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notice OF REGISTRATION.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
ARREYILLE COUNTY. ~

ABBEvILLE COUNTY. ssjl
OFFICE OF SUPERVISORS OF REGIS
TRATION, ABBEvILLE COUNTY. ssSi
Abbeville. s. G., March 8, 1899.
Notice is hereby given that in accor.s
dance with an Act of the General
and in conformity with the
requirements of the State Constitu-a
ton, the books for the registration of
all legally qualified voters, and for the T
issuing of transfers, ect., will be open
at the office of Supervisors of Registra-
ton in the Court House, betweenethe
hour 8 o'clock 8. M, and 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. 81.
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 isf
not an idiot is not insane, is not g..
pauper supported at the public ex-s
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 pretensesi
perjury, forgery, robbery, bribery,
adultery wife beating, nsebfeaking,
receiving stolen goods, breach OF trust
with fraudulent intent, fOrnicati0n,
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 elk months residence, In the
State,) a resident in the County for
six months, and in polling precfncy
four months, and who can read any
Section in the Constitution Of 1885, or
can understand and explain any Sec
ton of said Constitution when read TO;
him by the registration officer or Off
GERS shall be entitled toEeglstration and
become an elector upon application Tor:
such registration. If any person has
been convicted of any Of the crimes
aforementioned, a pardon Of the
Governor removes the disqualif ation.;
In case any minor who will become
twenty-one years Of age after the clos;
ing of the Books of Registration and
before the election, and Is otherwise
qualified to register, makes applica-;
ton under oath showing he Is quaii-.
fed to register, the Boards shall regis
ter such applicant before the closing Of
the books. Il 81 ,s
Any person whose qualifications as
an elector will be completed after the
closing of the Registration Books tbnt,
before the next election shall have the
right to apply for and secure 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. sFff
The registration of voters must be-
by polling precincts. There must bea
Book of Registration for each polling.
precinct, that is for eacn township. or
parish, or city, or town Of less than
| i've thousand inhabitants, or ward Of
cities of more than flve 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. III 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. 8. BOLES,
w. A. LANTER. 4
G.. H. MOORE.
Board of Supervisors of Registration