Year: 1868

AN ACT Providing General Election and the man


Of conducting the same


Be enacted By the Senate and House of Rep
resentatiues of the State of South Carolina, moto
met and sitting in General Assembly, and By the
authority of the same: -


I. The next general election in this State shall
be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday
of November next.


II. For the purpose of carrying on such election,
it shall be the duty of the Governor, and he is
hereby authorized and empowered, to appoint In
and for each county three Commissioners OF Elee-
tions, whose duty it shall be, and they are hereby
authorized and empowered, to appoint three Man
ayers of Elections for each election precinct or the
county for which they shall respectively be appoint
ed The said Commissioners of Elections and the
said Managers of Elections shall take and subscribe
before any officer authorized to administer oafhs'
the following oath of Office prescribed BY Section
30 of Article II, of the Constitution and the same
shall be Immediately fled in each instance in the
Office of the Clerk of the County in which said
Commissioners and Managers shall be appointed
and if there be no such Clerk duly qualified by
law, then in the Office of the Secretary of State


III. The said election shall be held in each coun-
ty at such and as many places as may be deslgna'
ted BY the Commissioners aforesaid, and shall be
conducted in each precinct under the superlnten-
dence of the said Managers, who shall conform In
such elections to the existing laws and regulations
regarding elections, except as hereinafter other
wise provided.


W. It shall be the duty ofsuch Managers, com
mencing twenty days prior to such election, and
giving ten days public notice of the time and place
of such revision, to revise, for period OF three
days the registration lists upon which the election
commencing the second day of June, one thousand
eight hundred and sxtyeight, and ending the third
day of June of the same year, was conducted, by
the addition to such lists Of the names of all persons
entitled to vote under the Constitution who have
not already been registered, and by striking from
such lists the names of such persons as shall not
bv law be entitled to vote For the purposes OF
such revision, such Managers shall meet at the
places designated by the Commissioners, and pro-
vided in the next preceding Section.


V. The Managers are hereby authorized to ap
point clerk to assist them in whatever duties may
be REQUIRED of them, who shall take the oath OF
Office hereinbefore mentioned before the Chairman
of the Board of Managers.


vi. The Commissioners aforesaid and the Man
ayers aforesaid, at their first meetings, respective
w. shall proceed to organize themselves as Board
by appointinc one of their number Chairman OF
the Board and such Chairman, in each instance,
shall be empowered to administer the necessary
oaths. .. 80. ...-.,--.s-..- -


VII The polls shall be opened at such voting
places as shall be designated, at six o'clock IN the
forenoon and closed at six clock in the afternoon
of the day of election, and shall be kept open du-
ring these hours without intermission or adjourn
ment


VIII. REPRESENTATIVES in the House of Repre-
sentatives of the Congress of the United States
shall be chosen at such election in the several Con-
gressiona Districts by the qualified electors therein


TX. The State Constable and other peace off,
GERS of each county are hereby required to be pres
ent during the whole time that the polls are kept
open, and until the election is completed and they
shall prevent all interference with the Managers,
and see that there is no interruption OF good or
der. IF there should be more than one polling
nlace in any county, the State Constable OF such
county is hereby empowered and directed to make
such assignment of his deputies, and other peace
officers to such other polling places as may, IN MS
Judgment best subserve the purposes of quiet and
order.


x All bar-rooms, saloons, and other places tor
the sale of liquors, by retail, shall be closed durng
the progress of such election, and until SIX cocE
in the morning of the day thereafter and during
the time aforesaid the sale of all intoxicating IL
ouors are prohibited. Any person duly convicted
before competent Court of violation OF TINS
Section, shall be punished by fine not exceeding
fifty dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding sis
months, or by both such fine and imprisonment
in the discretion of the Court


XII. If any company or corporation who have
obtained, or may hereafter obtain, charter from
the Legislature of this State, for the benefit Of
such company or corporation, shall discharge, OF
threaten to discharge, from employment IN sucn
business, any operative or employee, before or at.
ter any election for or on account Of his political
opinion, or for voting attempting to vote as he
or thew may desire, said charter shall be deemed
and taken to be forfeited and shall have nc legal OF
binding force at any time thereafter, but shall be
utterly null and void and the person discharged
NAV have an action Of trespass to recover damages
for his losses therein sustained, against said com
pany or corporation; and should any agent Of
clerk, in the employment Of such company or cor
poration discharge, or threaten to discharge, an!
employee on account of his political opinion, or to-
voting or attempting to vote as heor they may de
sire if said agent or clerk is not Immediately dis
missed, when said company or corporation becomes
possessed of such information, said company o.
corporation shall be held responsible for the same
and be liable to the penalties hereinbetore pre-
scribed.


XII. The voting shall be by ballot, which shal
contain written or printed, or partly written anc
partly printed, the names of the persons voted for
and the Offices to which such persons are intended
to be chosen, and shall be so folded as to concea
the contents and such ballot shall be deposited
box to be constructed, kept and disposed OF al
hereinafter provided.


XIII. There shall be one generalticket on which
shall be the names of the persons voted for Al
Representatives in Congress, and State, Clrcul
and County Officers and on another general ticke
the names of persons votedfor as Electors Of Pres
ident and Vice President, as hereinafter provided


XIV. The Commissioners of Election shall pro
vide two boxes for each election precinct. Al
opening shall be made in the lid of each box, no
larger than shall be sufficient for single closed bal
lot to be inserted therein at one time, through which


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