The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1912-10-30
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NOTICE OF ELECTION.
State of South Carolina, County CT
Lexington.
Notice is hereby given that the Gen
eral Election for State and County Offl-
GERS will be held at the voting precincts
prescribed by law in said County, on
Tuesday, November 5, 1912, said day
being Tuesday following the first Mon
day in November, as prescribed by the
State Constitution.
The qualification for suffrage:
Managers of election shall require
of every elector offering to vote at any
election, before allowing him to vote,
the production of his registration GER
tifcate and proof of the payment of all
taxes, including poll tax, assessed
against him and collectible during the
previous year. The production OF a
certificate or of the receipt of the Of
hcer authorized to collect such taxes
shall be conclusive proof OF the pay
ment thereof. 49,.
There shall be separate and distinct
ballots at this election for the follow
ing officers. to wit: CD Governor and
Lieutenant Governor: (2) other State
officers; 60 Circuit Solicitor; (A
State Senator; (5) members OF House
OF Representatives 60 county ottcers.
On which shall be the name or names
of the person or persons voted tor as
s1cIr officers, respectively, and the Of
fee for which they are voted.
There shall be separate boxes IN
which said ballots are to be deposited,
and each ballot box shall be labeled IN
plain Roman letters with the office or
officers voted for.
Whenever a vote is to be taken on
any special question or questions a box
shall be provided, properly labeled tor
that purpose and the ballots therefor
on such question or questions shall be
DEPOSITED therein.
Before the hour fixed for opening the
polls Managers and Clerks must take
and subscribe the Constitutional oath.
The Chairman of the Board OF Mana
gers can administer the oath to the
other members and to the Clerk; NO
tary Public must administer the oath
to the Chairman. The Managers elect
their Chairman and Clerk.
Polls at each voting place must be
opened at 7 o'clock a. m. and closed at
4 o'clock p. m, except in the City OF
Charleston, where they shall be opened
at = a. m. and closed at E p. m. -
The Managers have the power TO NIL
a 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 Man
ayers and Clerk must proceed publicly
to open the ballot boxes and count the
ballots therein, and continue without
adjournment until the same is complet-
ed, and make a statement OF the result
for each office and sign the same. Within
three days thereafter the Chairman 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 writ
ten statements of the results OF the elec-
ton.
At the said election separate boxes
will be provided at which qualified elec-
tors will vote upon the adoption or re-
lection of an amendment to the State
Constitution, as provided in the follow
ing Joint Resolutions:
No. 582.
A Joint Resolution to Amend Section
7. Article VIII of the Constitution,
Relating to Municipal Bonded In
debtedness, by Adding a Provlso
Thereto as to the Town of Bishop
vile.
Section I. Be it resolved by the Cen
eral Assembly of the State of South
Carolina, That the following amend
ment to Section 7, Article VIII of the
Constitution of the State of South Car
olina, be agreed to: Add at the end
thereof the following words: PRO
vided, further, That the limitations i'm
posed BY this section and by Section 5
OF Ar. Gle X OF this Constitution, shall
not apply to the bonded indebtedness
incurred by the town of Bishopvllle, IN
the county of Lee, when the proceeds
of said bonds are applied exclusively to
aid in the building and purchase OF
rights-of-way of the South Carolina
Western Railway, or other railroad or
railroads, under such restrictions and
limitations as the General Assembly
may prescribe, and where the question
of incurring such indebtedness is sub.
mitted to the qualified electors of said
municipality, as provided in the Con-
stitution, upon the question of bonded
Indebtedness"
Sec. 2. That the question of adopting
this amendment shall be submitted at
the next general election for Represen-
tatives to the electors as follows: Those
in favor of the amendment will deposit
a ballot with the following words plain
ly written or printed thereon: "Consti-
tutional amendment to Section 7, Arti-
Gle VIII of the Constitution, relating to
municipal bonded Indebtedness, as pro-
posed by a Joint Resolution entitled "A
Joint Resolution TO amend Section 7,
Article VIII of the Constitution, relat-
ing to municipal bonded Indebtedness,
by adding a proviso thereto as to the
town of Bishopville'-Yes." Those op-
posed to said amendment shall cast a
ballot with the following words plainly
written or printed thereon: "Constitu-
tional amendment to Section 7, Article
VIII of the Constitution, relating to
municipal bonded Indebtedness, as pro-
posed by 2 TOint Resolution entitled A