New Orleans daily crescent., 1857-07-27

to employ any number of persons the Governor may
think necessary as his Deputies for such time previous
to any election as the Governor may direct and the
SAID deputies shall be organized by said Supsrintend
ent in such manner as he may think proper and
adequate for the occasion and the said deputies,
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. 81 Be further enacted &C., That said Chief
Deputies shall be citizens of the State and that said
Superintendent Chief Deputies and Deputies before
entering upon their duties shall take the oath pre-
scribad by the Goth article Of the Constitution;
SEC. %. Be further enacted, &C.. That the said
Deputies shall be 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
pide, the 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 Provided, the same may at
any time be altered or abolished, at the pleasure of
the Governor.
SEC. %. Be it further enacted, &C., That the said
Superintendent of Elections shall have the power 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 therea
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 a term not exceeding sixty days.
SEC "a. BE ii further enacted, &C., That if any
person in the parish of Orleans SHALL in breach Of the
peace, disturb any Commissioner or Clerk of Elec-
tions in the discharge Of his duty or any voter in
ercise of his right of suffrage, shall prevent any vo-
ter from exercising his right OF suffrage, whether be-
fore or during election time, such person shall be
forthwith arrested by the said Superintendent or any
of his deputies, or extraordinary deputies and in
stantly confined in the police parish jail and shall,
six months nor more than three years imprisonment
at hard labor in the penitentary and shall be forever
deprived of his right of suffrage; Prorided, ho,o-
ere, That any person 50 arrested, if lawful voter
shall be permitted to vote before being confined.
! SEC 25. Be it further enacted, &C., That any per-
son wiliuly resisting, or in any interfering
with the authority of said Superintendent or his
deputies extraordinary deputies shall be deemed
guilty Of misdemeanor, and on convection thereof
shall be punished by fine of not less than five hun
dred dollars and imprisoned at hard labor for year
in the Penitenary 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 to all other cases.
| SEC. 2G. Be ii further enacted, &C., That when
any person shall be arrested on the day of the cleo
ton by the said Superintendent or his deputies,
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 or any of his chief deputies, or by
| writ of habeas corpus.
Sic. 27. Be it further enacted &C.. That said Su-
perintendent shall commission his chief deputies and
their commissions shall specify their seniority of rank
and it is hereby declared that in the event of the
death, resignation, absence, sickness or inability to
act from any cause whatever the said chief deputies
shall succeed to the duties and powers of the said
Superintendent according to the seniority of rank ex
pressed in their respective commissions. that the
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
perintendent, and exercise all the powers vested in
him by virtue of this Act, until the vacancy Of Super
nterdent is filed or the Superintendent presents
himself and resumes the duties of his office.
Sec. 2S. Be it further enacted, &c, That any
deputy employed by the said Superintendent, except
the chief and extraordinary deputies, shall be ent-
tied to receive during the time he is in actual service,
under the command and direction of the Spernterd-
ent, ten dollars for each day of actual service.
SEC. 30. Be it further enacted &c, That the Su-
perintendent shall keep in his office register of the
names of the persons employed by him as deputies,
and Of the length of time each has served, and shall
furnish each deputy when discharged with certif-
cate OF his employment and the length OF time he
may have remained in his service, which shall be re-
ceiyed by the Auditor of Public Accounts sufficient
evidence upon which to audit and allow the claim of
said deputy for his pay.
SEC. 80. Be it further enacted, &c, That one
Hall Ol lLe vi
ing into effect the provisions of this Act except those
otherwise provided for, shall be charged to and be
paid by the city of New Orleans, and the Treasurer
of the State is hereby authorized and required on the
st day of January of each and every year. to demand
of the city of New Orleans the payment of onehaf of
whatever appropriation may be expended for the
salaries of the deputies and officers aforesaid.
Sec 81. BE it further enacted, &C., That the said
Superintendent for the purpose Of preserving order
and preventing riots and tumults, is hereby author
lied to to be closed on election days all grog
shops and barrooms in the city of New Orleans and
any keeper or owner of bar-rOom or grOg-shop in
said city refusing or failing to comply with the pro-
i camaon of said Superintendent, published in two
newspapers in the city of New Orleans, requiring
grogshops and harrooms to be closed on the day of
election, shall forfeit and pay fine of two hundred
dollars, recoverable before any court OF competent
jurisdiction the payment of which fine SHALL after
Judgment, be enforced by imprisonment not ex-
ceedng sixty days.
SEC. 80. Be further enacted &C., That the Office
expenses of the Central Board of Commissioners not
exceeding one thousand dollars, shall be paid proper
tonately by the city of New Orleans and the Police
Jury of the parish of Orleans on the right bank of the
river Mississippi. upon the warrant of the President of
said Board, as expressed in the eleventh section.
SEC. 80. Be ii further enacted &C., That this Act
shall take effect from and after its passage, and all
laws and parts of laws inconsistent herewith are.
) Speaker of the House Of Rrepresentstiyes.
(Sgned) c. H. MOUT0N,
> Lieutenant .Governor and President of the Senate
+ (Ssued] ROBERT c. WICKLTFFE,
Governor Of the State of Louisiana.
A true copy:
| oF Slate