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NOTICE OF ELECTION.

NOTICE OF ELECTION.
State of South Carolina,
County of Abbeville.
Notice is hereby given that the
General Election for State and Coun-
ty Officers will be held at the voting
precincts prescribed by law in said
county, on Tuesday, November T.
1916, said day being Tuesday follow
ing the first Monday 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 registra-
ton certificate and proof Of the pay
ment of all taxes, including poll tax,
assessed against him and collectible
during the previous year. The pro-
duction of certificate or of the re-
ceipt of the officer authorized to col
lect 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
separate and distinct ballots, as fol-
lows: One ballot for United States
Senator, Representatives in Congress
and Presidential electors; and one
ballot for Governor, Lieutenant Gov
ernor, State officers, Circuit Solici-
tors, members Of the House Of Rep
resentatives, State Senator, county
officers, and one ballot for all Consti-
tutional amendments and special
questions, each Of three said 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 questions to
be voted for or upon, clear and even
cut, without ornament, designation,
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 per-
son or persons are intended to be
chosen, and all special questions
which name or names, Office or offices,
question or questions shall be writ
ten or printed or partly written or
partly printed thereon in black ink;
and such ballot shall be so folded as
to conceal the name or names, ques-
ton or questions thereon, and so fold
ed, shall be deposited in a box to be
constructed, kept and disposed OF as
herein provided by law, and no bal
lot 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
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;
a Notary Public must administer the
oath to the Chairman. The Mana
gers 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 7 a. M, and closed at 6
p. m.
The Managers have the power to
fill a vacancy, and if none of the
Managers attend, the citizens can ap-
point from among the qualified vot-
ers, the Managers, who, after being
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 con-
tinue without adjournment until the
same is completed, and make state
ment of the result for each office and
sign the same. Within three days