New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-02-03
An Act

To. PREVENT 1LLEGAL ToTiNts IN THErlITY OF
+ NEW0RLEANs, AND TO PROMOTE rrrE coSvf-
NIENCE OF Legal. VOTERS.
rhisis an important act, introduced into the
House by Mr. Joel G. Sever, Something of this
kind is very much needed, but our limited OBJ
portunity for investigating the details of this
bill will not permit us to say that this is ex-
actly the thing required. We must content
ourselves with brief synopsis, and reserve COM
ment for some future occasion Inv
Sec. !. Provides for dividing the city into
convenient number of districts, e every district
| to be entire within ward, and to contain, as
near as may be, five hundred voters; the dis
tricts to be designated by numbers, to be accu
rately described in maps published and dis
played in public places, and furnished to the
inspectors; polls to be held at some point CEN
trail to the district. The General Council, at
least ten days preceding an election is to APP
point three inspectors for each district the
commissioners to fill any vacancies which may
occur among the inspectors.
Sec. ,. After this preliminary organization,
qualified voters are to elect inzeyery ward three
commissioners of registry and three inspectors
In case of failure to elect, from any cause what
ever, the General Council shall determine by
lot who is to be declared elected In ease of Il
vacancy after election, the aldermen of the
ward and the commissioners are Jointly TO make
an election
Sec 5Fon the first day of September, in every
year. the Commissioners of Registry in every
Ward shall, in some public place, make a per-
feet list of qualified electors and the districts
i'll which they are entitled to vote; public
notice to be given in advance: public session to
be held six judicial hours for six days following.
and from 8 P. NJ. to 9 p. Nj. on the three Satur
days following N.
Sec A. The Registry list shall alphabetically
give the name, surname, occupation, residence.
ETC., of qualified voters
Sec .. The Commissioners may challenge.
and fraudulent registry will then be punished
as perjury.
Sec 8. A refusal to answer questions nut Oh
challenge shall be minuted; no one to be resis
tered unless he is or will within legal limits he
come resident in the district in which he claims
to vote.
Sec. L. Any person registering himself or
voting in more than one Ward or district, Oh.
causing any other to do so, to be punished for
misdemeanor by a fine of not less than $50 nor
more than $500, or by imprisonment in the
Parish prison not less than three months nor
more than two years, or by both, at the discre
ton of the Court
= Sec. .. The Registry to be completed by the
second Saturday of October, one hundred COPIES
to be printed and pos ted up in ten conspicuous
places in each district, other copies to be dstri
buted; to give notice on said lists, that. during
the ensuing week they will at their office, re-
ceive written objections, sworn to, to their reiec
ton, emission or admission of any one, and also
On three successive Saturdays, from 8 A. NJ to
p. NJ, and from p. NJ, to { P. NJ. Notice to
be given to persons objected to-
Sec. o. Certified Registry lists to be filed in
office of the mayors clerk, and given to the in
spectors of elections.
See 10. Commissions of Registry to sit on the
oay OIL and the day before the election from, the
'tstag to the setting eff the sun, to decide ON
'he claims OF non-registered persons who can
9no" soou cause why they could not be regis
sefee ~, u. the time before appointed; the same
TO be observed in registering, A
No'er 10 possess the usual qualifications The |
h''ii'e anu residence of witness to he renistered
Inc registry to be permanent record for Tho /
use of commissioners '
Sec. il. The laws relative to elections sxc,,>t
so far as modified by this act, to remain in an
force. Inspectors and clerks of elections NOT b.
be entitled to any compensation,
Sec. II. Clerks to check off the name of vo,.,..
If the certified lists; no one to vote whose por,o
not on one of them, unless he have the certi6-
ate before provided for. s /;
Sec H. The registry or certificate to be con-
lusiVe OF the right to vote; no question to he !,