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

OFFICE OF SUPERVISORS OF REGIS
TRATION, ABBEVILLE COUNTY.
Abbeville. 8. c., March 6, lsss
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-
tion, 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 Regfstra-
ton in the Court House, between the
hour 9 o'clock q. NJ, 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.
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
| 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, housebreaking,
receiving stolen goods, breach of trust
with fraudulent intent, fornicatlon,
sodomy, incest, assault with intent "
ravish, miscegenation, larceny, or
crimes against the election laws. and
who shall have been a 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
Section in the Constitution OF 1885, OF
can understand and explain any Sec
tion of said Constitution when read tC
him by the registration officer or offl.
GERS shall be entitled toreglstration anc
become an elector upon application fol
such registration. If any person has
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
ing of the Books of Registration anc
before the election, and is otherwise
qualified to register, makes appllcaaa
ton under oath showing he ls quail
fed to register, the Boards shall regis
ter such applicant before the closing o
the books.
Any person whose qualifications al
an elector will be completed after tn
closing of the Registration Books bu
before the next election shall have th'
right to apply for and secure a regis
tration certificate at any time within
sixty days Immediately preceding
the closing of the Registration Books
upon an application under oath to tn
facts emitting him to such registra
ton.
The registration of voters must b.
by polling precincts. There must be
Book of Registration for each polllnl
precinct, that is for eacn township. 0
parish, or city, or town of less tnal
five thousand Inhabitants, or ward
cities of more than five thousan'
inhabitants. Each elector must vot
, in the polling precinct in. which b
/, resides. IF there is more than on
3 voting place in the polling precinct
the elector may vote at any votin
place designated on the registration
certificate. The Boards must designat
, in the registration certificate the vol
ing place in the polling precinct q
which the elector is to vote. Ii ther
is more than one voting place in tn
polling precincts, the Boards shaI
designate on the certificate the votln
place selected by the elector.
S. S. BOLES,
w. A. LANIER.
G..H. MOORE.
Board of Supervisors of Registratlo