The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-10-27
NOTICE OF ELECTION
State of South Carolina,
County Of No1uharr,r

State OF SOuth CafOllnd,
County of Newberry.
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 Z,
1922, said day being Tuesday follow
ing the first Morday in November, as
prescribed by the State Constitution.
The qualification for suffrage:
Managers of election require of ev-
cry elector offering 70 vote at any
election. before allowing him to vote,
the production of his registration GER
tfcate 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 Of
ficer authorized to collect such, taxes,
shall be conclusive proof of the pay
ment thereof.
Section 237. Code of 1912, as
amended by Act No. 6, special ses-
sion of 1914.
Section 237. There shall be three
separate 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 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 OF 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,
and all special questions. which name
or names, Office or Offices, question or
questions shall be written or printed
or partly written and partly printed
thereon in black ink; and such ballot
shall be folded as. to conceal the name
or names, question or questions
thereon, and so folded, shall be de-
posted in a box to be constructed,
kept and disposed of as herein pro-
vided by law, and no ballot Of any
description found in either of these
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 50
stricken out to be counted.
Before the hour nxed 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 !;
a Notary Public must administer the
oath to the Chairman. The Managers
elect their Chairman and Clerk.
Polls at each voting place must be
opened at z o'clock a. m. and closed
at 4 o'clock pl m. except in the City
of Charleston, where they shall be
be opened at a. m. and closed at 6
p. m.
The Managers have the power to
fill a vacancy, and if 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.
At the close of the election the
Managers and Clerks must proceed
publicly 70 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 Commis
sioners of Election the pcil list, the
boxes containing the ballots and
the election.
At the said election qualified cleo
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
Article x of the Constitution so as to
Authorize the Town Of Greer to AS
sess Abutting Property for Perman-
ent Improvements.
A joint Resolution to Amend
Section Of Article XVII Of the Con-
stitution Empowering the General
Assembly to Regulate the Printing
for the State.
\ joint Resolution to Amend
Section 5, Article X, Of the Con@itu-
ton Relating to the Limit of the
Bonded debt Of school districts, by
Adding a Proviso Thereto as to the
Due West School District No. SO,
Abbeville County.
A joint Resolution to Amend
Section 7. of Article VIII and Sec
ton 5, of Article x of the Constitu-
ton, so as to Exempt the City Of
Beaufort From the Provisions There
of.
A joint Resolution to Amend
Paragraph 5, Article K of the Con
Stitnf;on Relating to Bonded 1ndebt-