To be published. 1b., § 52.

Penalty on

others for de

livery of certifi

cates.

Ib., § 53.

declared to be elected; and for that purpose he may employ such and so many messengers as he shall deem necessary.

SEC. 9. The determination and certificate of the Board of State Canvassers in relation to the choice of Electors shall be published in the same manner as provided in relation to the certificates of the election of other officers.

SEC. 10. If any of the messengers shall be guilty of destroying messengers and the certificates entrusted to their care, or willfully doing any act that festing due de- shall defeat the due delivery of them, as directed by this Chapter, he shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary, at hard labor, for a term not less than two, nor exceeding four years; and if any person shall be found guilty of taking away from any of the said messengers, either by force or in any other manner, any such certificates entrusted to his care, or of willfully doing any act that shall defeat the due delivery thereof, as directed by this Chapter, he shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary, at hard labor, for not less than two, nor exceeding four years.

Punishment

corrupt conduct

SEC. 11. If any officer or messenger, on whom any duty is enfor neglect or joined in this Chapter, shall be guilty of any willful neglect of such on part of officers duty, or of any corrupt conduct in the execution of the same, and be thereof convicted, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding one year.

or messengers.

Ib., 54.

Compensation

of messengers.

Ib., 55.

Meeting of the

Vacancies to

be filled.

SEC. 12. The messengers employed or appointed under this Chapter shall receive for their compensation twelve cents per mile for traveling, to be audited by the Comptroller General upon the certificate of the Secretary of State.

Of the Formation and Proccedings of the College of Electors.

SEC. 13. The Electors of President and Vice President shall conElectoral College vene at the Capital, in some convenient place, on the day preceding the first Wednesday in December after their election; and those of them who shall be so assembled, at four o'clock in the afternoon of 1568, XIV, 111, that day, shall, immediately after that hour, proceed to fill, by ballot and by plurality of votes, all vacancies in the Electoral College, occasioned by the death, refusal to serve, or neglect to attend at that hour, of any Elector, or occasioned by an equal number of votes having been given for two or more candidates.

21.

To choose President and Secretary.

Ib., 2.

Of duties of Se

SEC. 14. The Electoral College being thus completed, they shall then choose a President and Secretary from their own body.

SEC. 15. The Secretary of State shall prepare three lists of the cretary of State. names of the Electors, procure to the same the signature of the Governor, affix thereto the seal of the State, and deliver them, thus

Ib., 23.

signed and sealed, to the President of the College of Electors on or before the said first Wednesday in December.

SEC. 16. On the said first Wednesday in December, the Electors shall meet at some convenient place at the Capital, and then and there vote by ballot for President and Vice President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same State with themselves. They shall name in their ballots the persons voted for as President, and, in distinct ballots, the persons voted for as Vice President.

Vote by ballot.

Ib., 24.

Certified lists of

candidates voted

for.

SEC. 17. They shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice President, and of the number of votes for each, which list they shall sign and certify; Ib., § 5. and, after annexing thereto one of the lists received from the Secretary of State, they shall seal up the same, certifying thereon that lists of the votes of this State for President and Vice President are contained therein.

SEC. 18. The Electors shall then, by writing, under their hands, or under the hands of a majority of them, appoint a person to take charge of the list so sealed up, and to deliver the same to the President of the Senate at the seat of Government of the United States before the first Wednesday in January then next ensuing.

SEC. 19. In case there shall be no President of the Senate at the seat of Government on the arrival of the person entrusted with the lists of the votes of the Electors, then such person is required to deliver the lists of the votes in his custody into the office of the Secretary of State of the United States.

SEC. 20. The Electors are also required to forward forthwith, by the postoffice, to the President of the Senate of the United States, at the seat of Government, and to deliver forthwith to the Judge of the United States for the District of South Carolina, similar lists, signed, annexed, sealed up and certified in the manner aforesaid.

SEC. 21. Every Elector of this State for the election of a President and Vice President of the United States, who shall attend at any election of those officers, and give his vote at the time and place appointed by law, shall be entitled to receive for his attendance at such election, and for traveling to and from his place of residence, by the most usual route, the same sum as shall, at the time, be allowed by law to members of the General Assembly for their attendance and travel, to be paid in like manner.

To appoint

messenger

deliver lists.

Ib., 6.

to

Where to be delivered.

Ib., 27.

Duplicata copies

to be forwarded

by mail.

Ib., 28.

Compensation.
Ib.. 29.

General elec.

officers on third

October of every second year.

1870, XIV, 338,

SECTION 1. There shall be a general election for the election of tion for County the following County officers, to wit: Judge of Probate, County Wednesday in Commissioners and School Commissioner, held in each County on the third Wednesday of October, Anno Domini one thousand eight 1: Constitution, hundred and seventy, and on the same day in every second year 4,25,219, 20, thereafter; and for the election of Sheriff and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas on the third Wednesday of October, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, and on the same day in every fourth year thereafter.

Governor to fill vacancy in

where the unex

not exceed ore

it does to call an

§1. See Chaps.

