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FORM OF BALLOT

Greenwood Counties, held Decem-
Der 14th. 1915.
Shall the new county be formed?
Yes.
No.
What shall be it's name?
Where shall the county seat be
located?
II. That at said election the ques-
ton of a name and a county seat for
said proposed new county shall also
be submitted to the said qualified
electors.
IL. That said election shall be
held ard conducted under the same
rules ard regulations as provided for
by law for regular and general elec-
lions. That the commissioners of
election shall appoint managers OF
election as provided for by law, who
shall be sworn before entering upon
the discharge of their duties as pro-
vided for by law, and they shall open
and close the polls as provided for by
law. In case no voting place now
established by law shall exist in any
part of the territory by reason of
the voting place of the voters resid-
ing in this territory being on the out
side of the lines of the proposed new
county, the commissioners OF cleo
ton shall in that event open the
regular and usual voting place for
these voters on the outside of the
territory of the proposed new county
and the election shall be otherwise
conducted there just the same as If
the said voting place were located on
the inside of the territory of the pro-
posed new county; provided, however
the managers of election shall be
careful not to allow any one to vote
at said voting place unless he re-
sides and lives within the territory of
the proposed new county, and be
otherwise qualified to vote at such
election according to law.
The managers of election when
the polls shall have been closed shall
proceed without interruption to count
and tabulate the same; they shall
make a written return of the number
of votes cast for and against the
formation of the new county, as well
as upon the name thereof, and the
location of the county seat therein;
they shall sign. seal and certify to
the managers the result of said cleo
ton, the same together with the bal
lot box, ballots and poll lists and
everything else appertaining to said
election shall be by them forthwith
turned over to the commissioners of
election as required by law; that the
commissioners of election for each OF
said old counties shall as provided
by law tabulate the vote and declare
the result of the election and make
due and proper return thereof as
required by law to the Clerk of
Court of their respective counties,
to the Governor of the State and to
the Secretary of State, in all of
which careful and detailed compli-
ance with the law is e~njoined and Or
dered.
IS. That the commissioners of
election of each of the old counties
do forthwith inform j.. E. Bradley,
Secretary and Treasurer of the pc
titioners seeking to form said new
county of the amount of money nee
essary to cover the costs of the eX-
penses of said election, and the
said J. E. Bradley, as Treasurer, shall
forthwith deposit with the Clerks of
Court of each of the respective old
counties said amount so designated
by said commissioners and any other
and further amount which may be
necessary under the law to meet and
defray the expenses of said election
as provided for by law.
IA. That the board of registration
for Greenwood County, for the pur-
poses of said special election and in
view Of the fact that the Legislature
has established two new polling places
in Greenwood County. within the
territory proposed to be cut off from
said county, wherein heretofore no
voting places have existed, to-wit:
at B. c. Talbert's store in Troy town.
ship and at T. B. Bells in Callison
township, do afford an opportunity
to all the qualified electors in said
area where heretofore as aforesaid
no polling places have existed, to
register or transfer to said two poll
ing places; provided no transfer or
registration shall be made by said
board within thirty days of the date
upon which said election is ordered
to be held; and provided further.
that the law governing transfers and
registration be carefully observed in
this matter. The said Commission
ers shall provide the usual books of
registration for said two new polling
places and furnish the anne to the
managers of election for said voting
places on the day of the election as
provided for by law.
IN TESTIMONY THEREOF I
have h%ereunto set my hand and caus-
ed the Great Seal of the State to
be affixed at Columbia, this Goth day
of October in the year Of u Lord
One Thousand Nine Hundred and
Fifteen, of the independence of the
United States Of America the one
hundred and fortieth.
Rich'd. l.. Manning.
Governor of the State OF South Caro-