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| NOTICE OF REGISTRATION.
STATE OF. SOUTH CAROLINA,
ABBEVILLE COUNTY.

STATE OF SOUIH CA6OLlN ~
ABBEvILLE COUNTY.
OFFICE OF SUPERVISORS OF REGIS
TRATIoN, ABBEvILLE COUNTY.
Abbevlle, S. G., March 6, 1899.
Notice is hereby given that in aceor..
dance with all 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 o'clock p.
m., 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
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, frgery, rob berry, bribery,
adultery wife beating, housebreaRing,
receiving stolen goods, breach of trust
with fraudulent intent, fornication,
sodomy, incest, assault with intent t.
ravish, .Iscegenation, larceny, or
crimes a; ,ainst the election laws. and
who shal have been resident in this
State two yeagsatexcept ministers IN
charge of organized| cbuEehes ana
teachers of public schools, and eAese'
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
ton of said Constitution when read to
him by the registration officer or ofti-
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
Eaboyesmen toned, pardon of the
fGogernor removes the disqualification.
I'm case any minor who will become
ItWenty-one years of age after the clos
tihg OF the Books of Registration and
before the election, and is otherwise
qualified to register, makes appllca-
Etion under oath showing he is quail
| fed, to register, the Boards shall regis
Ite. such applicant before the closing OF
the books. =
|: Any person whose qualifications as
Ian elector will be completed after the
tciosing of the Registration Books but
before the next election shall have the
fright to apply for and secure regis
ftration certificate at any time within
lsixty days Immediately preceding
the closing OF the Registration Books,
upon an application under oath to the
facts entiuinghim to such registra-
|tion.
The registration of voters must be
by polling precincts. There must be a
Book OF Registration for each polling
Eprecinct, that is for eacn township. or
parish, or city, or town of less than
Five thousand Inhabitants, or ward Of
tcities of more than five thousand
ffnhabitants. Each elector must vote
Fin the polling precinct in which he
tresfdes. If there is more than one
ltvoting place in the polling precinct,
3he eiector may vote at any v0tlhSg
place designated on the registration
Ecertificate. The Boards must designate
Iih.ths registration certificate the vot-
Hing place in the polling precinct at
EWhiehthe elector is to vote. If there
fismpref than one voting place in the
tpolling precincts, the Boards shall
designate on the certificate the voting
place selected by the elector.
J. D. CARWILE,
s. s. BOLES,
"a ~ w. A. LANIER.
Board of Supervisors of Registration