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NOTICE OF REGISTRATION
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
ABBEvILLE COUNTY.

OFFICE OF SUPERVISORS or REGIS
TRATIoN, ABBEvII.LE COUNTY.
Abbeviiie. 8. C.. March o, Issa
Notice 10 hereby given that in accor.
dance with an Act Of the General
Assembly, and in conformity with the
requirements Of the State Constitn-
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-
tioR In the Court House, between the
hour 8 o'clock q. M, and 8 O'Clock D
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 tha
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 10
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 Ia this
State two years Except ministers In
charge of organized churches and
teachers of public schools. and these
after Fix 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 1896, or
can understand and explain any SEQ
ton Of said Constitution when read 70
him by the registration officer or OFF,
GERS shall be entitled to repatriation and
become an elector upon application for
such registration. II any person has
been convicted of any Of the crimes
aforementioned, pardon Of the
Governor removes the disqualifi
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 quail
fed to register, the Boards shall regis
ter such applicant before the closing Of
the books.
Any person whose qualifications a.
an elector will be completed after the
closing of the Registration Books but
tnfo.a kt,a vawf olaoffo,, akan haxya the
right to apply for and secure regis
tration certificate ut 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.
The registration Of voters must be
by polling precincts. There must be q
Book OF Registration for each polling
precinct, that Is for eacn township. or
parish, or city, or town OF less than
1--we thousand Inhabitants, or ward Of
cities of more than five thousand
inhabitants. Each elector must vote
In the polling precinct In which he
resides. II there is more than one
voting place in the polling precinct,
the eiectOr may vote Mt any voting
place designated on the registration
certificate. The Boards must designats
In the registration certificate the vot-
ing place in the polling precinct at
which. the elector 10 to vote. II 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. II. MOORE.
Board OF Supervisors Of Registration