The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1913-02-14
HOUSE RECEIVES
NEW PRIMARY LAW
To Regulate Elections-Bill to Create
and Regulate Boards of Regis
tratiOn-Other Provisions
Given.

substitute bill for the several
measures providing for changing the
primary law was reported in the
house yesterday. The substitute
measure will Rave the centre of the
stage when the house takes up the
matter of changing the primary law.
The substitute bill follows:
ITO regulate primary elections IN
South Carolina and create and regu-
late boards of registration for pri-
mary and general elections.
"Be it enacted by the general as
sembly of the State of South Caro-
lima:
Section l. That all political par
ties in South Carolina which cast as
many as 10000 votes for the head of
their ticket at any general election
shall be entitled to have registration
for voters in their primary elections
in the next succeeding election year
for the nomination of officers. BY
the term head of ticket is meant
the governor, where the party runs
a State ticket, and the presidential
electors, where only a national ticket
is run by a party.
"Sec. 2. On or before February
of each election year there shall be
appointed board of three men for
each county to be known as the board
'of primary registration, who shall be
qualified electors Of the county and
shall be appointed by the governor on
the nomination of the majority of the
delegation in the general assembly,
by and with the advice and consent
of the senate, who shall give bond
in the sum dollars each, and
be entitled to salary each election
year of-dollars to be paid by
the county treasurer as other county
claims are paid, and whose etrm of
office shall expire when their success
sors have been appointed and quail
flied
"Sec. 3. The secretary Of state
, shall on or before the 1st W of
March of any election year furnish
to the board of primary registration
of each county registration books III
duplicate and certificate blanks to
be paid for by the State for every e.
lection precinct in the respective
counties for each party entitled to
register hereunder, in which the vot-
ers shall be registered under the pro-
visions of this act.
Open Every Day.
? "Sec. a. That on the first of Aprn
of each election year the board of
primary registration shall open the
books for primary registration and
shall keep them open until the first
day of August of said year, and said
books shall be open every day in the
week, except Sundays and holidays
at the court of said county, that the
said board shall attend at least one
day in each township and in wards
of cities paying $4,000 inhabitants
during the first registration under
this act. The said supervisors shall
give three weeks notice of the time
and place of opening books at the va
rious precincts in some newspaper
published in the county.
"Sec. 5. That no person shall be
permitted to register unless he has
been resident of the State one year,
and the county three months and the
precinct 30 days, and shall be 21
years old and entitled, under the
rules of the party in which he offers
to register, to vote in said party prl-
will be 21 years of age before the
next general election and is other
wise qualified, shall be entitled to
register.
Must Take Usual Oath.
Sec. 6. The person desiring to
register shall take the oath that he
is qualified, under the rules of the
party and requirements of this act,
to register and state his age ana
place of residence, and if in a city
where the houses are numbered, the
number of the residence in which he
resides, and if the houses are not
numbered he shall state the street
and block on which he resides, and
shall, on complying with said terms,
be registered and receive certificate
thereof which shall state the precinct
the name and number Of the voter
and his place of residence, and the
name shall be entered on the regis
tration books, numbered as it is num-
bered on the certificate, the names
at each precinct to be numbered con-
secutlvely from one up-as regis