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NOTICE OF REGISTRATION
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
ABBEvILLE COUNTY.

ABBEvILLE COUNTY
OFFICE OF SUPERVISORS OF REGIS
TRATION, ABBEvILLE COUNTY.
Abbeviile, 8. c., March Q. 1888.
Notice IL hereby given that In accor.
dance with an Act Of the GENERA
Assembly, and In conformity With the
requirements Of the State Constitu..
ton. the books for the registration OF
all legally qualified voters, and Tor the
issuing oftransfers, ect., will be open
at the Office Of Supervisors OF Registra-
ton In the Court House, between the
hour 8 o'clock o. M. and 8 O'Clock p.
M. on the first Monday Of each
month, and kept open for three sue.
cessiye days in each month until
thirty days before the next general
election.
The Board OF Registration Is tho
Judge Of the qualifications OF all
applicants for registration every male
citizen of this Safe and Of the United
State. twenty-one years Of age, who ID
not An idiot Is not insane, is not
pauper supported at the public ex'
nense. and IL not confined IN any pub
Tic prison, and who has not been con-
yicted OF burglary, arson, obtaining
goods or money under fa,se pretenses
perjury, fryery, robbery. bribery,
adultery wife beatInp, hOusebreaRing,
receiving stolen goods, breach Of trust
with fraudulent intent, fOrDication,
,odomy, incest, assault with intent to
ravish, miscegenation, larceny, or
crimes against the election laws. and
ohio shall have been resident In this
State two years Except ministers ~
charge of organized churches and
teachers Of public schools. and these
after Fix months residence In the
Sta,e.) u resident In the County for
six months, and In polling precincy
four months, and who can read any
Section in the Constitution o. 1895, or
car understand and explain any sec
tion of said Constitution when read to
him by the registration officer or ON.
GERS shall be entitled to registration and
become an elector upon application for
Isuch registration. II any person has
lbeen convicted Of any Of the crimes
aforementioned, pardon OF tho
lGoyernor removes the disqualification.
| In case any minor who will become
ltwenty-One years OF age after the clos.
ling of the Books Of Regislration and
before the election, and IL otherwise
luualified to register, makes appiica-
tiop under oath showing he IL quail
fied to register, the Boards shall regis
ter such applicant before the closing OF
the books.
Any person whose qualifications %
an elector will be completed after the
closing of the Registration Books out
before the next election shall have the
right to apply for and secure o 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'
The registration Of voters must be
by polling precincts. There must 0e
Book OF Registration for each polling
precinct, that II for eacn township. oi
oarish. or city, or town Of less than
Ave thousand Inhabitants, or ward o.
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 at any voting
place designated OIL the registration
certificate. The Boards must designati
i'm the registration certificate the vot
ing place In the polling precinct ai
which the elector is 10 vote. IL there
In more than one voting place In tht
polling precincts, the Boards shal
designate on the certificate the voting
place selected by the elector.
S. S. BOLES,
w. A. LANIER.
q. II. MOORE.
Poard of Superyisnrs of Rexist ration