The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1916-11-02
Notice of Election.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
COUNTY OF WILLIAMSBURG.


eral Election for State and county offic-
ers will be held at the voting precincts
prescribed by law in said county, or
Tuesday. November 7, 1916, the said
day being Tuesday following the first
first Monday 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 certi-
ficate and proof of the payment of all
taxes, including poll tax, assessed against
him and collectible during the previous
year. The production of a certificate or
of the receipt of the officer authorized
to collect such taxes shall be conclusive
proof of the payment thereof.
Section 237, Code of 1912, as amended
by Act No 6, special session of 1914.
Section 237. There shall be three sep
arate and distinct ballots, as follows:
One ballot for United States Senator.
Representative in Congress and Presi-
Dental electors; and one ballot for Gov
ernor, Lieutenant Governor. State offic-
ers. Circuit Solicitors, members of the
House of Representatives, State Senat-
or, county officers, and one ballot for all
Constitutional amendments and special
questions, each of three said boxes to be
appropriately labeled; which ballots
shall be of plain white paper and of such
width and length as to contain the name
of the officer or officers and question or
questions to be voted for or upon, clear
and even cut, without ornament, desig-
nation, mutilation, symbol or mark OF
any kind whatsoever except the name
or names of the person or persons voted
for and the Office To which such person
or persons are intended to be chosen,
and all special questions, which name or
names, Office or Offices question or ques-
tions shall be written or printed or part
ly written or partly printed thereon in
black ink; and such ballot shall be so
folded as to conceal the name or names,
question or questions thereon. and so
folded, shall be deposited in 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
ont one or the other of such words 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 managers
can administer the oath to the other
members and to the clerk; q 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 7 o'clock a. m. and closed at
4 o'clock p. m. except in the city OF
Charleston, where they shall be opened
at Z a. m. and closed at p. m.
The managers have the power to fill
a vacancy, and if none of the managers
attend, the citizens can appoint, from
among the qualified voters, the manag-
ers, who after being sworn, can 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 ad-
journment 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 deliver to the commits
sioners of election the poll list, the boxes
containing the ballots and written state
ments of the results of the election.
At the said election qualified electors
will vote upon the adoption or rejection
of amendments to the State Constitu-
ton, as provided in the following
JOINT RESOLUTIONS.
A Joint resolution to amend section Z,
article VIII of the Constitution relating
to municipal bonded Indebtedness. by
adding a proviso thereto relating to
School District No of Kershaw county
A Joint resolution proposing to amend
article X of the Constitution by adding
thereto section l5, to empower the town
of Mullins to assess abutting property
for permanent improvement.
A Joint resolution to amend article K
of the Constitution so as to authorize
the town of Clinton and the city of Eas-
lev to assess abutting property for per-
manent improvement.
A Joint resolution proposing an amend
ment to article XII, section 2 of the
Constitution, by striking out the whole
of said section 2, article XII, and substl-
tuting therefor a new section providing
for the appointment of board of re-
gents for institutions maintained Tor
the care of the insane. for the appoint,
ment of superintendent therefor, and
defining the powers.
A Joint resolution to amend section .,
article XI of the Constitution. relating
10 school districts, by adding special
proviso as to Spartanburg county:
A Joint resolution to amend section .,
article x of the Constitution, relating
to the limit of the bonded debt Of school
districts, by adding proviso thereto as
to the Charleston school district com
prised within the present limits OF the
city of Charleston.
4 Joint resolution to amend section Z
of art;clo VIII of the Constitution, re-