The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1922-11-02
NOTICE OF ELECTION.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
County of Williamsburg.
Notice is hereby given that the Cen
eral Election for State and County
Officers will be held at the voting
precincts prescribed by law in said
county, on Tuesday, November Z, 1922.
said day being Tuesday following the
first Monday in November. as pre-
scribed by the State Constitution.
The qualifications for suffrage:
Managers of election require of
every elector offering to vote at any
election, before allowing him to vote,
the production of his registration GER
tifcate and proof of the payment of
all taxes, including poll tax, assessed
against him and collectable during
the previous year. The production
of a certificate or of the receipt of the
Offices authorized to collect such tax
es, shall be conclusive proof of the
payment thereof.
Section 237, Code of 1912, as amend
ed by Act No. 6, special session Of
1914.
Section 237. There shall be three
seperate and distinct ballots. as fol-
lows: One ballot for Representatives
in Congress; and one ballot for Gov
ernor, Lieutenant Governor, State
officers, Circuit Solicitors, members
Of the House Of Representatives,
State Senator, county officers, and
one ballot for all Constitutional
amendments and special questions,
each of three said boxes to be ap-
propriately 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 whatso-
ever, except the name or names of
the person or persons voted for and
the office to which such person on
persons are intended to be chosen,
and all special questions which name
or names, office or Offices, question or
qoestions shall be written or printed
or partly written or partly printed
thereon in black ink; and such bal
lot shall be so folded as to conceal
the name or names, question or ques-
tions thereon, and so folded, shall be
deposited in q box to be constructed,
kept and disposed Of as herein pro-
vided by law. and no ballot of any
other description found in either of
said boxes shall be counted.
On all special questions the bal
lot shall state the question, or ques-
tions, and shall thereafter have the
words eyes" and mo" inserted so
that the voter may indicate his 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; Notary Public must admin
lister the oath to the Chairman. The
Managers elect their Chairman and
Clerk.
Polls at each voting place must be
opened at o'clock a. m, and closed
at 4 p. m, except in the City of
Charleston, where they shall be open
ed at Z a. m, and closed at 6 p. m.
The Managers have the power to
fill 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 a 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 Commits
sioners of Election the poll list, the
boxes containing the ballots and writ
ten statements of the results of the
election.
At the said election qualified elec-
tors will vote upon the adoption or
rejection of amendments to the State
Constitution, as provided in the fol-
lowing Joint Resolutions:
A Joint Resolution to Amend Ar
ticle X of the Constitution so as to
Authorize the Town of Greer to AS
sess Abutting Property for perma-
nent improvements.
A Joint Resolution to Amend Sec
ton of Article XVII of the Con-
stitution Empowering the General As
sembly to Regulate the Printing for
the State.
A Joint Resolution to Amend Sec
ton 5, Article x, of the Constitution
Relating to the Limit of the Bonded
Debt of School District, by Adding
Proviso Thereto as to the Due ,Wes
School District No. 38, Abbeville
County.
A Joint Resolution to Amend Sec
tion 7, of Article VIII and Section 5,
of Article X of the Constitution so
as to Exempt the City of Beaufort
from the Provision Thereof.
A Joint Resolution to Amend Para
graph 5, Article X of the Constitu-
ton Relating to Bonded Indebtedness
of Counties, Townships, School Dis
tricts, ETC., by Adding Proviso as
to the County of Beaufort.
A Joint Resolution to Propose an