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NOTICE OF REGISTRATION
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
ABBEyILLE COUNTY.

ABBEvILLE COUNTY.
OFFICE OF SUPERVISORS OF REGIS
TRATION, ABBEvILLE COUNTY.
Abbeville, 9. C.. March 8. 1892
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-
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'
tion In the Court House, between the
hour 8 o'clock q. M. and o'clock p
m, on the first Monday Of each
month, aud kept open for three sue.
cessive days In each month until
thirty days before the next general
election.
The Board OF Registration Ii thu
Judge Of the qualifications Of all
applicants for registration every male
citizen Of this State aud Of the United
State, twenty-one years Of age, who Ii
not an Idiot Ii not insane, is not q
pauper supported at the public ex.
pense, and Ii 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, ftrgery, robbery. bribery,
adultery wife beating, hOusebreaRing,
recriving stolen goods, breach Of trust
with fraudulent intent, fOrnication,
sodomy, incest, assault with intent t.
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 Fix months residence In the
Sts,e,) q resident In the County for
six months, and in polling precincy
four months, and who eau 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 offi.
GERS shall be entitled to registration and
become an elector upon application for
such repatriation. II any person has
been convicted Of any Of the crimes
aforementioned, o pardon OF the
Governor removes the disquali itication.
In case any minor who will become
twenty.ons years Of age after the clos
ing of the Books of Registration and
before the election, and Ii 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 as
an elector will be completed after the
closing of the Registration Books but
before the next election shall have the
right to apply for aud 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 10 such registra-
ton.
The registration Of voters must he
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
five thousand inhabitants, ar ward OF
cities OF niure than live thousand
inhabitants. Each eleclOr must vote
In the polling precinct in which he
resides. II there Is more than one
voting place in the polling precinct,
the elect0r may vote ut any voting
place designated on the registration
The Boards must designate
In the registration certificate the vot-
ing place in the polling precinct at
which the electOr is 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. :. BOLES,
w. A. LANIER.
q. II. MOORE.
Board of Supervisors Of Registration