The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1904-05-05
NOTICE OF ELECTION.

For Representative IN congress-, IN Sec
ond Congressional District-State of
South Carolina, County of Bamberg.
Notice is hereby given that an election
for representative in congress, in accord
ance with the laws for holding general
elections, for congressman, for the second
congressional district, to serve for the re-
mainder of the term for which the late
Hon. George w. Croft was elected, win
be held at the voting precincts fixed by
law in the county of Bamberg on Tuesday,
the 18th day of May, A. D., 1904.
The qualifications for suffrage are as
follows:
Residence in the State for two years, in
the county one year, in the polling pre-
cinct in which the elector offers to vote
four months, and Repayment six months
before any election of any poll tax then
due and payable: Provided, That minist-I
ers in charge of an organized church and
teachers of public schools shall be entitled
to vote after six months residence in the
State, if otherwise qualified.
Registration.
Payment of all taxes, including poll tax,
assessed and collectible during the previ-
Gus year. The production of certificate
or of receipt of the officer authorized
to collect such taxes shall be conclusive
proof of the payment thereof.
Before the hour fixed for opening the
polls managers and clerks must take and
subscribe the constitutional oath. The
chairman of the board of managers can
administer the oath to the other managers
and to the clerk; notary public must adj
minister the oath to the chairman. The
managers elect their chairman and clerk. {
Polls at each voting place must be
opened at Z o'clock a. m, and close at
p. m.
The managers have the power to fill
vacancy, and if none of the managers at
tend the citizens can appoint from among
the qualified voters the managers, who, af-
ter being sworn, can conduct the election.
At the close of the election the mana
gers and clerk must proceed publicly to
open the ballot boxes and count the
ballots therein, and continue without ad-
journment until the same is completed,
and make a statement of the result and
sign the same.
Within three days thereafter, the chair
man of the board or some one designated
by the board, must deliver to the Com
missioners of Election the poll list, the
boxes containing the ballots and written
statements of the result of the election. 4
Commissioners of Federal Election,
Bamberg County, April %, 1904.
You are hereby appointed manager
of election at-precinct and you are re-
quired to be at Bamberg court house on
Saturday, the 18th day of May, 1904, to
take the oath and receive boxes and in-
structioDs, etc. Herein fail not.
F. NJ. SIMMONS,
/. w. CARTER,
J.P. MATHEW,
Commissioners of Federal Election for
Bamberg County.
The following managers Of election
have been appointed to hold the election :
in the various precincts in the said county:
Bamberg-G. P. Harmon, H. w. Adams,
G. A. Jennings.
Denmark-E. e. Behling, G. J. Fogle,
Asa Baxter.
Ehrhardt-G. J. HERS, G. B. Clayton,
S. W. Copeland.
Kearse-J. J. Kearse, L. A. Brabhan,
II. w. Chitty.
Midway-J. B. Smith, H. W. Walker,
Il. W. Dempsey.
Olar-E. D. Bessinger, D. McNab, w. i
E. Sadler.
Govan-J. A. Lain, J. A. Kennedy,
Furman Cook.
Farrell's Store-G. w. Miley, W. G.
Zeigler, J. B. Mccormack. -
The managers at each precinct named
above are requested to delegate one OF
their number to secure the necessary
boxes and blanks for the election. They
can be secured on Saturday, May 18th,
1904, at the court house in Bamberg.
F. NJ. SIMMONS,
I. w. CARTER,
J. P. MATHENY,
Commissioners of Federal Election for
Bamberg County.
Bamberg, S. c., April 26, 1904.