must vote
iingthe polling precinct in which he
Iresides. If there is more than one
voting place in the polling precinct,
the eIector 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
ia 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.,
= G. H. MOORE.
Board of Supervisors of Registration