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NOTICE OF REGISTRATION.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
ABBEvILLE COUNTY.
OFFICE OF SUPERVISORS OF REGIS
TRATION, ABBEVILLE COUNTY.

Abbeville, s. c., March O, 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, aud for the
issuing of transfers, ect., will be open
at the office of Supervisors Of Reglstra-
tion in the Court House, between the
hour g o'clock q. 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 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. y nited
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, 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
lSection in the Constitution of 1895, or
lean understand and explain any Sec
|tien of said Constitution when read to
fhim by the registration officer or Off
lcers shall be entitled to registration and
become an elector upon application for
fsnch registration. If any person has
Ibeen convicted of any of the crimes
aforementioned, pardon of the
fGoyernor removes the disqualification.
lY In case any minor who will become
ttwenty-one years of age after the clos
ling OF the Books of egistration and
tbefOre the election and is otherwise
fauaisfied to registe = makes ;applica-
ttf0n under oath showing he Is quail
lied to register the Boards. shall regis
tter such applicant beforethe closing Of
1.-The books, i,., q ~
ANY person whose qualifications as
lana lect0r will be completed after the
fclosihg sOf, the Registration Books but
Ihefore the, next election shall have the
fright sto apply forsand secure a regis
itrati0n caTtafcate at any time within
lsfxtv dSSs Immediately, preceding
jthe closilgsSf the Registration Books,
upon an nppli ieat4on under oath to the
facts emu ding him to such registras
nss fsSi stration of voters must BE-
tbsy polliHE precincts. There must bera
BOOK Of Registration for each polling
tpfeoinct that Is for eacn township: .tor
partsh, or city, or town ofsless chan
i've thousand Inhabitants, or ward Of
teftfes of more than five thousand
Each elector must vote
| In the polling precinct lin 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.
G. H. MOORE.
Board of Supervisors of Regis tration