Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1914-10-22
NOTICE OF ELECTION.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. COUNTY
OF YORK.

OF Okk.
Notice is hereby given that the Gem
eral Election for State and County Of
ficers will be held at the voting pre-
cincts prescribed by law in said county,
on Tuesday, November 8, 1914, said day
being Tuesday following the first Mon
day in November, as prescribed by the
State Constitution.
The qualifications 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
tificate and proof of the payment of all
taxes, inclucing poll tax, assessed
against him and collectible during the
previous year. The pr ducton of a
certificate or of the receipt of the Of
ficer authorized to collect such taxes
shall be conclusive proof of the pay
ment thereof.
There shall be separate and distinct
ballots at this election for the follow
Lieutenant Governor: (2) Other State
Officers: (3) Circuit Solicitor; a. State
Senator; (O Members of House of
Representatives; (6) County Officers.
On which shall be the name or names
of the person or persons voted for as
such officers, respectively, and the Of
iice for which they are voted.
There shall be separate boxes in which
said ballots are to be deposited and
each ballot box shall be labelled in plain
Roman letters with the Office or officers
voted for.
Whenever vote is to be taken on
any special question or questions box
shall be provided, properly labelled for
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 to the Constitutional
oath. The Chairman of the Board of
Managers can administer the oath to
the other members and to the Clerk; a
Notary Public must administer the oath
2 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 closed at
O'Clock p. m, except in the city of
Charleston, where they shall be opened
at Z. a. m. and closed Il 6 p. m.
The Managers have the power to fill
vacancy, and if none of the managers
attend. the citizens, can appoint from
among the qualified voters, the man.
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 COM
pleted. and make statement of the
result for each Office and sign the SAME.
Within three days thereafter, the chair
man of the board, or someone desg
mated by the board. must deliver to the
commissioners of election the poll list,
the boxes containing the ballots and
written statements of the result of the
election.
At the said election separate boxes
will be provided at which qualified
electors will vote upon the adoption or
Constitution, as provided i'm the follow
ing Joint Resolutions:
A JOINT RESOLUTION to Amend
Section o, Article ii. of the Consti-
tuition. by Adding Thereto, on Line
Three. After the Word college"
and Before the Word ''the, the Fol
lowing: South Carolina School for
the Deaf and Bind, Located at Cedar
Springs"
Section 1. South Carolina School for
Deaf and Blind-Amendment to Con-
stitution. BE it resolved by the Gen
eral Assembly of the State of South
Carolina, That the following amend
ment to Section 8, Article =, of tie
Constitution of South Carolina, be
agreed tn by a two-thirds vote of the
members elected 10 each House, and
entered on the Journals, respectively.
xxYIt A, 0.NA t.ly 49,, Il
be submitted to the qualified electors
of the State at the next general election
thereafter for Representatives. to wit (.
Add the following words to Section S.
Articie2 of the Constitution. after he
word college" and before the word
1.-The. on line three of said section.
''South Carolina Scho ! for the Dsaf.
and Blind, located at Cedar Springs, -
40 that said section, when SO amended
ia to be and be known as Section 3, Ar
ticle .. and shall read as follows:
Section 3. The General Assembly
may provide for the maintenance Of
Clemson Agri cultural College. South
Carolina School for the ID. af and Blind.
located ut Cedar Springs, the Univer-
sity of South Carolina and the VIM
'thf"p Normal and Industri / TO leg". IL
branch thereof. as now established by
'A"' "'"' io. eieatc StnoldisIilpS tntre-
III; the proceeds realized from the land
script given 10y tn Act of Congress.
passed the second d'y of July, i'm the
gear eighteen hundred and siXty-tyo.
i"r the support OF an agricultural col
iegr. AMI any ianus OF funds v hch have
heretofore been or may hereafter he
given or appropriated for educational
purposes by the Congress OF the United
States. shall be- applied as directed in
tn acts appropriatng the same. Pro-
v.ded, That the General Ass emily shall.
IA soon as prac icable, rhoily separate
Clafiin college from Clafiin university
and provide Tor separate corps of pro-
feSsors and instructors therein. reprc-