Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1914-10-21
NOTICE OF ELECTION.
State of South Carolina,
County Of Ocnnen

precincts prescribed by law in said
county on TUESDAY, NOVEBMER 3,
1914, said day being Tuesday follow
ing the frSt Monday 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 registra-
tion certificate and proof Of the pay
ment Of all taxes, including poll tax,
assessed against him and collectible
during the previous year The pro-
duction Of certificate or Of the re-
ceipt of the officer authorized to col
lect such taxes shall be conclusive
proof of the payment thereof.
There shall be separate and distinct
ballots at this election for the follow
ing officers, to wit: Cd Governor
and Lieutenant Governor; CD Other
State Officers; CD Members of
House Of Representatives.; (4)
County Officers. On which shall be
the name or names of the person or
persons voted for as such officers, re-
spectively, and the Office 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 vote is to be taken on
any special question or questions a
box shall be provided, properly liable
ed for that purpose, and the ballots
therefor Oil such question or QueS-
tions shall be deposited therein.
Before the hour fixed for opening
the polls Managers and Clerks must
take and subscribe to the Constitu-
tional 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 to the Chairman.
The Managers elect their Chairman
and Clerk
Polls at each voting place must be
opened at Z o'clock a. III. and closed
at o'clock p. M, except in the City
Of Charleston, whore they shall be
opened at a. m. and closed at 6
D. m.
The Managers have the power to
fill vacancy; and if none Of the
Managers attend, the citizens can ap-
point, from among the qualified vot-
ers, 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-
tinue without adjournment until the
same is completed and make state
ment of the result Cor 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 Commits
sioners Of Election the poll list, the
boxes containing the ballots and writ
ten statements OF the results OF the
election.
At the said eelction separate boxes
will be provided at which qualified
electors will vote upon the adoption
or rejection Of an amendment to the
State Constitution, as provided III the
following Joint Resolutions:
No. 542.
A Joint Resolution to Amend Sec
tion s, Article II, of the Constitution,
by Adding Thereto, on Line Three.
After the Word college" and Be-
fore the Word the" the Following:
South Carolina School for the Deaf
and Blind, Located at Cedar Springs"
Section l. South Carolina School
for Deaf and Blind-Amendment to
Constitution.-Be it resolved by the
General Assembly Of the State of
South Carolina, That the following
amendment to Section s, Article ii,
OF the Constitution OF the State of
South Carolina, be agreed to by a
tWo-thirds vote of the members elect
ed to each House, and entered on the
Journals, respectively, with yeas and
nays taken thereon, and be submitted
to the qualified electors of the State
l, -
ter for Representatives, to wit: Add
the following words to Section 8, Ar
ticle ii, of the Constitution, after the
word college" and before the word
the" on line three Of said section,
South Carolina School for the Deaf
and Blind, located at Cedar Springs"
so that said section, when so amend
ed, is to be and be known as Section
s, Article IL, and shall read as fol-
lows:
Section 8. The General Assembly
may provide for the maintenance of
Clemson Agricultural College, South
Carolina School for the Deaf and
Blind, located at Cedar Springs, the
University of South Carolina, and the
Winthrop Normal and Industrial Col
lege, branch thereof, as now estab-
lished by law, and may create scholar
ships therein; the proceeds realized
from the landScript given by the Act
Of Congress. passed the second day Of
July, in the year eighteen hundred
and siXty-two, for the support Of an
agricultural college, and any lands or
funds which have heretofore been or
may hereafter be given or appropri-
ated for educational purposes by the
Congress Of the United States, shall
be applied as directed in the Acts ap-