New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-03-16

Superintendent is hereby authorized and empowered
to employ any number OF persons the Governor NAV
think necessary as his deputies fol- such time previous
to any election as the Governor may direct and the
said deputies shall be organized by said Snperintend-
ent in such manner as he may think proper and
adequate for the occasion and the said deputies on
the day Of election and during their term Of service
shall be subject TO the order and direction OF said
Superintendent, and obey all lawful commands issued
by him.
SEC. q. Bet further enacted, &C.. That said Chief
Deputies shall be citizens of the State that said
Superintendent, Chief Deputies and Deputies, before
entering upon their duties shall take the oath pre-
scrbed by the 10Th article Of the Constitution.
Deputies shall he commissioned BY the said superin-
tendent who is hereby authorized to administer the
oath Of office to them and he is further authorized
and empowered with the consent of the Governor, to
adopt such rules for the government and organization
OF said deputies as to him may seem proper Pro
rtded tine same be consistent with the constitution
and laws Of the United States and of this State and
the said Deputies are hereby required to obey said
rules and regulations; Preceded, the same may at
any time be altered or abolished at the pleasure Of
the Governor.
SEC: %. Be il further enacted, &c, That the said
Superintendent Of Elections shall have the mower to
appoint any number Of extraordinary deputies from
amongst the citizens Of the parish of Orleans to pro-
tect the approaches to the polls keep order thereat
and secure free access to and egress from said polls
and any citizen between the age of twenty-one and
fifty years refusing to perform such duty, whenever
thereunto Summoned, shall be subject to fine of not
less than one hundred nor more than five hundred
dollars, recoverable before any court Of competent
Jurisdiction, in the name and for the benefit Of the
State Of Louisiana and in default Of payment there
of said citizen shall stand committed in the parish
Jail for term not exceeding sixty days.
Sec. "a. BE it further enacted, &c, That il any
person in the parish of Orleans shall in breach of the
peace, disturb any Commissioner or Clerk Of Elec-
lions in the discharge of his duty any voter in
ercise of his right of suffrage or shall prevent any 70
fore or during election time, such person shall be
forthwith arrested by the said Superintendent any
OF his deputies or extraordinary deputies, and in
stantly confined in the police or parish JAIL and shall
upon conviction thereof be sentenced to not less than
six months nor more than three years Imprisonment
at hard labor in the pententiary and shall be forever
deprived of his right of suffrage Prorided, hoto-
erer That any person so arrested if lawful voter,
shall be permitted to vote before being confined.
Sec. rs. Be itfurther enacted &c, That any per
son wully resisting, or in any manner interfering
with the authority Of said Superintendent or his
deputies, or extraordinary deputies, shall be deemed
guilty Of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof
shall be punished by fine of not less than five hun
dred dollars and imprisoned at hard labor for one year
in the Pententiary, and it shall be the duty OF the
Attorney General, in person, to conduct all prose
cutons under this secton and said prosecutions shall
be tried in preference % all otherscases.
4 SEC. IS. Be it further enacted, &C., That when
any person shall be arrested the day Of the cleo
ton by the said Superintendent or his Deputies OF
extraordinary deputies, said person shall not be re-
leased from imprisonment by bail or otherwise until
the following morning unless it be by order Of the
Superintendent any of his chief deputies or by
writ of habeas corpus.
SEC. %. Be ii further enacted. &C.. That said Su-
perintendent shall commission his chief deputies. and
their commissions shall specify their seniority rank;
and it is hereby declared that in the event of the
death, resignation absence, sickness inability OF
act, from any whatever the said chief deputies
shall succeed to the duties and powers of the said
Superintendent according to the seniority of rank
en- hat
senior chief deputy shall first succeed and in OF
his death. resignation absence, sickness, inability
to act, the second chief deputy shall next succeed,
and so to the last and each chief deputy thus
succeeding in his turn is hereby authorized and EN-
powered to assume and perform all the duties of Su-
perntendent, and exercise all the powers vested in
him by virtue of this Act, until the vacancy of Super
intendent is filled Or the Superintendent presents
himself and resumes the duties of his office.
Sec. 49, Be it further enacted, &C., That any
deputy employed by the said Superintendent, except
the chief and extraordinary deputies, shall be emit
tied to receive during the time he is in actGal service
under the command and direction Of the Sperinterd
ent, ten dollars for each day of actual service.
. SEC. 20. Be it further enacted, &c, That the Su
perintendent shall keep in his office register of TIKI
n names of the persons employed by him deputies
and of the length of time each has served and shall
furnish each deputy when discharged with certifi
cate Of his employment and the length OF time hs
may have remained in his service, which shall be
ceived by the Auditor of Public Accounts suieen
n evidence upon which to audit and allow the claim
Il said deputy for his pay.
ID SEC. 80. Be it further enacted, &C., That one
half of the expense incurred for the purpose of carry
Il ing into effect the provisions of this Act except thos
E. otherwise provided for, shall be charged to and
paid by the city of New Orleans, and the Treasure
of the State is hereby authorized and required tn
LIST day of January Of each and every year deman
of the city of New Orleans the payment of onehaf
ii whatever appropriation may be expended for tn
d salaries of the deputies and officers aforesaid.
Sec. 81. Be it further enacted, &C., That the sail
Superintendent for the purpose of preserving orde
and preventing riots and tumults, is hereby author
lied to cause to be closed on election days all groc
shops and barrooms in the city of New Orleans an
any keeper owner of bar-room or grog-shop il
said city refusing failing to comply with the pre-
i clamation of said Superintendent published in tw
newspapers in the city of New Orleans requirin
grOg-shops and bar-rooms to be closed on the day
election, shall forfeit and pay fine of two hundre
dollars. recoverable before any court of competen
, jurisdiction, the payment of which fine shall, afte
, Judgment, be enforced by Imprisonment, not ex
ceeding sixty days.
SEC. 80. Be it further enacted &c, That the ofc
expenses of the Central Board of Commissioners, no
exceeding one thousand dollars shall be paid propo
. tionately by the city of New Orleans and the Polio
Jury of the parish of Orleans the right bank of tn
river Mississippi, upon the warrant of the PRESIDENT
said Board, as expressed in the eleventh section.
SEC SO. Be ii further enacted &c., That this Ac
shall take effect from and after its passage, and
! laws and parts of laws inconsistent herewith ar
y hereby repealed,