Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1914-10-28
Notice Of Election:
State of South Carolina,
County Of Edgefeld.


County Of Edgefeld.
Notice is hereby given that the
General Election for State and
County Officers will be held at the
voting precincts prescribed by law
in said county, Tuesday, November
8, 1914, said day being Tuesday
following the first Monday in No
vember, as prescribed by the State
Constitution.
The qualification for suffrage:
Managers of election shall re-
quire of every elector offering to
vote at any election, before allow
ing him to vote, the production of
his registration certificate and proof
of the payment of all taxes, includ-
ing poll tax assessed against him
collectible during the previous year.
The production OF certificate or
the receipt of the officer authorized
to collect such taxes shall be con-
elusive proof of the payment thereof.
There shall be separate aud dis
tinct ballots at this election for the
following officers, to-wit: (l) Gov
ernor and Lieutenant Governor; (2)
Other State Officers; (3) Circuit So
1ic;tor. (A) State Senator: (5)Mem-
bers 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 Office
for which they are voted.
There shall be separate boxes In
which said ballots are to be deposit
ed and each ballot box shall be Ia
beled in plain Roman letters with
the Office or officers voted for.
Whenever vote is to be taken
on special question or questions a
box shall be provided, properly la
beled for that purpose, and the bal
lots therefor on such question or
questions shall be deposited there
in.
Before the hour fixed for open
ing the polls Managers and Clerks
must take and subscribe to the Con
stitutional oath. The Chairman Of
the Board of Managers can admin
lister the oath to the other members
and to the Clerk; 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 O'Clock and closed at
4 O'Clock p. M, except in the City
of Charleston, where they shall be
opened at Z a. NJ, and closed a 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 Managers, who after be-
ing 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
continue without adjournment until
the same is completed, and make
statement of the result for each
Office and sign the same. Within
three days thereafter, the Chairman
of the Board, or some one designa-
ted by the Board, must deliver to
the Commissioners Of Election the
poll list, the boxes containing the
ballots and written statements of
the results of the election.
At the said election separate boxes
will be provided at which qualified
electors will vote upon the adop-
tion or rejection of an amendment
to the State Constitution, as provi
ded in the following Joint Resolu-
tion.
No. 542.
A JointR Resolution to amend Sec
tion s, Article II, OF the Consti-
tuition, by adding thereto on line
three, after the word College"
and before 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
the Constitution. it resolved
by the General Assembly Of the
State of South Carolina, That the
following amendment of Section s,
Article III, of the Constitution of
the State of South Carolina, be
agreed to by a two-thira vote of the
members elected to each House and
entered on the Journals, respective
ly with yeas and nays taken thereon,
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