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NOTICE OF REGISTRATION.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
ABBEvILLE COUNTY.
OFFICE OF SUPERVISORS OF REGIS
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ABBEVILLE COUNTY.
OFFICE OF SUPERVISORS OF REGIS
TRATION, ABBEvILLE COUNTY.
Abbeville, s. G., March 6, 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 Constltuee
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 8. 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 unu!
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 S.ate and of the United
State, twenty-one years Of age, who ls
not an idiot is not insane, ls not
pauper supported at the pubic ex-
pense, and is not confined in any pup
| tic 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, housebreaklng,
receiving stolen goods, breach OF trust
with fraudulent intent, fornicat!on,
sodomy, incest, assault with intent to
ravish, miscegenation. larceny, OF
crimes against the election laws anu
who shall have been resident IN ibis
State two years Except ministers III
charge of organized cburches anu
teachers of public schools. and these
after six months residence IN the
State,) resident in the County for
six months, and in polling precincy
four months, and who can read any
Section in the Constitution of 1898, or
can understand and explain any Sec
tjon 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 1or
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
ltwenty-one years of age after the clos.
ing of the Books of Registration ana
be{ure the. election. and is otherwise
'Iaualified to register, makes appllca-
,tfion under oath showing he is quail
4 fled to register, the Boards shall regis
ter such applicant before the CLOSING Oh
Il the books. :,
= ANY person whose qualifications as
Ian elector will be completed after the
4 closing of the Registration Books oqt
4 sIbefore the next election shall have the
fright to apply5for and secure regis
,Jfration certificate at any time within
1lsIxty days Immediately preceding
Ithe closing of the Registration Books,
q mon an application under oath to the
Il facts emitting him to such reglstra'
tItion,
]. q The registration of voters must be
q by polling precincts. There must be a
lBook OF Registration for each polling
4 ftprecinct, that is for eacn township. or
Il parish, or city, or town of less than
lAsaiiye Il thousand inhabitants, or ward OF
Il cities of more than five thousand
!, ,lfnhabitants. Each elector must vote
lin the polling precinct in which ne
resides. If there is more than one
1yoting place in the polling precinct,
! the eIector may vote at any voting
|, place designated on the registration
J Jeartifcate. The Boards must designate
4 lin the registration certificate the vot.
Sing place in the polling precinct at
: ,,iW6ichsth the elector is to vote. If there
q IL more than one voting place in the
lfpoiltpg precincts, the Boards shall
= Edesipnate on the certificate the voting
!, ,tpiace selected by the elector.
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D Board ofSuperyisors of Regis tration