Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-11-01
NOTICE OF ELECTION.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
COUNTY OF EDGEFIELD.

GERS will be held at the voting precincts
prescribed by law in said county, on
Tuesday, November7. 1916, said day
being Tuesday following the first Mon
day 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 registration
certificate and proof of payment of
all taxes, including poll tax, assessed
against him and collectible during the
previous year. The production of
certificate or of the receipt OF the OIL
Ger authorized to collect such taxes,
shall be conclusive proofof the payment
thereof.
Section 237, Code of 1912, as amend.
ed by Act No. 5, special session OF
1914.
Section 1S7. There shall be three
separate and distinct ballots, as fol-
lows: One ballot for United States
Senator, Representatives in Congress
and Presidential electors; and one bal
lot for Governor, Lieutenant Governor,
State officers, Circuit Solicitors, mem
bers of the House of Representatives,
State Senator, county officers, and one
ballot for all Constitutional amend.
ments and special questions, each OF
said three boxes to be appropriately
labelled; which ballots shall be of PLAIN
white paper and of such width and
length as to contain the names OF the
officer or officers and question or ques--
tions to be voted for or upon, clear and
even cut, without ornament, deslgna..
tion, mutilation, symbol or mark OF
any kind whatsoever, except the name
or names of the persons voted for and
the office to which such person or per-
sons are intended to be chosen, and all
special questions which name or names,
Office or Offices, question or questions
shall be written or printed or partly
written or partly printed thereon IN
black ink; ano such ballot shall be so
folded as to conceal the name or names,
question or questions thereon, and so
folded, shall be deposited in a box to
be constructed, kept and disposed of as
herein provided by law, and no ballot
of any other description found IN either
of said boxes shall be counted.
On all special questions the ballot
shall state the question, or questions,
and shall thereafter have the words
Eyes" and mo" inserted so that the
voter may indicate his vote by striking
out one or the other of such wo-ds on
said ballot, the word not so stricken
out to be counted.
Before the hour fixed for opening the
polls, Managers and Clerks must take
and subscribe the Constitutional oath.
The Chairman of the Board of Manag-
ers can administer the oath to the 9TH
er members and to the Clerk; Nota-
ry 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. 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
ate pm.
The Managers have the power to
fill vacancy, and if none of the Man
ayers attend, the citizens can appoint
from among the qualified voters. the
Managers, who, after being sworn, can
conduct the election.
At the close of the election, the
Managers and Clerks 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 designated by the Board, must de-
liver 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 qualified electors
will vote upon the adoption or rejectiQY
of amendments to the State ConstitG-
tion, as provided in the following Joint
Resolutions: '
AJOINT RESOLUTION to amend
Section Z, Article VIII of the Consth
tuition, relating to Municipal Bonded
indebtedness, by adding proviSs>
thereto, relating to School District No.,
/, of Kershaw County. y
A JOINT RESOLUTION Proposing
to amend Article X of the Constitution
by adding thereto Section 10, to en-
power the Town of Mullins to assess
abutting property for permanent ip1
provement.
A JOINT RESOLUTION to amend
Article X of the Constitution so as
to authorize the Town of Clinton AND
the City of Easley to assess abutting
property for permanent improvements,
A JOINT RESOLUTION proposing
an amendmant to Article XII, Section,
2 of the Constitution, by striking out
the whole of said Section 2. Article
XII, and substituting therefor new
section providing for the appointment
of board of regents for institutions
maintained for the care of tire insanei
for the appointment of superintenA
dent therefor, and defining the powers.
A JOINT RESOLUTION to amend
Section 5, Article XI Of the Constitu
tion, relating to School Districts by
adding special proviso as to Spartan
burg County.
A JOINT RESOLUTION to amend
Section 5, Article X of the Constitu-
tion, relating to the limit OF bonded
debt of School District,l by adding a
proviso thereto as to the Charleston
School District comprised within the
r,resent limits of the CitV of Charles