The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1916-10-20
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tstate 4 Carolina,
Notice is hereby given that the Cen
Ieral Election for State and County
Officers will be held at the voting pre-
lcincts prescribed by law in said coun-
ty, on Tuesday, November q, 1915,
said day being Tuesday following the
first Monday in November, as pre-
scribed by the State Constitution.
I The qualification for suffrage:
Managers of election shall require
of every elector offering to vote at
any election, before allowing him to
tion certificate and proof Of the pay
ment of all taxes, including poll tax,
assessed against him and collectible
during the previous year. The produc-
tion 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.
j Section 237. 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
amendments and special questions,
each of three said boxes to be appro-
priately 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 questions to be voted for
or upon, clear and even cut, without
ornament, designation, mutilation,
lsymbol or mark of any kind whatso-
ever, except the name or names of
: the person or 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
or partly 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 de-
4 posted in a box to be constructed,
kept and disposed of as herein pro-
. vided 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 "No" inserted so that the
voter may indicate his vote by strik-
, ing out 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
2 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
Notary Public must administer the
oath to the Chairman. The Mana
gers elect their Chairman and Clerk.
Polls at each voting place must be
. oDened at 2 o'clock a. m. and closed
: ats4 O'Clock p. M. except in the City
of 4laston- Uhara. they shall lbs
The Managers have the power to
NIL vacancy, and if none of the Man.
= ayers attend, the citizens can appoint
from among, the qualified voters, the
Managers. who, after being sworn car
conduct the election.
AT the close of the election. tho
Managers and Clerk must proceed
publicly to open the ballot boxes and
count the ballots therein, and continue
wlthout adjournment until the same
is completed, and make a statement
OF the result for each Office and SIGN
the same. Within three days there
after, the Chairman of the Board or
some one designated bv the Board. .
must deliver to the Commissioners of
Election the poll list, the boxes con-
tanning the ballots and written state
ments OF the results of the election.
AT the said election qualified cleo
tors Will vote upon the adoption or
rejection OF amendments to the State
constitution, as provided in the fol-
A JOINT RESOLUTION to Amend
Section a, Article VIII of the Con
| stitution, Relating to Municinal
Bonded Indebtedness. by ADDING
Proviso Thereto, Relating to School
District No. 1, of Kershaw County
A JOINT RESOLUTION PROPOSING
to Amend Article X of the Consti,
tuition by Adding Thereto Section
10, to Empower the Town of Null
Inns to Assess Abuttinp Propertv
for Permanent Improvement.
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 Amendment to Article XII Seq
tion 2 of the Constitution. bv Strik-
ing Out the Whole of Said Section
2. Article XII, and Substitutinu
Therefor q New Section Provid;ne
for the Appointment of a Board o.
Regents for Institutions Maintained
for the Care of the Insane, for the
Appointment. of Superintendent
Therefor, and Defining the Powers.