New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-03-14

the ingress to and egess from the polls to preserve
tranquility and order during elections; TO prevent
and suppress riots, tumut, violence, disorder, and
any other improper practice tending to the intmi.
in general to take that all elections are con-
Quoted that the privilege of free suffrage may be sup
ported, and the constitutional rights Of the citizens
shall not be impaired or defeated by violence, tumnlt
intimidation or other improper practices.
SEC. 20. Be it further enacted, &C., That the said
Superintendent is hereby authorized and empowered
to employ any number Of persons the Governor nay
think necessary his deputies for such time previous
to any election the Governor may direct; and the
said deputies shall be organized by said SHperinend
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. u
Deputies shall be citizens Of the State and that ad
Superintendent, Chief Deputies and Deputies before
entering upon their duties, shall take the oath pre-
scribed by the 10Th article OF the Constitution.
SEC. a. Be nfurther 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-
cided, the 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 Prorided, the same may at
any time be altered or abolished at the pleasure of
the Governor. tfs7
SEC. %. Be L 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 thereat
and secure free to and egress from said polls
and any citizen between the age Of twenty-one and
fifty years refusing to perform such duty whenever
Less than hundred mo thar hunf7r
dollars, recoverable before any court oe competent
Jurisdiction, in the name and for the benefit Of the
State Of Louisiana and in default q payment there
of said citizen shall stand committed in the parish
jail for a term not exceeding sixty days.
SEC. "a. Be 1t further enacted, &C., That if any
person in the parish of Orleans shall in breach of the
ons in the discharge Of his duty, any voter in ex
ercise of his rghto Of suffrage, or shall prevent any vo
ter from exercising his right Of suffrage, whether be-
,oIe OF during election time such person shall be
OF his deputies. or extraordinary deputies and in
stantly confined in the police parish JAIL and shall
upon conviction thereof be sentenced tonot less than
sx months nor more than three years imprisonment
at hard labor in the pententiay, and shall be forever
deprived of his right of suffrage; Provided, ho,r-
erer, That any person % arrested, if lawful voter
shall be permitted to y0te before being confined.
i SEC. 25. Be itfu,ther enacted, &c. That any per-.
son wully resisting, in any manner interfering
with the authority of said Superintendent or his
deputies or extraordinary deputies shall be deemed
4 guilty OF msdemeanor, and on conviction thereof
shall be punished by fine Of not less than five hun
dred dollars and imprisoned at hard labor for year
in the Penitentiary and it shall be the duty Of the
Attorney General in person, to conduct all prose-
cutions under this secton and said prosecutions shall
be tried in preference to all other cases. -.5
SEC. 26. Be il further enacted, &c. That when
any person shall be arrested the day of the cleo
ton by the said Superintendent or his deputies or
extraordinary deputies said person shall not be
leased from Imprisonment, by bail or otherwise uptl
the following morning, unless it be by order of the
1npn n htr af 1ar tfac t,,
writ of habeas corpus.
SEC. 81. Be it further enacted &C., That said su-
perintenden shall commission his chief deputies and
their commissions shall specify their seniority of ranks
and it is hereby declared that in the event of the
death, resignation absence, sickness inability to
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 ex-
pressed in their respective commissions, that the
senior chief deputy shall first succeed and in OF
his DEATH resignation, absence, sickness, inability
and SO on 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
y y inendent is filled the Superintendent presents
i himself and resumes the duties Of his office.
Sec. IS. Be it further enacted, &C., That any
deputy employed by the said Superintendent, except
= the chief and extraordinary deputies, shall be enfi
tied to receive during the time he is in actual service
! under the command and direction of the Spernterd
eut, ten uUilaIS lOT eaCE Qay Oh actuai service.
!, SEC 20. Be it further enacted, &C., That the Su
- perntendent shall keep in his office register of the
y names of the persons employed by him deputies
and Of the length of time each has served and shal
y y furnish each deputy when discharged with acertif
: cate OF his employment and the length of time he
may have remained in his SERVICE which shall be re
ceved by the Auditor of Public Accounts as sufficient
evidence upon which to audit and allow the claim o
said deputy for his pay. sS
! SEC. so. Be it further enacted, &c. That one
half OF the expense incurred for the purpose of carry
ing into effect the provisions of this Act except thos
paid by the city of New Orleans and the Treasurer
of the State is hereby authorized and required th,
day of January Of each and every year to demand
OF the city of New Orleans the payment of onehalf
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 tunults, is hereby author
lied to cause to be closed election days all grog
shops and barrooms in the city of New Orleans and
! any keeper or owner Of a barroom or grogshop in
said city refusing or failing to comply with the pro
clamaon of said Superintendent published in two
newspapers in the city of New Orleans requiring
grogshops and barrooms to be closed on the day d
election, shall forfeit and pay fine of two hundred
dollars, recoverable before any court of competent
Jurisdiction, the payment of which fine shall, aftel
; Judgment, be enforced by Imprisonment, not ex
!, ceedng sixty days.
SEC 80. Be it further enacted &C., That the Office
expenses of the Central Board of Commissioners NOT
exceeding one thousand dollars shall be paid propor
, tonately by the city of New Orleans and the Police
Jury of the parish Of Orleans the right bank of tht
river Mississippi upon the warrant of the President Of
! said Board as expressed in the eleventh section.
SEQ. 3s. Be it further enacted, SC, That this Act
shall take effect from and after its passage and all
laws and parts of laws inconsistent herewith are
! hereby repealed.
United States Senate-Special Session.
s54s Wa
FRIDAY, March g. ls57.-Mr. Seward presented
the petition of certain subjects of her Majesty the
e Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, relating to q
d convention signed at Paris on the 18th of Anril