The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1906-10-31
The Lexington Dispatch.
Wednesday, October 81, 1906.
NOTICE OF ELECTION.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
County Of Lexington.


E Notice is hereby given that the
General Election for State and County
-Oacers will. be. held at the voting pre-.
cincts prescribed by law in said coun-
ty, on Tuesday, November 8; 1906,
said day being Tuesday following the
first Monday in November, as pre-.
-scribed by law; -
!, At the said election pearatebox will
be provided at which qualified electors
will vote upon the adoption or rejec-
ton of an amendment to the State
Constitution, as provided in the fol-
lowing Joint Resolution:
A Joint Resolution Proposing to
Amend Section Z, Article VIII, of the
Constitution, Relating to Municipal
Bonded debtedness.
Section L. Be it resolved by the
General Assembly of the State of
South Carolina, That the following
amendment to Section z, of Article
VIII, of the Constitution, be agreed
to: add at the end thereof the follow
ing words: Provided, further, That
the limitations imposed by this Sec
ton and by Section of Article x, of
this Constitution, shall not apply to
the bonded Indebtedness incurred by
the City of Bennettsville, where the
proceeds of said bonds are applied
solely and exclusively for the purchase,
tablishment and maintenance Of a
water works plant or sewerage system
and where the question of incurring
such indebtedness is submitted to the
freeholders and qualified voters of
such municipality, as provided in the
Constition upon the question of other
bonded Indebtedness.
Approved the 23d day of February,
A. d. 1905.
There shall be separate and distinct
ballots and boxes at this election for
the following officers, to wit: (1)
Governor and Lieutenant Governor; :;
(2) Other State Officers; O. State
Senator; {4) Members of House of
Representatives; % County Officers.
On which shall be the name Or names
of the person Or persons voted for as
such officers, respectively, and the
Office for which they are voted. --=.s"
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 members and to the Clerk !;
Notary Public must administer the
oath to the Chairman. The Managers
elect their Chairman and Clerk.
Polls at each voting place must be
olsned at z O'Clock a, m, and closed
at O'clock p. ra,, except in the City
OF Charleston, where they shall be
opened att a. m. and closed at p. M.
The Managers have the power to fill
vacancy, and if none of the Man
ayers attend the citizens can appoint
from among the qualified voters, the
Managers, who, after being sworn,
can conduct the election.
At the close of the election, the
Managers and Clerk must proceed
publicly to open the ballot boxes and
count the ballots therein, and con ntinue
without adjournment until the same
is completed, and make statement
of the result for each Office and sign
the same Within three days there
after, the Chairman of the Board, or
some one designated by the Board,
must deliver to the Commissioners of
Election the poll list. the boxes con-
tanning the ballots and written state
ments OF the results of the election.
Managers of Election.-The follow
ing Managers of Election have been
appointed to hold the election at the
various precincts in the said county.
Lexington. John M. Caughman, D.
Frank Kleckley, J. G. tinker.
T. j. Drafts Stored. F. Price,
John L. Hallman, T. P. Drafts.
Leesville. Fl. Rawl, Tyre Ethe-
redge, A. P. West.
Lewiedale.-R. T.. Craps, S. S. Lind
Ter, S. E. Taylor.
Gaston.-Geo. W. Pound, D. Fl.
Huckabaa, G.. s. Goodwin.
Lands Mill.-Morgan Laird, j. w.
Starns, Jr., Thomas Craft.
Emo.-A. M. Dreher, Thomas II.
Shuler, J. E. Lorick.
Ballentine.-S. j. Riddle, Geo. S.
Balletine, Bachman Derrick.
Chapin.-W. P. Betehman, Robert
P. Slice, VIII Cum aiander.
Efrd's Store.-J. W. Mayer, c. P.
Cannon, G. n. Frick.
paok,S Station -Iohn n Suyoert