SEC. 2. That, in the event that a vacancy shall, at any time, occur any county office in the office of County Commissioners, in any County of this State, pired term does whether from death, resignation, disqualification, or other cause, the year; and when Governor shall have full power to appoint some suitable person, election. who, upon duly qualifying, according to law, shall be entitled to 1870, XIV, 374, enter upon and hold the office to which he has been appointed for XXI.XXII, the unexpired term of the former incumbent, and shall be subject to all of the duties and liabilities incident to said officer, during the term of his service in said office: Provided, That no such unexpired term for which an appointment is made shall, in any case, exceed one year. If the vacancy exceeds one year, the Governor shall, by proclamation, call an election in the County, to be conducted according to law, to fill said vacancy.

24; XXXVIII,

€2.

held for officers cities and

towns.

1868, XIV, 108,

SECTION 1. That His Excellency the Governor shall order an Election to be election to be held on the second Tuesday of November, in the year of 1868, in all incorporated cities and towns of this State, for the election of all officers provided for by the charters of the said cities § 1. and towns. SEC. 2. The Managers of Election authorized and required to con- How conducted. duct the election herein provided for in Section one (1) of this Chapter, are authorized to conduct all subsequent elections that may be ordered to be held in such cities and towns, until otherwise provided for by law.

Ib.. 2 2. See 1868, XIV, 138.

Registration of

voters.

Oath to be taken by voters.

SEC. 3. In order to secure the free expression of all persons qualified to vote, as hereinafter provided, the Managers of Election shall open their respective polling places for three (3) days next preceding the day fixed for the election herein provided for, commencing at 7 o'clock A. M., and closing at 5 o'clock P. M., each day, and shall, during these days, record the names of all qualified electors, and their place of residence, in a book to be furnished them by the Managers. All persons who present themselves for such registration shall, before their names are recorded, take the following oath: “I, do solemnly swear (or affirm) b., § 3. that I am a citizen of the United States; that I have been an inhabitant of this State for one year next preceding this day, and for the last sixty days a resident of this city, (town or village, as the case may be); that I reside in this ward, (or polling precinct.) SEC. 4. The Managers shall, immediately after the election, turn Disposition over the registration books to the Mayor or Intendant, who shall books. Expenditures, cause the same to be put up in a safe and secure place. The Mana- how provided gers shall receive a sum of money to cover expenditures for books, Ib. stationery, &c., together with their pay, as herein allowed, from the Treasury of such city, town or village wherein such election is held. SEC. 5. The qualifications of an elector shall be those required by the Constitution, together with a residence of sixty days next preceding the election, within the corporate limits of the city or 2, Art. 8, Con. town, and that he has been duly registered in the ward or precinct in which he offers to vote.

of registration

for.

Qualifications of voters. Ib., 4 See 2

Managers to

report same

to

Mayor or Inten-
Court, in case of

dant, or Clerk of

their absence

SEC. 6. The Managers of Election shall, immediately after the closing of the polls, proceed to count the votes cast for each candi- count votes and date, or person voted for, and make a statement or report thereof, in writing, sign, seal and transmit the same, in a sealed envelope, by one of their number, to the Mayor or Intendant of the city or town wherein the election has been held. And, if there be no acting Mayor or Intendant in any such city or town, or in the absence of such Mayor or Intendant, the same shall be transmitted to the Clerk of Court for the County in which said city or town may be.

Ib., §.

Announcement

of Vote

d claration

and

SEC. 7. The Mayor or Intendant, or Clerk of Court, shall open of the report of said Managers, aggregate the same, if there be several, and shall announce and publish the whole number of votes cast, and 1 S. C. Rep., 30. the whole number cast for each candidate, when the several candi

ejection.

Ib.

Opening and

dates so found to have received the largest number of votes for the offices for which they were voted for shall be declared duly elected. SEC. 8. In all elections for city or town officers the polls shall be clos ng polls, &c. opened at 7 o'clock A. M., and kept open, during one day, at all the polling precincts, and in various wards, and shall close at 5 P. M. Each ward in the city of Charleston shall constitute at least one polling precinct.

Ib., & 6.

Officers elected

to be inducted

SEC. 9. The officers clected under the provisions of this Chapter into office Mon- shall, on taking the oath prescribed in the Constitution, be inducted day following into office on the Monday succeeding their election, and shall immediately enter upon the discharge of their official duties.

election.

Ib, 27.

Term of office.

tered, by whom. Ib., 8.

SEC. 10. Said officers shall hold their offices up to the regular Outh admuis time fixed by charter for the election of the same, and until their successors are duly elected and qualified. The oath of office may be administered by any officer of the State who is authorized by law to administer the same.

Compensation

of Managers.

Ib., 9.

Bar-rooms

SEC. 11. The Managers of Election shall receive, as compensation for their services, the sum of two dollars per day, for the time actually employed in such election, and, also, for the time employed in the registration of voters.

SEC. 12. All bar-rooms and drinking saloons in the town or city to be closed on where such election is held shall be closed on the days of election ;

election day.

Penalty

selling liquors for

on that day.

Ib., 10.

and any person who shall sell to any person any intoxicating drinks on the day of election shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be fined in a sum not less than one hundred dollars nor more than three hundred dollars, or be imprisoned for a period not less than one month nor more than six months.