Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1911-03-22

Creek, thence up the middle line OF
Big Stevens Creek to the mouth OF
Rocky Creek, thence up the middle
line of Rocky Greek to the Able
vile and Edgefeld County line to
the beginning point"
Such courses and distances as are
set forth on plat of G. J. DeCamps
and J. B. Marshall, Jr., Surveyors,
dated October 3lst, 1910, and filed
with the report of the Commission
ers, reference to which can be made
as often as may be necessary.
And Whereas, the boundaries as
above set off from Edgefeld coun,
ty are sought to be annexed to
Greenwood County and the other
facts required to be stated by the
constitution and laws are set out in
the petition,
And Whereas, the report of the
commissioners appointed by Cover.
moi Ansel to ascertain the facts as
provided for by law as to whether
the provisions of the constitution
and laws of the State as 10 popula-
lation, area, wealth, distance from
the court house in EdgeGeld County,
ct cetera. have been complied with,
was filed in this office on the 18th
day of November, 1919, which re.
port states that the law has been
complied with, leaving not less than
five hundred square miles in Edge
field County, and not less than Two
Million Dollars of taxable property
and that the population of the said
County of Edgefeld will not be re-
duced to less than fifteen thousand
inhabitants and that the proposed
lines do not run nearer than eight
miles to the court house of Edge
field County nor pass through any
incorporated town,
Now, therefore, /, Cole L. Blease,
as Governor of the State of South
Carolina, by virtue of the power
conferred upon me by the cons titu-
tion and laws of this State, do here
by order:
First: That an election be held
in The territory embraced within
the proposed lines aforesaid on the
eleventh day of April A. ID. 1911,
upon the question of annexing said
territory to the County of Green
wood and that at said election the
qualified electors within the pro-
posed area shall be allowed to vote
upon said question, those favoring
the proposed annexation to vote
Yes" and those opposing to vote
''No."
Second: That the commissioners
of election for State and County
Officers of Edgefeld County shall
make all necessary arrangements
for holding said election, shall ap-
point managers and do all other
things necessary for the holding of
said election; that the County Su-
pervisor for Edgefeld County shall
have prepared printed tickets and
furnish same to the commissioners
of election to be sent out to the
managers of election for the use of
the voters.
Third: That said election shall
be held under the same rules and
regulations as are provided by law
for regular county elections; that
the managers shall be sworn before
entering upon the discharge of their
duties, open the polls at seven
o'clock in the morning and keep
same open until four o'clock in the
afternoon when the polls shall be
closed, the votes count e d,
return of the number OF
votes polled for and against, signed
and certified to by the managers of
election, which, together with the
ballot box, ballots and poll lists
shall be turned over to the commits
sioners of election as required by
law; that the commissioners of cleo
tion shall then, as required by law,
tabulate the vote and make return
thereof to the Governor of the
State and to the Secretary of State
and file a copy of same with the
Clerk of Court of Common Pleas
for Edgefeld County.
In Testimony Whereof, Ihave here
unto set my hand and caus-
ed the Great Seal of State
to be affixed at Columbia,
IL. s.. South Carolina, this second
day of March A. d., 1911,