Speeches at the Constitutional Convention: With the Right of Suffrage Passed by the Constitutional ConventionSmalls, Robert
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Speeches at the Constitutional Convention: With the Right of Suffrage Passed by the Constitutional Convention
Smalls, Robert
African Americans -- Politics and government; African Americans -- Suffrage; South Carolina. Constitutional Convention (1895)
(b) Registration, which shall provide for the enrollment of every
elector once in ten years and also an enrollment during each and every
year of every elector not previously registered under the provisions on
this article.
(c) Up to January 1, 1898, all male persons of voting age applying for
registration who can read any section in this Constitution submitted
to them by the registration officer, or understand and explain it when
read to them by the registration officer shall be entitled to register
and become electors. A separate record of all persons registered before
January 1, 1898, sworn to by the registration officer shall be filed,
one copy with the clerk of court and one in the office of the secretary
of the state, on or before February 1, 1898, and such persons shall
remain during life qualified electors unless disqualified by the other
provisions of this article. The certificate of the clerk of court or
Secretary of State shall be sufficient evidence to establish the right
of said citizens to any subsequent registration and the franchise under
the limitations herein imposed.
(d) Any person who shall apply for registration after January 1st,
1898, if otherwise qualified, shall be registered; provided, that he
can both read and write any section of this Constitution submitted to
him by the registration officer, or can show that he owns and has paid
all taxes collectible during the previous year on property in this
State assessed at $300 or more.
(e) Managers of elections shall require of every elector offering to
vote at any election, before allowing him to vote, 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 taxes shall be
conclusive proof of the payment thereof.
(f) The general assembly shall provide for issuing to each duly
registered elector a certificate of registration and shall provide for
the renewal of such certificate when lost, mutilated or destroyed, if
the applicant is still a qualified elector under the provisions of this
Constitution, or if he has been registered as provided in subsection
(c).
SEC. 5. Any person denied registration shall have the right to appeal
to the Court of Common Pleas or any judge thereof, and thence to the
Supreme Court, to determine his right to vote under the limitations
imposed in this article, and on such appeal the hearing shall be de
novo and the General Assembly shall provide by law for such appeal and
for the correction of illegal and fraudulent registration, voting and
all other crimes against the election laws.
SEC. 6. The following persons are disqualified from being registered or
voting:
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