The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1920-10-28
NOTICE OF ELECTION
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
~ Countv of Dillon,


Officers will be held at the voting pre-
cincts prescribed by law In said coun-
ty on Tuesday, November 2, 1927,
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
ally election, before allowing him or
her to vote, the production OF his or
her registration certificate and PROOF
of the payment Of all taxes, including
poll tax, assessed against him or her
and collectible during the previous
year. The production OF a certificate
or of the receipt Of the officer au-
,thorized to collect such taxes shall be
conclusive proof Of the payment
thereof.
Section 237, Code of 1912. as
amended by Act No. s, special session
Z of 1914.
y Section 237. There shall be three
separate and distinct ballots, as fol-
lows: One ballot for United States
Senator, Representative in Congress
and Presidential electors; and one
ballot for Governor, Lieutenant Gov
ernory State officers, Circuit Solici-
tors, member of the House OF Rep
resentatives, State Senator, county Of
fcers; 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 theperson or persons voted
FOR and the office to which such per-
son or persons are intended to be
chosen, and all special questions
shall be written 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, question or questions there
on, and, sd folded, shall be depolsited
In q box to be constructed, kept and
disposed of as herein provided by
law, and no ballot of any other de-
scription 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 or her vote
by striking 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;
q 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 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 vacancy, and II none Of the
Managers attend, the citizens can ap-
point from among the qualified voters
the Managers, who, after being sworn,
can conduct the election.
.tt At the close of the election the
Managers an d 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
thereafter the Chairman Of the Board,
or some one designated by the Board,
must deliver to the Commissioners OF
Election the poll list, the boxes con-
tanning the ballots and wrltteni state
ments of the results of the election.
At the said election qualified cleo
tors win vote upon the adoption or
rejeeti of amendments to the State
Constitution, as provided in the fol-
lowing joint resolutions:
A joint resolution to amend Section
"a of Article III of the Constitution,
relating to the manner Of fixing the
amount of compensation to be paid
county officers, by striking out sub
section Y of the original Constitution,
appearing in Code of Laws, Volume
IL, page 615, as subsection VIII.
A joint resolution to. amend Sec
ton I, Article VIII Of the Constitu-
.tloh, relating to municipal bonded
Indebtedness, by adding a proviso
thereto as to the town of Marion.
A joint resolution to amend Sec
ton z, Article VIII of the Constitu-
ton, relating to municipal bonded
indebtedness, by adding provico
thereto as to the town Of Saluda, in
Saluda county, and Kingstree, Will
liamsburg county.
A joint resolution to amend Sec
tion z, Article VIII of the Constitu-
ton, relating to the limit of the
bonded debt of cities, by adding there
to as to the City Of Charleston.
A joint resolution to amend Sec
ton z of Article VIII of the Constitu-
Tim relating to municiDal bonded