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NOTICE or REGISTRATION
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
ABBEvILLE COUNTY.


OFFICE OF SUPERVISORS OF REGIS
TRATION, ABBEvILLE COUNTY.
Abbeville, 8. e., March .. ls9a
Notice IL 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-
ton in the Court House, between the
hour 8 o'clock q. 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.
The Board of Registration Is th
Judge of the qualifications of al
applicants for registration every male
citizen of this State and of the United
State, twenty-one years of age, who Is
not an idiot Ia not insane, is not
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 ~
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 aud
teachers of public schools, and these
after Fix months residence in the
State,) q resident In the County for
six months, and In polling precincy
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 sbaR be entitled to reglstraion.and
becoms are eslector upon application for
such ree5dt5Stiop. II any person has
been c0nsioteas of any Of the crimes
aboye-mer1ti0ned, - pardon Of the
Goyerncr SeS,a0vest the disqualification.
In case any nipnk who will become
twenty.one wears nf eee after the clos
inc of the Books II RegiAtration and
be3ure the election. and Il otherwise
qualified to registeF, makes Applica-
ton under oath showing ne y quail
fed to register, the Bot4ffas shall re8is.
ter such applicant before the oics-ng o.
the books. L.sz
Any person whose qualificStIoDe -
an elector will be completed anex tne
closing of the Registration Books gqt
before the next election shall have the
right to apply for and secure D regis-S
tration certificate at any time within
sixty days Immediately preceding
the closing Of the Registration Books,
upon al application under oath TO the
facts emitting him to such registra-
ton.
by polling precincts. There must be q
Book Of Registration for each polling
precinct, that Ii for eacn township. or
narish. or city, or. town OF less than
Ave thousand Inhabitants, or ward OF
cities of more than five thousand
inhabitapts. Each electOr must vote
i'm the polling precinct In which ne
resides. III there is more than one
voting place in the polling precinct,
the eIector may vote ut any voting
place designated on the registration
certificate. The Boards must designate
I'm the registration certificate the vot-
ing place in the polling precinct at
which the elector il to vote. If there
ia more than one voting place in the
polling precincts, the Boards shall
designate Oh the certificate the voting
place selected by the elector.
8. S. BOLES,
w. A. LANIER.
G.. II. MOORE.
Board OF Supervisors Of Registration