New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-05-18

said deputies shall be organized by said Superintend
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.
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-
| scrbed by the Goth article of the Constitution
SEC. %. Be itturther enacted, &c. That the said
Deputies shall be commissioned by the said Supern.
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
Uided 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; Provided, the same may at
any time be altered Or abolished at the pleasure of
| the Governor.
| Sec 49, 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 thereat
and 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
thereunto summoned, shall be subject to fine of not
less than one hundred nor more than five hundred
UelOTe any Coult vi eouiPeteuI
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 II any
person in the parish of Orleans SHALL in breach of the
| peace, disturb any Commissioner or Clerk OF Elec-
tons in the discharge of his duty Or any voter in ex-
ercse of his right of suffrage or 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 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 penitentiay and shall be forever
deprived of his right of suffrage; Provided, holc-
euer, 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-
wltully resisting, in any manner interfering
with the authority of said Superintendent or his
deputies, Or extraordinary deputies, shall be deemed
guilty of msdemeanor and on conviction thereof
shall be punished by fine of not less than i've hun
bred dollars and imprisoned at hard labor for one year
in the Penitentiary and it shall be the duty of the
Attorney General, in person, to conduct all prose.
cutions under this section, and said prosecutions shall
be tried in preference to all other cases.
Sec. 26. 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 or
extraordinary deputies, said person shall not be
leased from Imprisonment by bail 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.
Sec. 81 Be it further enacted, &C., That said Su-
perintenden shall commission his chief deputies and
their commissions shall specify their seniority of rank;
and it is hereby declared that in the event Q! the
DEATH resignation absence sickness or 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
pressed in their respective commissions so that the
senior chief deputy shall first succeed and in case of
his death, resignation absence sickness, inability
to act the second chief deputy shall next succeed,
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
intendent is filled or the Superintendent presents
himself and resumes the duties of his office.
Sec. %. Be it further enacted, &C., That any
deputy employed by the said Superintendent except
the chief and extraordinary deputies shall be enti-
tied to receive during the time he is in actual service,
under the command and direction of the SperinteEd-
ent, ten dollars for each day Of actual service.
Sec. 80. 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 certi-
cate of his employment and the length Of time he
may have remained in his service, which shall be re-
ceived 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
half of the expense incurred for the purpose of carry
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, the
LIST day of January of each and every year. to demand
of the city of New Orleans the payment of half
! whatever appropriation may be expended for the
salaries of the deputies and officers aforesaid.
SEC 81. Be it further enacted, Sc, That the sale
Superintendent for the purpose of preserving order
and preventing riots and tumults is hereby author
lied to cause to be closed election days all grog
shops and barrooms in the city of New Orleans ant
any keeper owner Of bar-room grog-shOp ir
said city refusing falling to comply with the pro
camaton Of said Superintendent, published in two
newspapers in the city Of New Orleans, requiring
grogs shops and barroOms to be closed on the day o
election, shall forfeit and pay fine of two hundred
dollars, recoverable before any court of competen
jurisdiction the payment of which fine SHALL afte
Judgment, be enforced by imprisonment not ex
ceedng sixty days.
Sec. 49, Be it further enacted &C., That the Office
expenses of the Central Board of Commissioners no
exceeding thousand dollars shall be paid proper
Jury of the parish of Orleans on the right bank of tn
river Mississippi upon the warrant of the President
said Board, as expressed in the eleventh section.
SEC. 80. Be further enacted, &C., That this Ac
shall take effect from and after its passage and al
: laws and parts of laws inconsistent herewith ar.
; hereby repealed.
y GSigned) W. W. PCGH
Speaker of the House Of Rrcpresen,aycs.
L (Signed) G. II. MOTION
y Lieutenant Governor and President senate.
(Signec) ROBERT C. WICKLIFFE,
e Governor of the State of Louisiana.
ASDKEw s. HEBRON, Secretary of State