The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1922-11-02
NOTICE OF ELECTION

County of Chesterfield.
Notice is hereby given that the
General Election for State and Coun-
ty Officers will be held at the voting |
precincts prescribed by law in said
county, on Tuesday, November ?,
1922, said day being Tuesday follow
ig the first Monday. in November, as
rescribed by the State Constitution. |
The qualifications for suffrage:
Managers of election require of ev-
cry elector offering to vote at any
election, before allowing him to vote,
the production of his registration GER
tificate and proof of the payment Of
all taxes, including poll tax, assessed
against him and collectible during the
previous year. The production of a
certificate or of the receipt of the
officer authorized to collect such tax
es, shall be conclusive proof of the
payment thereof.
Section 237, Code 1912, as amend
ed by Act No. 6, special session OF
1914.
Section 237. There shall be three
separate and distinct ballots, as fol.
lows: One ballot for Representative
in Congress; and one ballot for Gov
ernor, Lieutenant Governor, State
officer, 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 appro-
priately 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 or
persons are intended to be chosen, land
all special questions which name or
names, office or Offices, question or
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
thereon, and SO folded, shall be de-
posted in 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 ballot
shall state the question, or questions,
and shall thereafter have the words
Eyes" 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 stricken 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 admister the oath
to the other members and to the
jClerk; 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 z o'clock am. and close
at a o'clock pm. except in the City
of Charleston, where they shall be
opened at am. and closed at 6 pm.
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 Com
missioners of Election the poll list,
the boxes containing the ballots and
written statements of the results of
the election.
At the said election qualified cleo
tors will vote upon the adoption oil
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 5 of Article XVII Of the Consti-