The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1916-10-27
NOTICE OF ELECTION
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
COUNTY OF NEWBERRY.

COUN1 IL OE NEW OGRP1.
Notice is hereby given that the Cen
eral Election for State and County
Officers will be held at the voting pre-
cincts prescribed by law in said coun-
ty, on Tuesday, November 7, 1916,
said day being Tuesday following the
first Monday in November, as pre-
scribed 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 produc-
ton of a certificate or of the receipt
of the officer authorized to collect
such taxes, shall be conclusive proof
of the payment thereof.
Section 2s7, Code of 1912, as amend
ed by Act No. 6, special session o.
1914.
Section 2s7. There shall be three
separate and distinct ballots, as fol-
lows: One ballot for United States
Senator, Representatives in Congress
and Presidential elections; and one
ballot for Governor, Lieutenant Gov
ernor, State officers, Circuit Solici-
tors, members of the House of Repre-
sentatives, State Senator, county Off
GERS, 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 20
contain the names of the officer or
>fi2ers md question or questions to
be- voted for or upon, clear and even
cut, without ornament, designation
nutilation, symbol or mark OF any
kind whatsoever except the name o.
LANES of the person or persons voteG
or aLl 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 so be 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 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,
"Yes" 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 strick-
en- 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 Managers
elect their Chairman and Clerk.
Polls at each voting place must be
opened at Z o'clock a. N. and closed
at o'clock p. M, except in the City
of Charleston, where they shall be
opened at I a. NJ and closed at 6
p. N.
The managers have the power to
fill a 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 Man.
ayers and Clerk must proceed pub
licly to open the ballot boxes anc
count the ballots therein, and contin'
uc without adjournment until tht
same is completed, and make a state.
ment of the result for each office and