The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1920-10-21
NOTICE OF ELECTION
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
County Of Dillon,

County Of Dillon,
Notice is hereby gwen that the
General Election for State and County
Y Officers will be held at the voting pre-
cincts prescribed by law in said coun-
" on Tuesday, November g., 1917,
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 OF
4 her, to vote, the production OF MS OF
S 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 certificate
or of the receipt of the officer au-
thorized to collect such taxes shall be
conclusive proof Of the payment
thereof. -.
Section 2s7, Code of 1912. as
amended by Act No. 6, special session
of 1914.
St Section 237. There shall be three
separate and distinct ballots, as fol-
u lows: one ballot for United States
Senator, Representative in Congress
and Presidential electors; and one
ballot for Governor, Lieutenant Gov
ernor, State officers, Circuit Solici-
4 tors, member of the House Of Rep
resentatives, State Senator, county Of
.ficers; and one ballot for all Consti-
q tutional amendments and special
Y questions, each OF three said boxes
Sto 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
a-scut, 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
5 black ink; and such ballot shall be
SO folded as to conceal the name or
names, question or questions there
on, and, 80 folded, shal be depolsited
In a 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. .f,-
On all special questions the ballot
shall state the question. or questions,
( and shall thereafter have the words
eyes" and mo" inserted so that the
voter may indicate his or her vote
IA by striking out one or the other OF
iwsuch words on said ballot, the word
3 shot so stricken out to be counted.
IRM Before the hour fixed for opening
the polls, Managers and Clerks must
: take and subscribe the Constitutional
OIdaaH The Chairman of the Board OF
nsMaMagers can administer the oath to
olt1,A other members and to the Clerk;
"a O. Metary Public must administer the
n rsohthI to the Chairman. The Mana
+ Rers elect their Chairman and Clerk.
Polls at each voting place must be
T 3pHh4G 9tI7 O'Clock a. m. and closed
p. M, except in the city
.Iiof sGhaNseton, where they shall be
opened at Z a. m. and closed at 6 p. M.
~ Fhe Managers have the power to
HAlIa TasdESy, and If none of the
laManagsrsI attend, the citizens can ap-
ss11oinf from among the qualified voters
rishe Managers, swho, after being sworn.
~ cans rbIducti thesslection.
saT6l6ts this fldses ofo the election the
Managers an ID Clerk must proceed
-pobifciy to- .open 1her ballot boxes and
,e5unx theiibaHois therein, and con-
y tinuewwithosrt adjournment until the
bfsame Iiseohametedi and make a state
b tlAnt ,oe ythel9rssultefor each office
IN and dgD the same Within three days
,Ithbreaftar he sGhaiSmhD Of the Board,
eFsome enc designated 1.-The Board,
.brfust sdelIyerl 10 tbS Comm hBsioners OF
the rpoii iolibt sthe boxes con-
s1 1taiainx thesballots and wutten state
e6entsSof The 5tesults, of 1.-THE election.
-L---At-th. said election qualified cleo