Lexington dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1917-1919, 1918-10-30
Notice Of Election,
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
County Of Lexington.

County Of Lexington.
Notice is hereby given that the Gen
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 5, 1913,
said day being Tuesday following the
first Monday in November, as pre-
scrbed 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 collectble
during the previous year. The pro-
duction Of a 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 amen
ded 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 Repre-
sentative, State Senator, county Of
ficers, ard one ballot for all Constl-
tutional amendments and special
Questions, each of three said boxes to
he appropriately labelled; which bal
lots shall be of plain white paper and
cf 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, muulatlon'
symbol or mark of any kind Whatso-
ever, except the name or names OF
the person or persons voted Tor ana
the Office to which such person or
nersons arc 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 parity
printed IN6ISOil III DieiNh lii1N' '->@
SUCH ballot shall be so folded as 10
conceal the name or names, question
or questions thereon, and so tolded'
shall be deposited in . boy to be con
s:tvuc{eI. kept and disposed OF as
herein provided ny law, and no BAL
lot Of any other description found IN
either of said boxes shall be counted.
On ell special questions the ballot
shall state the question, or questions,
anG shall thereafter have the words
Yes" and no. inserted so that the
voter may indicate his vote by strlk-
ing out one or the other OF such
words on said ballot. the word not so
str:;Ien out to be counted.
Before the hour fixed for opening
the polls, Managers and Clerks must
take and subscribe the Consttuuonal
oath. The Chairman of the Board OF
Managers can administer the oath
TO the other members and the CLERK a
Notary Public must administer the
oath TO the Chairman. The Mama
gers elect their Chairman and Clerk.
Polls at each voting place must be
oDered at 7 o'clock a. IN. ana closed
at / o'clock p. m., except IN the City
of Charleston, where they snail De
ouened at 7 a. m. and closed at p
n.
The Managers nave the power TO
fill Il vacancy, and ii none OF the
Manages attend, the citizens can ap-
point from among the qualified voters
1an Managers, who after beng aWofn